Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Gas Inventory Dashboard

Every year, USDA provides data, analysis, and support to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, an official submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. USDA provides the data and analysis for the land use, land-use change, and forestry and agriculture chapters as well as the agriculture portion of the energy chapter. Emission and sink estimates are reported in aggregate on a national basis. Periodically, USDA utilizes the same data and methods to produce the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Gas Inventory, published quadrennially. While the data and methods in both GHG inventories are consistent, the USDA report is disaggregated in order to show specific trends by land use or by region.

In an effort to provide users with more timely updates on national and state estimates of emissions from agriculture and forestry, USDA has developed an interactive dashboard, updated annually, that allows users to explore emissions estimates from those sectors which is accompanied by supplemental data that helps provide additional context about the drivers of those emissions. The data in this dashboard is consistent with both the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry GHG Inventory, and EPA's Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks.

Data are presented for Cropland Soils (N2O), Enteric Fermentation (CH4), Managed Livestock Waste (CH4 + N2O), Grazed Lands (CH4 + N2O), Rice Cultivation + Residue Burning (CH4 + N2O), Energy Use, Forests, Harvested Wood, Urban Trees, and Agricultural Soils.