Carbon Monitor Europe, a near-real-time and country-level monitoring of daily CO2 emissions for European Union and the United Kingdom
- 1Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, China
- 2Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China
- 3Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- 4Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace, Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Paris, France
- 5Kayrros, 33 Rue La Fayette, 75009 Paris, France
- 6Laboratoire des Sciences du Climate et de l’Environnement LSCE, Orme de Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- 7Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
- 8Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
- 9CITEPA, 42 Rue de Paradis, 75010 Paris
- 10European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, RG2 9AX, UK
- 11Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, 3232 Croul Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697-3100, USA
With the urgent need to implement the EU countries pledges and to monitor the effectiveness of Green Deal plan to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, 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, supply chains tensions and rising prices of energy and commodities, war in Ukraine. Here we present a near-real-time dataset of daily fossil fuel and cement emissions to monitor country-level emissions from January 2019 through December 2021 for 27 European Union countries and the United Kingdom. This dataset is called Carbon Monitor Europe. The data are calculated separately for six sectors: power, industry (incl. cement production), ground transportation, domestic aviation, international aviation, residential emissions which includes the built environment. Daily CO2 emissions are estimated from a large set of activity data compiled from different sources, including hourly to daily electrical power generation data, monthly production data and production indices of industry, daily mobility data and indices for the ground transportation. Individual flight location data and monthly data were for aviation sector estimates. Monthly fuel consumption data downscaled in time with daily air temperature are used to estimate daily emissions from commercial and residential buildings. 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.
How to cite: Ke, P., Deng, Z., Zhu, B., Zheng, B., Wang, Y., Boucher, O., Ben Arous, S., Zhou, C., Dou, X., Sun, T., Li, Z., Yan, F., Cui, D., Hu, Y., Huo, D., Pierre, J., Engelen, R., J. Davis, S., Ciais, P., and Liu, Z.: Carbon Monitor Europe, a near-real-time and country-level monitoring of daily CO2 emissions for European Union and the United Kingdom, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-4558, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-4558, 2023.
