Description
To aid the understanding of how urbanisation has influenced anthropogenic CO2 and air pollutant emissions across all world regions, we make use of the latest developments of the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research. In this study, we systematically analyse over 5 decades of emissions from different types of human settlements (from urban centres to rural areas) for different sectors in all countries. Our analysis shows that by 2015, urban centres were the source of a third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gases and most of the air pollutant emissions. The high levels of both population and emissions in urban centres therefore call for focused urban mitigation efforts.
Contact
Contributors
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- Michele Melchiorri
- 0000-0002-3009-8868
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- Monica Crippa
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- Andreas Fuentes Hutfilter
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- Diego Guizzardi
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- Enrico Pisoni
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- Efisio Solazzo
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- Antoine Guion
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- Marilena Muntean
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- Aneta Florczyk
- 0000-0001-8912-1500
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- Marcello Schiavina
- 0000-0003-3399-3400
How to cite
Melchiorri, Michele; Crippa, Monica; Fuentes Hutfilter, Andreas; Guizzardi, Diego; Pisoni, Enrico; Solazzo, Efisio; Guion, Antoine; Muntean, Marilena; Florczyk, Aneta; Schiavina, Marcello (2021): EDGAR_emissions_urban_areas. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/c0c49cd7-4a80-4a94-8c34-375289c12b2d
Keywords
air pollutants emissions greenhouse gas inventory mitigation urban
Data access
1970-1990-2005-2015 Emissions per sector, country and settlement area type are provided for CH4, CO, CO2, NH3, NOx, PM10, SO2
Publications
Geographic areas
Spatial coverage
Type | Value |
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GML | <gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2"> <gml:exterior> <gml:LinearRing> <gml:posList>-180 89.9 179.9 89.9 179.9 -90 -180 -90 -180 89.9</gml:posList> </gml:LinearRing> </gml:exterior></gml:Polygon> |
WKT | POLYGON ((-180 89.9, 179.9 89.9, 179.9 -90, -180 -90, -180 89.9)) |
Temporal coverage
From date | To date |
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1970-01-01 | 2015-01-01 |
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-10-04
- Modified date
- 2021-10-21
- Issued date
- 2021-01-01
- Landing page
- https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/urban
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Environment, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- irregular
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/c0c49cd7-4a80-4a94-8c34-375289c12b2d
- Popularity
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