The EDGAR project is a comprehensive task that has been carried out jointly by the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). It combines information on all different anthropogenic emission sources and acts in practice as a reference database for many applications. Since 2004 the EDGAR project team has been expanded. Besides the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP, formerly associated with RIVM), the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EC in Ispra (I) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPI) in Mainz (D) now cooperate in developing new versions of EDGAR. The work is linked into and part of the Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA) formerly of IGBP/IGAC, now part of IGBP/AIMES. EDGAR 2.0: focus on 1990 emissions
EDGAR 2.0 provided global annual emissions for 1990 of greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O and precursor gases CO, NOx, NMVOC and SO2, both per region and on a 1x1 grid for all anthropogenic sources. Similar inventories were compiled for a number of CFCs, halons and methyl bromide, methyl chloroform. In the follow-up project the database was extensively validated and an uncertainty analysis was carried out (Olivier et al., 2001a,b). Most of the applications of EDGAR 2.0 over the last couple of years are model studies, but EDGAR data are also extensively used for policy applications for which emissions data on country level were calculated with the EDGAR information system. Over 700 users have downloaded EDGAR 2.0 data. EDGAR datasets have also been used in IPCC Assessments, both on source strengths and on spatial distribution of emissions in emission scenarios (IPCC, 2000a, 2001). EDGAR 3.2/3.3: update and expansion in time, gases and sources
EDGAR 2.0 has been updated to EDGAR 3.2: an update and extension from 1990 to 1995 for all gases and extended time series for direct greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O to 1970-1995; and inclusion of 1970-1995 emissions of the new 'Kyoto' greenhouse gases HFCs, PFCs, SF6 (Olivier et al., 2001a,b; Olivier, 2002). EDGAR 32 Fast Track 2000
The EDGAR 32FT2000 dataset contains emissions for 2000 on grid and per country for the direct greenhouse gases and air pollutants covered by EDGAR 3.2. These are based on the earlier estimates for 1995 and prepared by trend analyses at country level for each standard source category of EDGAR 3.2. For gridded emissions of large-scale biomass burning four variants have been compiled. | 
