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Projections of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Plastic Lifecycle

<p>The dataset displays projections of greenhouse gas emissions from primary plastics, in million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (t CO2 eq). The dataset provides estimates at the global level under different scenarios. Details can be found in the Annex of the OECD Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060. The time horizon of the projections is 2060.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Aggregation &amp; consolidation:</em></span> Greenhouse gases emissions are aggregated using 100-year global warming potential (GWP) from AR2 (IPCC, 1995).&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Other manipulations:</em></span> 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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Contact:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="mailto:env.linkages@oecd.org">env.linkages@oecd.org</a></p> <p><strong>Data source(s) used:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1787/aa1edf33-en">OECD Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oecd.org/content/oecd/en/topics/sub-issues/environment-economy-modelling-and-outlooks.html">OECD ENV-Linkages model</a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0459-z">Zheng and Suh (2019)</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>