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By integrating Scope 1 and 2 emissions factors with rapid IO-LCA (rLCA) models, the project revealed significant emissions intensity variations across production methods and countries. Key findings highlight the potential for emissions reductions through increased scrap use in both steel and aluminium production and the inaccuracy of standard EEIO data in certain regions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000003#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Traditional 'spend-based' emissions factors using environmentally extended input-output (EEIO) approaches are often too coarse to manage unique supply chain risks because they rely on aggregated governmental data and apply single country or global averages, obscuring differences between specific companies or facilities.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000003#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The use of hybrid-path emissions factors revealed that standard EEIO data may underestimate actual production emissions in India and China. In the US, primary steel mill emissions profiles vary widely, ranging from 0.5 to 3.8 tCO2e/t, compared to a national average of 1.4 tCO2e/t.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000003#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Increasing scrap content in steel production in India from 50% to 90% can reduce the total emissions profile by nearly 50%, dropping from 2.14 tCO2e/tcs to 1.3 tCO2e/tcs.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000003#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In the aluminium value chain, alumina refining and smelting are the primary emission drivers. Total embodied emissions vary from 5.7 to 18.5 tCO2e/t depending on the producing country (Canada, China, India) and refining environment (Brazil, China, Australia, India). Using recycled scrap in aluminium production can reduce emissions intensity by up to 90% compared to virgin aluminium.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000003#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["steel","aluminium","Scope 3","embedded emissions","Green steel"],"geography_discussed":["People's Republic of China","India","United States","Canada","Brazil","Australia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["case study"]},{"id":"clitrace-000001","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/clitrace-000001","title":"Going the Distance with Remote Sensing","publisher":{"name":"Climate TRACE","organization":"climate-trace"},"document_type":"guide","language":"en","date_published":"2023-06-06","source_url":"https://climatetrace.org/news/going-the-distance-with-remote-sensing","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document describes remote sensing as the process of gathering information from a distance by detecting electromagnetic waves. It distinguishes between active sensing, which transmits signals to measure reflections, and passive sensing, which measures naturally emitted or reflected waves. Remote sensors can be space-based, aerial-based, or ground-based, though Climate TRACE primarily utilizes satellite-based sensors for their global coverage. The effectiveness of satellite remote sensing is determined by spectral resolution (wavelength bands), spatial resolution (pixel detail), and temporal resolution (revisit frequency). Climate TRACE integrates this data with satellite imagery and ground truth data to monitor greenhouse gas emissions from various sources and train AI/ML algorithms.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000001#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Remote sensing is categorized into active sensing, which transmits a signal to measure the reflection (e.g., Doppler radar or measuring tree height), and passive sensing, which measures naturally emitted electromagnetic waves (e.g., heat from steel factories or power plants).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000001#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Remote sensors are deployed via three primary platforms: space-based satellites for global coverage, aerial-based platforms like drones and airplanes for larger areas, and ground-based sensors for high-frequency, close-range measurements.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000001#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Climate TRACE primarily relies on satellite-based remote sensing because it provides global coverage. The utility of these satellites is defined by spectral resolution (wavelength bands), spatial resolution (the real-world size of a pixel), and temporal resolution (the revisit frequency of the satellite).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000001#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Remote sensing allows Climate TRACE to collect data over large areas, obtain direct measurements, monitor changes over time, fill information gaps where ground-truth data is missing, and provide training data for AI/ML algorithms.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000001#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["remote sensing","greenhouse gas emissions"],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["technical guide"]},{"id":"clitrace-000002","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/clitrace-000002","title":"How to parse asset ownership in Climate TRACE data","publisher":{"name":"Climate TRACE","organization":"climate-trace"},"document_type":"guide","language":"en","date_published":"2023-02-25","source_url":"https://climatetrace.org/news/how-to-parse-asset-ownership-in-climate-trace-data","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document provides a step-by-step guide for users to identify all owners of a high-emitting asset, using the Troll oil and gas field in Norway as a case study. It clarifies that while the website dashboard displays only the primary owner, the CSV files provide a full list of owners and their respective percentage stakes.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000002#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The Climate TRACE website dashboard simplifies ownership by displaying only the primary owner, whereas the CSV file downloads provide more comprehensive detail, including minority owners.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000002#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Using the Troll oil and gas field in Norway as an example, the dashboard identifies Petoro (Norway) as the single owner, but the CSV data reveals five owners in total: Petoro (with a 56% majority stake), Equinor, Shell, TotalEnergies, and ConocoPhillips.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000002#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To find detailed ownership stakes, users should download the country-specific 'Non-forest sectors (CSV)' ZIP package, navigate to the relevant sector subfolder, and locate the ownership CSV file where owner names are in column C and percentage stakes are in column E.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000002#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["greenhouse gas emissions"],"geography_discussed":["Norway","North Sea"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["technical guide"]},{"id":"clitrace-000005","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/clitrace-000005","title":"Climate Trace Data on Google BigQuery","publisher":{"name":"Climate TRACE","organization":"climate-trace"},"document_type":"guide","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://media.climatetrace.org/Climate_TRACE_Big_Query_Data_8713215f81.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document outlines the structure and access requirements for the Climate TRACE public dataset on Google BigQuery, including a detailed data catalog of emissions, metadata, and sector-specific tables. It provides step-by-step instructions for querying the data, managing permissions, and exporting results via CSV, JSON, or Parquet formats, while noting that query costs are borne by the user.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000005#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The Climate TRACE dataset on Google BigQuery is organized into several categories: emissions tables (including source, country, city, and GADM administrative boundary data), metadata tables (covering confidence, uncertainty, and ownership), Emissions Reduction Solutions (ERS) tables, and sector-specific datasets for road transportation, domestic shipping, and international shipping.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000005#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To access and query the public dataset, users must have a Google Cloud account and specific permissions on their own project, such as the bigquery.jobs.create permission, which is included in roles like Project Owner, BigQuery Job User, BigQuery User, or BigQuery Admin.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000005#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Data is updated monthly, and users can identify the specific version of a table by checking the 'Labels' section in the BigQuery Console (e.g., v5_1_0).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000005#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Data export is supported through three methods: downloading query results as csv, json, or parquet for small to medium datasets; exporting large datasets to Google Cloud Storage as Parquet; and using filtered exports via temporary tables.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000005#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"While storage costs for the public dataset are covered by Climate TRACE, all query and export costs are billed to the user's own Google Cloud project and billing account based on the amount of data processed.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000005#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["greenhouse gas emissions","greenhouse gas monitoring","road transport","electricity generation","climate data"],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["technical guide"]},{"id":"clitrace-000007","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/clitrace-000007","title":"We Can Manage What We Measure: Where Near-term Reductions in Methane are Important and Achievable","publisher":{"name":"Climate TRACE","organization":"climate-trace"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://media.climatetrace.org/Climate_TRACE_UNSG_Methane_v_Final_340d2db940.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"Climate TRACE estimates that anthropogenic methane emissions in 2025 were just over 410 million tonnes, with agriculture, fossil energy, and waste accounting for 97% of the total. The report argues that slashing methane is the most impactful way to keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius due to the gas's powerful near-term warming effect. It identifies specific actionable opportunities: reducing methane intensity in oil and gas production (particularly in the US and Mexico), capturing coal mine methane, targeting a small number of high-emitting landfills, and addressing enteric fermentation and rice cultivation in agriculture.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000007#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Agriculture, fossil energy systems (oil, gas, and coal), and waste are the primary drivers of man-made methane, collectively representing 97% of total anthropogenic emissions. In 2025, total emissions were estimated to be just over 410 million tonnes (Mt).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000007#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a significant discrepancy between self-reported methane emissions and independent inventories; UNFCCC figures (326 Mt) are substantially lower than Climate TRACE estimates (just over 410 Mt in 2025) and IEA figures (345 Mt).