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Savanna fires — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (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
5,659 kt
Australia
Lowest
0.0005 kt
Iceland
Median
3.39 kt
Years covered
31
1990–2020
Data points
743

What the numbers show

Savanna fires — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) — UNFCCC is currently reported for 20 countries. The highest value is 5,659 kt in Australia; the lowest is 0.0005 kt in Iceland.

The median across all reporting countries is 3.39 kt, and the mean is 315.93 kt.

Over the past decade 8 countries rose and 11 fell. The largest increase was in Estonia (up 49,500.0%), and the largest decrease in Ireland (down 93.4%).

Savanna fires — Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) — UNFCCC (UNFCCC CH4): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Australia 5,659 kt 2020 down 35.6% falling
2 United States 331.24 kt 2020 up 68.6% volatile
3 Italy 127.66 kt 2020 down 52.2% volatile
4 France 127.1 kt 2020 down 14.3% falling
5 Portugal 20.13 kt 2020 down 78.5% volatile
6 Japan 14.14 kt 2020 unchanged flat
7 Greece 11.64 kt 2020 up 307.3% volatile
8 Kazakhstan 11.2 kt 2020 down 20.0% volatile
9 Spain 5.81 kt 2020 up 69.9% volatile
10 Croatia 3.93 kt 2020 up 2,865.8% volatile
11 Ireland 2.85 kt 2020 down 93.4% volatile
12 Ukraine 1.48 kt 2020 up 432.8% volatile
13 Poland 1.05 kt 2020 down 4.7% volatile
14 Hungary 0.9098 kt 2020 down 55.7% volatile
15 Estonia 0.1488 kt 2020 up 49,500.0% volatile
16 Latvia 0.0935 kt 2020 down 62.6% volatile
17 Switzerland 0.0241 kt 2020 up 2,090.9% volatile
18 Finland 0.0239 kt 2020 down 41.0% volatile
19 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 0.0151 kt 2020 up 3.4% flat
20 Iceland 0.0005 kt 2020 down 87.5% 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) from CH4 (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
Last refreshed

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