VERIFYING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
VERIFY is a Research and Innovation project funded by the European Commission under the H2020 programme. VERIFY develops a system to estimate greenhouse gas emissions to support countries' emission reporting to the UN Climate Change Convention Secretariat. The emissions are estimated based on land, ocean and atmospheric observations. The project focuses on the three major greenhouse gases responsible for global warming: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) (https://verify.lsce.ipsl.fr/).
EDGAR yearly contributes to the VERIFY project with sector specific global emissions fluxes of CH4 and N2O with monthly time resolution and 0.1x0.1 degree spatial resolution from the year 2005 to most recent years.
The latest EDGAR contribution to VERIFY is based on the EDGARv6.0 pre-release which is an update of the EDGARv5.0 data (https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=50_GHG) and consists of:
Notes: Monthly emission gridmaps are expressed in kg substance /m2 /s for the .nc files.
Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Oreggioni, G., Muntean, M., Schaaf, E., Solazzo, E.: EDGARv6.0 pre-release, contribution to the H2020 VERIFY project, 2020, https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_verify_h2020.
Crippa, M., Oreggioni, G., Guizzardi, D., Muntean, M., Schaaf, E., Lo Vullo, E., Solazzo, E., Monforti-Ferrario, F., Olivier, J.G.J., Vignati, E., Fossil CO2 and GHG emissions of all world countries - 2019 Report, EUR 29849 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2019, ISBN 978-92-76-11100-9, doi:10.2760/687800, JRC117610.
FAOSTAT: Statistics Division of the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN,Live animal numbers, crop production, total nitrogen fertiliser consumption statistics till 2018, available at: http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home, last access: December 2019.
For more information or data: JRC-EDGAR@ec.europa.eu