A new domain on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has just been released on both FAOSTAT and it's new pilot version FAOSTAT3. This is intended as the first in a range of services aimed at agri-environmental indicators, to help member countries enhance their capacity to identify, assess and report environmental statistics.“We are expanding our data services to a wide range of agri-environmental and socio-economic indicators, providing at the same time access to improved analysis tools, including the possibility to compare FAO data to those from other institutions, for instance data from the United States Department of Agriculture,” said Pietro Gennari, Director of the Statistics Division.At the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) in Durban last year, countries agreed to report their greenhouse gas emissions at least biennially, starting end of 2014.“It is in this context, and in relation to emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land uses, that the database can support the needs of FAO member countries,” said Francesco Tubiello, Natural Resources Officer, Climate, Energy and Tenure Division. The newly added GHG database offers a complete time-series of emission statistics for all countries over the period 1990-2010. It provides countries with vital, regularly updated information to help them consistently identify, assess and report GHG emissions from their agriculture, forestry and other land use sectors, as part of the activity data they already report to FAO.
To learn more about the database visit the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme website