Abstract
This work presents the SEEG platform, a 46-year long dataset of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in Brazil (1970–2015) providing more than 2 million data records for the Agriculture, Energy, Industry, Waste and Land Use Change Sectors at national and subnational levels. The SEEG dataset was developed by the Climate Observatory, a Brazilian civil society initiative, based on the IPCC guidelines and Brazilian National Inventories embedded with country specific emission factors and processes, raw data from multiple official and non-official sources, and organized together with social and economic indicators. Once completed, the SEEG dataset was converted into a spreadsheet format and shared via web-platform that, by means of simple queries, allows users to search data by emission sources and country and state activities. Because of its effectiveness in producing and making available data on a consistent and accessible basis, SEEG may significantly increase the capacity of civil society, scientists and stakeholders to understand and anticipate trends related to GHG emissions as well as its implications to public policies in Brazil.
Highlights
Background & SummaryThe Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)[1] from 2015 aims to hold the rise in global average temperatures by 2100 to “well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels”
The amount of N excreted and the fraction of that amount receiving treatment (FtA) for each type of animal and Brazilian State are available in MCTI31, except for beef cattle, dairy cows and swine, whose fractions are described in MCTI30. These fractions were used for calculating the percentage of N excreted, which is managed under different manure management systems
The amount of N excreted and the amount receiving treatment (FRACPRP) for each type of animal and Brazilian State are available in MCTI31,except for beef cattle, dairy cows and pigs, whose data are described in MCTI30
Summary
The Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)[1] from 2015 aims to hold the rise in global average temperatures by 2100 to “well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels”. The SEEG has covered 46 years (1970-2015) of GHG estimates, providing a unique dataset with more than 2 million up to date records at national and subnational levels for five sectors that are emission sources: Agriculture, Energy, Industrial Processes and Product Use, Land Use Change, and Waste[12]. In 2012, the OC selected four institutions with strong backgrounds in the major emitting sectors to coordinate the technical process of SEEG estimations production: Imazon (Land Use Change), Imaflora (Agriculture), IEMA (Energy and Industrial Processes and Product Use) and ICLEI (Waste) These organizations worked based on the guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[12,14] embedding them with multiple sources: National Inventories, government reports, institutes, research centers, industry and other nongovernmental organizations. Among the existing GHG emission data for Brazil known to the authors, the dataset presented here is probably the most comprehensive one in terms of transparency, number of records and time and geographic coverage
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