Paris Reality Check: PRIMAP-crfJeffery, M. L., Gütschow, J., Gieseke, R., and Gebel, R.: PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC 2006 categories, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1427-2018, 2018.
Gütschow, J.; Jeffery, L.; Guenther, A. (2021): PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC categories (2021v1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723476, 2021
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:
Top levels of the IPCC 2006 categorisation. Filled circles indicate that further sub-categories exist. Orange circles indicate that the category is generated by aggregation of sub-categories in PRIMAP-crf. Click on the circles to expand/collapse the hierarchy.
Agriculture only (red) and LULUCF only (green) categories are aggregated to give combined categories (purple). Some of the data that is provided as Agriculture or LULUCF only does not map directly to an IPCC 2006 category. Additional PRIMAP 'M' categories are therefore created for this data and integrated into the hierarchy. Filled circles indicate categories for which further sub-categories are available in the full dataset. Click on the circles to expand/collapse the hierarchy.
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. In this paper, 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. It is therefore readily usable for climate policy assessment, such as the quantification of emissions reduction targets. 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. Finally, we describe key aspects of the data with relevance for climate policy; the contribution of NF₃ to national totals, changes in data reported over subsequent years, and issues or difficulties encountered when processing currently available data. The processed data is available under an Open Data CC BY 4.0 license, and available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723476.
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Jeffery, M. L., Gütschow, J., Gieseke, R., and Gebel, R.: PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC 2006 categories, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1427-2018, 2018.
Gütschow, J.; Jeffery, L.; Guenther, A. (2021): PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC categories (2021v1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4723476, 2021
Jeffery, M. L., Gütschow, J., Gieseke, R., Gebel, R. (2018): PRIMAP-crf: UNFCCC CRF data in IPCC 2006 categories. V. 1.0. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2018.001
Johannes Gütschow, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, johannes.guetschow@pik-potsdam.de
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Gütschow, J. et al. (2021): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1850-2018). v2.2. Zenodo. \href{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4479172}{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4479172}, 2021