IPCC AR4, AR5, and AR6 20-, 100-, and 500-year GWPs
Description
The International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) produces regular Assessment Reports that provide global warming potentials (GWPs) for greenhouse gases (GHG) in the context of multiple time horizons including 20, 100, and 500 years. The GWPs (in kg CO2-equivalent per kg GHG) can be multiplied by kg GHGs emitted for use in estimating CO2-equivalent (CO2e) impacts of GHGs emitted. In the context of life cycle assessment (LCA) , the GWPs can be used as characterization factors in of the life cycle impact assessment. This dataset provides 20- (GWP-20), 100- (GWP-100) and 500-year (GWP-500) GWPs from the 4th (AR4), 6th (AR6) IPCC assessment reports, and 20- (GWP-20) and 100-year (GWP-100) GWPs from the 5th (AR5) report (AR5 provided no 500 yr GWPs). Datasets are provided in simple tables in Excel, in the openLCA JSON-LD format compliant with the U.S. Federal LCA Commons standards, and in Apache parquet format for the most efficient import into applications or scripts using languages like Python and R. The names for GHGs are from the Federal LCA Elementary Flow List (FEDEFL) v1.2, which are names preferred for this GHGs in the USEPA's Substance Registry Service. These datasets were created using the LCIA Formatter v1.1.1 (https://github.com/USEPA/LCIAformatter). The GWP values are provided in these formats for convenient use; the values have not been altered from the values reported in the Assessment Reports.
Python code used to produce the data is available in a github gist under the supporting data links along with dataset metadata from the LCIA formatter.