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Greenhouse Gas Emissions at sub-national level

EDGAR_2024_GHG NUTS2

Introduction

The EDGAR GHG emission gridmaps represents an independent and reliable source of information to support the analysis and development of territorial policies at sub-national level in the field of climate action. Thanks to the continuous update and improvement of the accuracy of the spatial proxies used in the EDGAR database to downscale national emissions over a global gridmap, the regional NUTS2 GHG emissions produced by EDGAR over the European domain are used by DG REGIO in the EU Cohesion Reports (2022, 2024), by EUROSTAT in its Regional Yearbook (2024) and support the yearly cycle of the EU Semester.

Detailed information on the spatial proxies used in EDGAR and the downscaling methodology can be found in several scientific publications (Janssens-Maenhout et al., 2019; Crippa et al., 2021; Crippa et al., 2024b).


GHG emissions by NUTS2
GHG emissions by NUTS2

Annual totals by sector and NUTS2 (1990-2023)

Based on the EDGAR_2024_GHG emission gridmaps up to 2023 (Crippa et al. 2024a), NUTS2 emissions by sector and EU country are extracted.

NUTS2 definitions are based on EUROSTAT 2024 (release NUTS 2024)

EDGAR total GHG (CO2eq AR5) at NUTS2 by country and sector (1990-2023)
(EDGAR_2024_total_GHG_AR5_NUTS2_by_country_and sector_1990-2023_v3.zip)

EDGAR CO2, CH4, N2O, F-gases (CO2eq AR5) at NUTS2, country and sector (1990-2023)
(EDGAR_2024_GHGs_CO2eq_AR5_NUTS2_by_country_sector_1990-2023_v3.zip)

EDGAR CO2, CH4, N2O, F-gases at NUTS2, country and sector (1990-2023)
(EDGAR_2024_GHGs_NUTS2_by_country_sector_1990-2023_v3.zip)

Former versions of this dataset are available at this link.


Sources and references

Cohesion in Europe towards 2050. Eighth report on economic, social and territorial cohesion. Publications Office of the European Union, doi: 10.2776/624081, 2022. http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/cohesion-report

9th Cohesion Report shows that Cohesion Policy continues to narrow the gaps in EU regions and Member States. Publications Office of the European Union, doi:10.2776/264833, 2024. (link)

Eurostat regional yearbook - 2024 edition, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, doi:10.2785/174221, 2024.

EI, Energy Institute, 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy, 2024, https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review, Last access: July 2024.

FAOSTAT (2024), Statistics Division of the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN: www.fao.org/faostat, Last access May 2024.

Global Flaring and Methane Reduction Partnership (GFMR), 2012-2023 data for gas consumption for flaring, 2024, https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/gasflaringreduction/global-flaring-data#indicators-by-country, Last Access: June 2024.

IATA (2024), International Air Transport Association Statistics, www.iata.org/en/iata-repository/pressroom/fact-sheets/industry-statistics, 2024.

IEA World Energy Balances - 2023 Edition, www.iea.org, All rights reserved, as modified by Joint Research Centre, European Commission, 2023a.

IEA Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy - 2023 Edition, www.iea.org, 2023b.

IEA World energy balances: IEA family and beyond, April 2024 Edition, www.iea.org.

IFA (2024), Urea consumption (updates 2010-2019) and production (updates 2020) statistics, 2024, www.ifastat.org/.

USGS, USGS Commodity Statistics (May 2024), (www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/commodity-statistics-and-information), 2024.

WB (2024), data of GDP PPP, (constant 2017 international $) (expressed in 1000 US dollar, and adjusted to the Purchasing Power Parity of 2017) for 1990-2023, World Bank, July 2024.

World Steel Association, (worldsteel) (2024), Steel Statistical Yearbook 2024, https://worldsteel.org, 2024.

