Editorial Process

Every figure on PlainEmissions traces back to a named public source, computed by documented pipelines. PlainEmissions publishes under one organizational byline rather than personal ones: the publisher is accountable for the data framing, methodology, and corrections you read here.

Every figure published on PlainEmissions is traced back to its official public source and computed by deterministic pipelines, not hand-entered. Our methodology sets out exactly how each dataset is sourced, computed, and refreshed, and the about page explains how we handle corrections when a reader flags something. The byline below is the publishing organization itself, not an individual writer: these pages are generated from documented pipelines rather than individually reported, so accountability for the framing and for correcting it sits with the publisher.

PlainEmissions is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.

According to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the EDGAR v8.0 dataset our editorial process work from spans 54 years of country- and sector-level emissions data, 1970 through 2023, see our methodology for the full source list and licensing.

Download the EU EDGAR country extract cited on this page: country-emissions-statistics.csv (same CSV as /statistics; CC BY 4.0).