Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Plastic Lifecycle From 2015 To 2019

The dataset displays greenhouse gas emissions from the plastic lifecycle, in million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e). The dataset provides information at the global level. Details can be found in the Annex of the OECD Global Plastics Outlook.

Aggregation & consolidation: Greenhouse gases emissions are aggregated using 100-year global warming potential (GWP) from AR2 (IPCC, 1995).

Other manipulations: Emission coefficients by stage and polymer or end-of-life fate are extrapolated from 2015 data using indexes. These indexes are built on scope-2 emissions intensity of primary and secondary plastics production (incl. upstream sectors) from the OECD ENV-Linkages model.

Contact: env.linkages@oecd.org

**Data source(s) used: **OECD** ** Global Plastics Outlook, OECD ENV-Linkages model, Zheng and Suh (2019)