Janssens-Maenhout, G., Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Muntean, M., Schaaf, E., Dentener, F., Bergamaschi, P., Pagliari, V., Olivier, J. G. J., Peters, J. A. H. W., van Aardenne, J. A., Monni, S., Doering, U., Petrescu, A. M. R., Solazzo, E., and Oreggioni, G. D.: EDGAR v4.3.2 Global Atlas of the three major greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1970–2012, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 959–1002, doi:10.5194/essd-11-959-2019, 2019.

Monica Crippa, Diego Guizzardi, Enrico Pisoni, Efisio Solazzo, Antoine Guion, Marilena Muntean, Aneta Florczyk, Marcello Schiavina, Michele Melchiorri, Andres Fuentes Hutfilter: Global anthropogenic emissions in urban areas: patterns, trends, and challenges, Environ. Res. Lett. 16 074033, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac00e2, 2021.

Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Pagani, F., Banja, M., Muntean, M., Schaaf, E., Monforti-Ferrario, F., Becker, W., Quadrelli, R., Risquez Martin, A., Taghavi-Moharamli, P., Köykkä, J., Grassi, G., Rossi, S., Melo, J., Oom, D., Branco, A., San-Miguel, J., Manca, G., Pisoni, E., Vignati, E. and Pekar, F., GHG emissions of all world countries, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2024, doi:10.2760/4002897, JRC138862

Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Pagani, F., Schiavina, M., Melchiorri, M., Pisoni, E., Graziosi, F., Muntean, M., Maes, J., Dijkstra, L., Van Damme, M., Clarisse, L., and Coheur, P.: Insights into the spatial distribution of global, national, and subnational greenhouse gas emissions in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v8.0), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 2811–2830, doi:10.5194/essd-16-2811-2024, 2024.

Conditions of use

©European Union 2024, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG database, comprising IEA-EDGAR CO2, EDGAR CH4, EDGAR N2O and EDGAR F-gases version 2024. Unless otherwise noted, all material owned by the European Union is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. This means that reuse is allowed, provided that appropriate credit is given and any changes are indicated.

All emissions, except for CO2 emissions from fuel combustion, are from the EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG database comprising IEA-EDGAR CO2, EDGAR CH4, EDGAR N2O and EDGAR F-gases version 2024.

IEA-EDGAR CO2, a component of the EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG database version 2024 including or based on data from IEA (2023) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy, www.iea.org/data-and-statistics, as modified by the Joint Research Centre.

IEA-EDGAR CO2 data are based on data from IEA (2023) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy, www.iea.org/data-and-statistics, as modified by the Joint Research Centre, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Users of the IEA-EDGAR CO2 data should contact the IEA at compliance@iea.org if they wish to use such data outside the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.

Co-authorship and involvement of the EDGAR Community, which includes the IEA for fossil CO2 emissions, in the emission data analysis is highly appreciated. User's comments and requests can be sent via email to the authors. For IEA data, please refer to emissions@iea.org.

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How to cite

Crippa, Monica; Guizzardi, Diego; Pagani, Federico; Pisoni, Enrico; (2024): GHG Emissions at sub-national level (v3.0). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset]:doi:10.2905/D67EEDA8-C03E-4421-95D0-0ADC460B9658 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/d67eeda8-c03e-4421-95d0-0adc460b9658

How to cite the use of underlying data

EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, a collaboration between the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), the International Energy Agency (IEA), and comprising IEA-EDGAR CO2, EDGAR CH4, EDGAR N2O, EDGAR F-GASES version 2024 European Commission, JRC (Datasets). The complete citation of the EDGAR Community GHG Database is available in the 'Sources and References' section.

IEA-EDGAR CO2, a component of the EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG database version 2024 including or based on data from IEA (2023) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy, www.iea.org/data-and-statistics, as modified by the Joint Research Centre.

Users of the data are obliged to acknowledge the source of the data also with reference to the EDGARv2024 website (link) and/or relevant reports.

Contacts

For more information or data: JRC-EDGAR@ec.europa.eu.
For IEA data, please refer to emissions@iea.org or compliance@iea.org for terms questions.