CO2 emissions from global shipping
A new experimental database
The shipping industry is essential for international trade, but it is also an important
source of CO2 emissions. To make progress towards climate targets, countries need
to monitor CO2 emissions from vessels owned by their ship operator companies. However,
most shipping activity takes place outside national borders, making it more difficult
to monitor than activity taking place within countries. The OECD’s experimental database
on OECD.stat provides a new source of data for CO2 emissions from global shipping,
which is available monthly in near real time. This data will help national statistics
producers to compile their Air Emission Accounts (AEAs) for the System of Environmental
Economic Accounting (SEEA). This Working Paper presents some initial results from
the new data source and describes how they were produced. The method is based on granular
and timely ship-level data provided by the United Nations Global Platform, and it
uses a bottom-up estimation approach to produce results broken down by country and
type of ship.
Available from September 12, 2023
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