CO2 emissions from fuel combustion, 2012 Edition

Part III: Greenhouse gas emissions

The information in Part III (with the exception of CO₂ emissions from fuel combustion) has been provided by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, using the Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) version 4.2 FT2010, developed jointly by JRC and PBL. The data in this book are designed to increase the understanding of the evolution of emissions of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases from 1971 to 2010, for more than 140 countries and regions, per sector and per fuel.

To complement the IEA’s work regarding CO₂ emissions from fuel combustion, this publication also includes EDGAR data on other CO₂ sources and on the five other greenhouse gases addressed by the Kyoto Protocol: CH₄, N₂O and the fluorinated gases HFCs, PFCs and SF₆. The complete data set provides global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to be used as a reference database for science and policy applications.

The emissions were calculated using international statistics and default methodologies and emission factors from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. Thus, they may differ from national emission inventories officially submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat.