[Article Idea] Tracking revisions to UN database

Publication

Publication title

Annual estimates of global and national CO2 emissions from fossil fuels: Tracking revisions to the United Nations energy statistics database input energy data

Link to publication

https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2023.38

Name of journal/magazine/publisher

Environmental Data Science

Year of publication

2023

Licence for publication

CC BY

Data

Link to data used in the publication

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/energystats/data/

Data availability

Proprietary data, available to purchase

Contact for data

Per https://unstats.un.org/unsd/energystats/data/:

The Energy Statistics Database contains basic statistics for more than 230 countries/territories from year 1950 onwards

To order: The database can be ordered through United Nations Shop.

Pricing: Price for a single user: US$600 A 20% discount is available for academic and non-profit organizations. Requests from Government institutions are considered on a case by case basis and should be sent to: energy_stat@un.org

Dataset topic(s)

Energy, Climate Science

Data format(s)

Unknown (possibly CSV)

Dataset size

Unknown

Source code

Link to code used for the publication

N/A

Code availability

Programming language

None

Visualisations

Summary of visualisation(s)

In the article, there are some tables summarising the data, and then four distinct kinds of graphs:

Line chart plotting count of revisions (points) against the different in years between databases (not exactly against time)
Bar charts for three different kinds of fuels, showing revision count vs entry age
Histogram of additions vs year (time)
Time series for revisions for solid, liquid and gaseous fuels

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