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EDGAR v8.1 Global Mercury Emissions

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EDGARv8.1 provides emissions not only for the greenhouse gases and air pollutants per sector and country but also for toxic pollutants such as mercury.

EDGARv8.1_toxHg includes:

Total mercury (Hg)

and mercury species:

Gaseous elemental mercury (Hg0; Hg_G)

Gaseous oxidised mercury (Hg2+; Hg_D)

Particle-bound mercury (Hg-P; Hg_P)

Emissions from large scale biomass burning with Savannah burning, forest fires, and sources and sinks from land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) are excluded.

For the energy related sectors the activity data are primarily based on IEA data from IEA (2022) World Energy Balances, (www.iea.org), all rights reserved, as modified by Joint Research Centre, European Commission, whereas the activity data for the agricultural sectors originate primarily from FAO (2022) (https://www.fao.org/faostat). United States Geological Survey (USGS), UNFCCC and World Steel Association (worldsteel) recent statistics are also used for activity data. The emissions from Artisanal Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector were updated based on information from publicly available reports and scientific literature; it is foreseen a refinement of these emissions based on the information from official national reporting to the Minamata Convention on Mercury in the framework of the First Effectiveness Evaluation. Additional information can be found in Muntean et al. (2024, in preparation).

Compared to the previous EDGAR version, v4.tox2, the following major updates have been included:

Update of activity data up to 2022

Updates of technology penetration and abatement measures for power generation sector

New spatial proxies as described in Crippa et al. (2024).

Contributors

Andrea Simonati; Diego Guizzardi; Edwin Schaaf; Federico Pagani; Manjola Banja; Marilena Muntean; Monica Crippa; William Becker

How to cite

Muntean, Marilena; Crippa, Monica; Guizzardi, Diego; Pagani, Federico; Becker, William; Banja, Manjola; Schaaf, Edwin; Simonati, Andrea (2026): EDGAR v8.1 Global Mercury Emissions. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.38PQ6ZG; 10.2905/83b507d7-5218-4dc5-95f9-0ec36f073204 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/83b507d7-5218-4dc5-95f9-0ec36f073204

Keywords

emissionsglobalinventorymercurymonthly

Data access

EDGAR v8.1_TOX: Mercury emissions gridmaps
NetCDF

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Downloadable file

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Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

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No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

EDGAR v8.1_TOX: Mercury emissions time series
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Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

Spatial coverage

Temporal coverage

From date To date
1970-01-01 2022-01-01

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-edgar (at) ec.europa.eu
Contact webpage
https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ 
Update frequency
irregular

The event occurs at uneven intervals.

Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Environment

dataset theme covering the domain of environment, defined as the interaction of all living species, climate, weather, and natural resources that impact human survival and economic activity
Science and technology

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Geographical name(s)
World
Issued date
2024-01-01
Created date
03 Jun 2024 12:03
Modified date
04 Feb 2026 10:15
Landing page
https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_tox81 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/83b507d7-5218-4dc5-95f9-0ec36f073204
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