EDGAR v8.1 Global Air Pollutant Emissions

EDGARv8.1 provides emissions not only for the greenhouse gases per sector and country but also for the air pollutants:

Ozone precursor gases: Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen Oxides (NOX), Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds (NMVOC) and Methane (CH4)
Acidifying gases: Ammonia (NH3), Nitrogen oxides (NOX) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)
Primary particulates: Fine Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5) and Carbonaceous speciation (BC, OC)
Emissions from large scale biomass burning with Savannah burning, forest fires, and sources and sinks from land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) are excluded.

For the energy related sectors the activity data are primarily based on IEA data (2022) World Energy Balances, (www.iea.org), all rights reserved, as modified by Joint Research Centre, European Commission, whereas the activity data for the agricultural sectors originate primarily from FAO (2022) (www.fao.org/faostat).

Novelties of EDGARv8.1 compared to the previous EDGARv6.1 release are:

updates of all activity data up to 2022
updates of technology penetration, abatement measures and emission factors for power plant emissions and residential emissions in Europe
new spatial proxies as described in Crippa et al. (2024)