Guides · EDGAR 1970–2023
Emissions guides grounded in the live EDGAR corpus
According to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, EDGAR v8.0 publishes comparable country and sector inventories. These plain-language explainers cover CO₂-equivalent, source disagreement, LULUCF, and satellite verification against that same fact table.
How to use these guides
According to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre EDGAR v8.0 tables for 2023, China leads the tracked total on this site, and the top two economies account for about 47% of it.
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- guides in the set
- China
- #1 absolute · 15,970 Mt
- 47%
- top-two share
- 1970–2023
- year span in fact table
Hub stats refresh from the live EU EDGAR fact table. Guide bodies are editorial explainers; every chart queries the same corpus.
Answer first
According to JRC EDGAR v8.0 for 2023, China leads the tracked total, and the top two economies account for about 47% of it.
These pages explain units, source design, and framing choices so a country or sector page you open next has a comparable frame, not advocacy copy.
- Guides
- 7
- Corpus median year
- 2023
- Source on pages
- EDGAR
- Year span
- 1970–2023
Units · sources · framing · citation
Latest complete EDGAR year loaded
UNFCCC / TRACE documented as context
Historical depth in the fact table
Top-two concentration
2023 tracked total
Reading order
Start with CO₂-equivalent, then source disagreement, then LULUCF and satellite verification, so any ranking or country page has a comparable frame.
Hub stats above refresh from the live EU EDGAR fact table. Individual guide bodies are editorial explainers; every chart on a guide page queries the same corpus. See methodology for load steps and vintage.
CO2 Equivalent and GWP100 Explained
How methane, nitrous oxide, and F-gases convert to a common CO2-equivalent unit using IPCC AR6 GWP100, and why GWP20 answers differently for short-lived gases.
Why EDGAR and UNFCCC Disagree on the Same Country
Side-by-side design of EU EDGAR’s bottom-up model vs UNFCCC self-reported inventories, why disagreement is informative, not a bug.
LULUCF: The Most Disputed Emissions Sector
Why land-use carbon regularly disagrees by 50%+ across sources, and how PlainEmissions keeps LULUCF visible without folding it into a fake single total.
Climate TRACE Explained
What Climate TRACE measures, how ML fills sensor gaps, and why facility-level methane observation changes inventory verification.
How to Read an Emissions Time Series Without Being Misled
Per-capita vs absolute, consumption vs production, LULUCF in or out, six framing choices that flip whether a country looks like a leader.
IPCC Sector Taxonomy in Plain Language
A walk-through of the eight high-level IPCC sectors and how this site maps EDGAR rows into the canonical hierarchy.
Using PlainEmissions Data for Research and Reporting
Citation conventions, license attribution, and the methodological caveats every journalist or ESG analyst should disclose.
Methodology
Guides explain emissions concepts using the same EDGAR-derived tables PlainEmissions ranks and compares. Live hub stats refresh with the corpus; we do not invent UNFCCC or Climate TRACE totals on country pages.
When methods disagree (LULUCF, methane, agriculture), we document the spread rather than picking a single “true” number.
Source: European Commission Joint Research Centre EDGAR v8.0 greenhouse-gas inventories · 2023 Guide hub stats are live EDGAR corpus aggregates; individual guides also cite named sources where EDGAR is not the subject.
Download the country-level EDGAR extract referenced by these guides: country-emissions-statistics.csv. National reference on statistics.
According to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the EDGAR v8.0 dataset publishes country- and sector-level greenhouse-gas inventories on a common bottom-up model. Every figure on PlainEmissions is rebuilt from that release; no number is typed in by an editor. Guide hub stats are live EDGAR corpus aggregates; guide pages explain methodology using the same fact table. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of EDGAR 2023. EDGAR figures are production-based inventory totals for a published reference year (AR6 GWP100, LULUCF excluded on ranked surfaces) - not climate policy advice, real-time emissions, or a substitute for UNFCCC legal inventories.