EDGARv8.1 provides emissions not only for the greenhouse gases per sector and country but also for the air pollutants:
Ozone precursor gases: Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen Oxides (NOX), Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds (NMVOC) and Methane (CH4)
Acidifying gases: Ammonia (NH3), Nitrogen oxides (NOX) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)
Primary particulates: Fine Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5) and Carbonaceous speciation (BC, OC)
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 (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) (www.fao.org/faostat).
Novelties of EDGARv8.1 compared to the previous EDGARv6.1 release are:
updates of all activity data up to 2022
updates of technology penetration, abatement measures and emission factors for power plant emissions and residential emissions in Europe
new spatial proxies as described in Crippa et al. (2024)
Alfredo Branco; Arnau Risquez Martin; Diego Guizzardi; Duarte Jacome Felix Oom; Edwin Schaaf; Elisabetta Vignati; Fabio Monforti Ferrario; Federico Pagani; Giacomo Grassi; Jesus San-Miguel; Joana Brandao De Melo; Manjola Banja; Marilena Muntean; Monica Crippa; Roberta Quadrelli; Simone Rossi; William Becker
Crippa, Monica; Guizzardi, Diego; Pagani, Federico; Banja, Manjola; Muntean, Marilena; Schaaf, Edwin; Becker, William; Monforti Ferrario, Fabio; Quadrelli, Roberta; Risquez Martin, Arnau; Grassi, Giacomo; Rossi, Simone; Brandao De Melo, Joana; Jacome Felix Oom, Duarte; Branco, Alfredo; San-Miguel, Jesus; Vignati, Elisabetta (2026): EDGAR v8.1 Global Air Pollutant Emissions. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.E1ZGQER PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/a3af16e4-21ac-420a-b98c-b78a9b7723be
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The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) provides emissions time series from 1970 until 2022 for GHGs for all countries for all anthropogenic sectors, with the exception of emissions and removals from land use and forestry, which are provided for the years 1990 to 2022. The report includes emissions from IEA-EDGAR CO2, EDGAR CH4, EDGAR N2O and EDGAR F-gases version 8.0 (2023). The report contributes to the Paris Agreement process with an independent and quantitative view of global GHG emissions.
| From date | To date |
|---|---|
| 1970-01-01 | 2022-01-01 |
