Climate TRACE emissions data and API

Climate TRACE emissions data and API

Climate TRACE publishes modelled greenhouse-gas emissions estimates by country, sector and individual emitting source, as bulk downloads and a keyless JSON API. The data page says: "Climate TRACE data are free and publicly available to enable action and accountability at the massive scale necessary for global progress."

Coverage

Emissions estimates by gas, sector and subsector for countries, administrative areas, cities and individual emitting sources, plus asset-owner records and country rankings. The v7 API exposes sources, source emissions, owners, administrative areas, cities, country rankings and the sector, subsector, gas, country and continent definition lists; the OpenAPI document read on the check day reported version 7.2.1 and described itself as "Access emissions data produced by Climate TRACE." The data page says of the latest release: "October release 5.12.0 includes monthly emissions data through August 2026." Higher-resolution geospatial files are available on request and the full dataset is also mirrored in Google BigQuery (billed by Google).

Verdict

Greenhouse-gas emissions estimates down to individual facilities, as downloads and a keyless JSON API. The terms say: "The emissions data and associated metadata has been made available via Climate TRACE under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), with the exception of external datasets listed below." WARNING: that exception matters — "The Climate TRACE dataset also includes some data reproduced from the following external sources, which are generally also open but may have different specific terms." The listed sources include EDGAR and FAOSTAT country-level estimates for several sectors and source-level rows from the European, Israeli and US pollutant registers, and the terms add: "It is the sole responsibility of the user to review the terms and conditions for all the above sources prior to using the data." The API is a beta: "As a beta release, we cannot guarantee availability of the Climate TRACE API; please keep volume low and use it with caution in production settings." Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.