Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research, version v4.3.2 part I Greenhouse gases

The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) v4.3.2, partim Greenhouse gases compiles anthropogenic emissions data for CO2, CH4 and N2O based on international statistics and emission factors.  The version v4.3.2 of the EDGAR emission inventory provides global estimates, broken down to IPCC-relevant source-sector levels, from 1970  (the year of EU’s first Air Quality Directive) to 2012 (the end year of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (KP)). Strengths of EDGAR v4.3.2 include global geo-coverage (226 countries), continuity in time, and comprehensiveness in activities. Emission sources of the multiple gases include all human activities except the land-use, land-use change and forestry sector and are compiled following a bottom-up and IPCC-compliant approach. The dataset provides in addition to the complete timeseries 1970-2012 also annual and global gridmaps of 0.1 degree by 0.1 degree resolution for each source-sector and each year. For 2010 also 12 monthly gridmaps per source-sector are provided.