PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC 2006 categories

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Jeffery, Mairi Louise; Gütschow, Johannes; Gieseke, Robert; Gebel, Ronja (2018): PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC 2006 categories. V. 1.0. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2018.001

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I N R E V I E W : Jeffery, Mairi Louise; Gütschow, Johannes; Gieseke, Robert; Gebel, Ronja (2018): PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC 2006 categories. V. 1.0. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2018.001

Abstract

PRIMAP-crf is a processed version of data reported by countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the Common Reporting Format (CRF). The processing has three key aspects: 1) Data from individual countries and years are combined into one file. 2) Data is re-organised to follow the IPCC 2006 hierarchical categorisation. 3) ‘Baskets’ of gases are calculated according to different global warming potential estimates from each of the three most recent IPCC reports.

All Annex I Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to report domestic emissions on an annual basis in a 'Common Reporting Format' (CRF). In 2015, the CRF data reporting was updated to follow the more recent 2006 guidelines from the IPCC and the structure of the reporting tables was modified accordingly. However, the hierarchical categorisation of data in the IPCC 2006 guidelines is not readily extracted from the reporting tables. We present the PRIMAP-crf data as a re-constructed hierarchical dataset according to the IPCC 2006 guidelines. Furthermore, the data is organised in a series of tables containing all available countries and years for each GHG individual gas and category reported.

In addition to single gases, the Kyoto basket of greenhouse gases (CO2, N2O, CH4, HFCs, PFCs, SF6, and NF3) is provided according to multiple global warming potentials. The dataset was produced using the PRIMAP emissions module. Key processing steps include; extracting data from submitted CRF excel spreadsheets, mapping CRF categories to IPCC 2006 categories, constructing missing categories from available data, and aggregating single gases to gas baskets. The processed data is available under an Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Authors

Jeffery, Mairi Louise;Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Gütschow, Johannes;Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Gieseke, Robert;Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Gebel, Ronja

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Jeffery, Mairi Louise (Postdoctoral research scientist) ; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

Keywords

emissions data, UNFCCC, emission register

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