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000007#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Oil and gas (O&G) operations are highly actionable for reduction, though they are prone to undercounting. In 2025, O&G production emitted 70.4 Mt of methane, with an additional 7.4 Mt from pipelines and LNG vessels. The US and Mexico are highlighted as needing further action to reduce methane intensities.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000007#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Coal mining operations produced 66.8 Mt of methane in 2025. Implementing emissions-reduction solutions (ERS), such as methane recovery and utilization, ventilation air methane (VAM) oxidation, and fugitive methane flaring, could reduce these emissions by at least 45%.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000007#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Methane emissions from the waste sector are highly concentrated; the top 10% of emitting landfills globally (1,373 sites) account for 70% of all methane emissions from waste. Combining biocover and waste diversion could reduce emissions by 40-50%.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000007#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Agriculture is the largest but most difficult sector to abate. Enteric fermentation from cattle is the largest single source of methane worldwide, emitting 130.7 Mt in 2025. Rice cultivation emitted 26.4 Mt in 2025, with over 65% of these emissions coming from India, Thailand, China, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000007#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["methane","greenhouse gas emissions","fossil fuel industry","landfill","emission intensity","waste management"],"geography_discussed":["United States","Mexico","India","Thailand","People's Republic of China","Indonesia","Bangladesh","Azerbaijan","Kuwait","Argentina","Kazakhstan","Norway","United Arab Emirates","Saudi Arabia","Libya","Brazil","European Union"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["emissions inventory","mitigation assessment"]},{"id":"clitrace-000018","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/clitrace-000018","title":"Tracking emissions state by state","publisher":{"name":"Climate TRACE","organization":"climate-trace"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://media.climatetrace.org/starrs_en_f33b2f12f2.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The STARRS pilot project, initiated by Climate Group and Climate TRACE, demonstrates how satellite imagery and artificial intelligence can provide timely, granular greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data for subnational governments. By tracking six pilot regions—Abruzzo (Italy), Basque Country (Spain), Jalisco (Mexico), Querétaro (Mexico), Pernambuco (Brazil), and Western Cape (South Africa)—the project addressed common barriers to emissions accounting, such as high costs and long timeframes associated with traditional bottom-up methods. The project provided historical data from 2015 to 2021 across sectors including electricity, heavy industry, and road transport, while also mapping biomass changes. Findings for the pilot regions highlighted specific emission drivers, such as the dominance of the Bilbao Refinery in the Basque Country's oil and gas sector and the significant impact of feedlots in Jalisco and Western Cape.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Subnational governments that possess GHG emissions inventories are four times more likely to have set region-wide emissions reduction targets compared to those without such inventories; specifically, 60% of those with inventories reported a target, compared to only 15% of those without.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Traditional bottom-up GHG inventory methods are resource-intensive and slow, often taking up to two years to complete, which frequently results in outdated data that does not reflect current emissions trends.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The STARRS project provided emissions data for six pilot regions from 2015 to 2021, covering sectors such as electricity generation, heavy industry (steel and cement), oil and gas, road transport, aviation, and land use change.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Abruzzo, Italy, 2021 emissions were estimated at 2.4 million metric tonnes CO2e, with cement manufacturing, road transportation, and electricity generation identified as the largest emitting subsectors.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In the Basque Country, Spain, 2021 emissions were estimated at 9.1 million metric tonnes CO2e. The Bilbao Refinery alone generated 16% of the region's oil and gas refining emissions and 1% of Spain's total emissions in 2021.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Jalisco, Mexico, 2021 emissions were estimated at 12 million metric tonnes CO2e. The region experienced significant biomass loss between 2015 and 2021, with forest loss releasing 80 million tonnes of CO2e and shrubland-grassland loss releasing six million tonnes.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Pernambuco, Brazil, 2021 emissions were estimated at 10.7 million metric tonnes CO2e. Oil and gas refining is a major contributor, accounting for 27% of the state's emissions, with the Petrobras RNEST refinery emitting nearly three million tonnes of CO2e annually.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Querétaro, Mexico, 2021 emissions were estimated at 4.3 million metric tonnes CO2e. The region saw a net biomass loss between 2015 and 2021, with forest biomass loss releasing approximately one million tonnes of CO2e.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"clitrace-000018#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Western Cape, South Africa, 2021 emissions were estimated at 7.8 million metric tonnes CO2e. 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