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Savanna fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions Totals summarizes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disseminated in the FAOSTAT Climate Change domains of emissions from agrifood systems. Data are computed following the Tier 1 methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National greenhouse gas...

Countries reporting
20
Highest
7,205 kt
Australia
Lowest
0.001 kt
Iceland
Median
9.31 kt
Years covered
31
1990–2020
Data points
743

What the numbers show

Savanna fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 20 countries. The highest value is 7,205 kt in Australia; the lowest is 0.001 kt in Iceland.

The median across all reporting countries is 9.31 kt, and the mean is 479.06 kt.

Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Estonia (up 46,133.3%), and the largest decrease in Ireland (down 93.4%).

Savanna fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Australia 7,205 kt 2020 down 35.5% falling
2 Italy 1,001 kt 2020 down 52.2% volatile
3 United States 617.46 kt 2020 up 68.6% volatile
4 Portugal 386.01 kt 2020 down 78.0% volatile
5 France 178.83 kt 2020 down 12.7% falling
6 Kazakhstan 109.25 kt 2020 up 317.1% volatile
7 Japan 26.36 kt 2020 unchanged flat
8 Poland 16.28 kt 2020 down 4.7% volatile
9 Greece 12.4 kt 2020 up 307.3% volatile
10 Spain 11.29 kt 2020 up 16.0% volatile
11 Croatia 7.33 kt 2020 up 2,865.6% volatile
12 Ireland 3.55 kt 2020 down 93.4% volatile
13 Ukraine 2.75 kt 2020 up 432.8% volatile
14 Hungary 1.7 kt 2020 down 55.7% volatile
15 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0.4061 kt 2020 up 3.1% flat
16 Estonia 0.2774 kt 2020 up 46,133.3% volatile
17 Latvia 0.1744 kt 2020 down 62.5% volatile
18 Finland 0.0449 kt 2020 down 40.5% volatile
18 Switzerland 0.0449 kt 2020 up 2,145.0% volatile
20 Iceland 0.001 kt 2020 down 86.5% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Savanna fires — Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) — UNFCCC
Unit
kt
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
25 places, 743 data points, 1990–2020
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The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions Totals summarizes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disseminated in the FAOSTAT Climate Change domains of emissions from agrifood systems. Data are computed following the Tier 1 methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National greenhouse gas (GHG) Inventories (IPCC, 1996; 1997; 2000; 2002; 2006; 2014). Emissions from other economic sectors as defined by the IPCC are also disseminated in the domain for completeness. Methodological details can be found at: https://files-faostat.fao.org/production/GT/GT_en.pdf