Scientific Data (Jun 2023)

Carbon Monitor Europe near-real-time daily CO2 emissions for 27 EU countries and the United Kingdom

  • Piyu Ke,
  • Zhu Deng,
  • Biqing Zhu,
  • Bo Zheng,
  • Yilong Wang,
  • Olivier Boucher,
  • Simon Ben Arous,
  • Chuanlong Zhou,
  • Robbie M. Andrew,
  • Xinyu Dou,
  • Taochun Sun,
  • Xuanren Song,
  • Zhao Li,
  • Feifan Yan,
  • Duo Cui,
  • Yifan Hu,
  • Da Huo,
  • Jean-Pierre Chang,
  • Richard Engelen,
  • Steven J. Davis,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Zhu Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02284-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Abstract With the urgent need to implement the EU countries pledges and to monitor the effectiveness of Green Deal plan, Monitoring Reporting and Verification tools are needed to track how emissions are changing for all the sectors. Current official inventories only provide annual estimates of national CO2 emissions with a lag of 1+ year which do not capture the variations of emissions due to recent shocks including COVID lockdowns and economic rebounds, war in Ukraine. Here we present a near-real-time country-level dataset of daily fossil fuel and cement emissions from January 2019 through December 2021 for 27 EU countries and UK, which called Carbon Monitor Europe. The data are calculated separately for six sectors: power, industry, ground transportation, domestic aviation, international aviation and residential. Daily CO2 emissions are estimated from a large set of activity data compiled from different sources. The goal of this dataset is to improve the timeliness and temporal resolution of emissions for European countries, to inform the public and decision makers about current emissions changes in Europe.