Commonly used codes, categories, terminologies, and nomenclatures used in climate policy analysis in a nice Python package. The documentation can be found at: https://climate-categories.readthedocs.io.
Included categorizations
Name |
Title |
IPCC1996 |
IPCC GHG emission categories (1996) |
IPCC2006 |
IPCC GHG emission categories (2006) |
IPCC2006_PRIMAP |
IPCC GHG emission categories (2006) with additional categories |
CRF1999 |
Common Reporting Format GHG emissions categories (1999) |
CRF2013 |
Common Reporting Format GHG emissions categories (2013) |
CRF2013_2021 |
CRF categories extended with country specific categories from 2021 submissions |
CRF2013_2022 |
CRF categories extended with country specific categories from 2022 submissions |
CRF2013_2023 |
CRF categories extended with country specific categories from 2023 submissions |
BURDI |
BUR GHG emission categories (DI query interface) |
BURDI_class |
BUR GHG emission categories (DI query interface) + classifications |
CRFDI |
CRF GHG emission categories (DI query interface) |
CRFDI_class |
CRF GHG emission categories (DI query interface) + classifications |
GCB |
Global Carbon Budget CO2 emission categories |
RCMIP |
RCMIP emissions categories |
gas |
Gases and other climate-forcing substances |
ISO3 |
Countries, country groups, and other areas from ISO 3166 |
ISO3_GCAM |
dito, plus regions used by the GCAM integrated assessment model |
FAO |
FAOSTAT climate change agrifood systems GHG emissions categories |
CT |
Climate Trace categories |
Included conversions between categorizations
IPCC1996 <-> IPCC2006
FAO <-> IPCC2006_PRIMAP
CT <-> IPCC2006_PRIMAP
Status
Climate categories is still in development and the API and names of categorizations are still subject to change.
License
Copyright 2021, Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V.
Copyright 2021, Robert Gieseke
Copyright 2023-2025, Climate Resource Pty Ltd
Copyright 2026, Climate Resource S GmbH
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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Citation
If you use this library and want to cite it, please cite it as:
Mika Pflüger, Daniel Busch, Annika Günther, Johannes Gütschow, and Robert Gieseke. (2026-09-01). primap-community/climate_categories: climate_categories Version 0.12.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22234451
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