Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions
The Trends in global CO2 emissions report is one in a series of annual publications by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). After the web reviews that were published in 2007 and 2008, the CO2 report series started in 2009, providing up-to-date knowledge on the trend in global CO2 emissions related to fossil fuel combustion and cement production. These reports include CO2 emission estimates made by PBL and JRC on the basis of energy consumption data published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and – for the most recent years – those published by BP. For a quick overview of the most important figures, check out our one page website.
The estimations are also based on production data on cement, lime, ammonia and steel, as well as on emissions, per country, from the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) which was developed jointly by JRC and PBL.
Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: 2021 report
- Rapport | 30 May 2022Trends in Global CO2 and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions; 2021 Summary Report
- Document | 4 October 2022 | PDF, 2.01 MBdownload the report (PDF, 3 MB)
- Document | 4 October 2022 | ODS, 2.48 MBdownload the dataset (ODS, 2 MB)
- Linkmore information on CO2 emissions in the JRC 2021 report: booklet with sectoral CO2 emissions of all countries
Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: 2020 report
- Rapport | 21 December 2020Trends in Global CO2 and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions; 2020 Report
- Document | 21 December 2020 | PDF, 2.6 MBdownload the report (PDF, 3 MB)
- Document | 21 December 2020 | ODS, 1.76 MB download the dataset (ODS, 2 MB)
- Linkmore information on CO2 emissions in the JRC 2020 report: booklet with sectoral CO2 emissions of all countries
Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: 2019 report
- Rapport | 3 February 2020Trends in Global CO2 and Total Greenhouse Gas emissions; 2019 report
- Document | 26 May 2020 | PDF, 2.2 MB download the report (PDF, 2 MB)
- Document | 26 May 2020 | PDF, 272.54 KBlist of errata (PDF, 273 KB)
- Rapport | 4 December 2019Trends in Global CO2 and Total Greenhouse Gas emissions. Summary of the 2019 Report
- Document | 4 December 2019 | PDF, 267.68 KBdownload the summary (PDF, 0.3 MB)
- Document | 26 May 2020 | ODS, 2.03 MBdownload the dataset (ODS, 2 MB)
Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: 2018 report
- Nieuws | 5 December 2018Growth in global greenhouse gas emissions resumed in 2017
- Nieuws | 5 December 2018Growth in global greenhouse gas emissions resumed in 2017
- Rapport | 5 December 2018Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: 2018 report
- Document | 16 September 2019 | PDF, 6.5 MBdownload the report (PDF, 7 MB)
- Document | 16 September 2019 | ODS, 2.02 MBdownload dataset 'tables global CO2 and greenhouse gases 1990-2017' (ODS, 2 MB)
- Document | 16 September 2019 | ODS, 137.82 KB download dataset 'tables global CO2 greenhouse gases 1990-2017 Appendix C and D (ODS, 138 KB)
- Linkmore information on CO2 emissions in JRC 2018 report: booklet with pictures and tables of sectoral emissions for all countries
Trends in Global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: 2017 Report
- Nieuws | 27 September 2017Greenhouse gas emission levels continued to rise in 2016
- Publicatie | 12 December 2017Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: 2017 report
- Document | 16 September 2019 | PDF, 3.95 MBdownload the report (PDF, 4 MB)
- Publicatie | 28 September 2017Trends in global CO2 and total greenhouse gas emissions: Summary of the 2017 report
- Document | 16 September 2019 | PDF, 435.83 KBdownload the summary (PDF, 446 KB)
- Document | 16 September 2019 | ODS, 1.43 MBdownload dataset 'tables global co2 and greenhouse gases 1990-2016' (ODS, 1.4 MB)
- Document | 16 September 2019 | ODS, 28.47 KBdownload dataset 'electricity production by type' (ODS, 29 KB)
Trends in Global CO2 emissions: 2016 Report
- Nieuws | 6 December 2016Global decrease in coal burning leads to stalling of CO2 emissions in 2015
- Publicatie | 6 December 2016Trends in global CO2 emissions: 2016 Report
- Document | 16 September 2019 | PDF, 1.32 MBdownload the report (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Document | 16 September 2019 | XLS, 5.11 MBdownload the data (xls, 5.3 MB)
- LinkCO2 time series 1990-2015 per region and country
- Linkto the interactive