History of EDGAR
About the EDGAR project:
Originally EDGAR (1992-2004) was developed by the National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM) [later, the environmental division involved was called the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency] and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) with as driving forces Jos Olivier (RIVM) and Jan Berdowski (TNO). In 2004, in order to facilitate continuation of EDGAR, a new project team has been formed composed of the original EDGAR team members of RIVM, now being part of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.
A new database structure has been developed at JRC IES. This new database structure allows calculating emissions by country, sector and includes specific technologies for combustion/processing and emission abatement measures. Furthermore, to facilitate both the use of EDGAR data in air pollution and climate modelling on different scales the country emissions are allocated to a 0.1x0.1 grid using newly developed 0.1 degree grid maps for a large variety of emission sources.
Archived datasets
Please refer to the corresponding archived datasets section.
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mission of the JRC is to provide customer-driven scientific and
technical support for the conception, development, implementation and
monitoring of EU policies. As a service of the European Commission, the
JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the
Union. Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common
interest of the Member States, while being independent of special
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