Emissions Dashboard

What is the Methane Emissions Dashboard for Latin America and the Caribbean?

The Methane Emissions Dashboard for the Energy Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean is a data visualization tool developed by OEMLAC. It presents the most up-to-date official information on methane emissions in the energy sector, with a special emphasis on the oil and gas industries, and will progressively integrate all 27 countries in the region. 

What led to the creation of this tool?

Given the opportunity to make data and information reflecting the progress made in monitoring and reporting state methane emissions available to multiple stakeholders—decision-makers, researchers, academics, as well as local and international organizations specializing in energy and climate issues—the aim is to contribute to the process of building and strengthening sectoral climate transparency in the region.   

Considering the vast amount of data generated by countries, the technical challenges associated with disseminating it in clear and understandable language, and the lack of freely accessible compilation tools available in Spanish, the Methane Emissions Dashboard for the Energy Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean was created with the aim of facilitating the dissemination of information in a single space, enabling its analysis and comparison in a clear and interactive manner. 

How was the Dashboard created?  

One of the commitments made by countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to report their National Inventories of Atmospheric Emissions and Removals, including emissions for each sector, category, and gas, revealing trends, historical behavior, and actions taken to gradually improve their efforts toward climate transparency.   

This tool was developed based on official data reported by countries in their most recent National Inventory, included in their first Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR) or, failing that, in the latest Biennial Update Report (BUR) submitted to the Convention.   

The OEMLAC technical team defined the data capture methodology, implemented a quality control process, designed the visualization structure in the tool, and is currently working on validating specific information with the countries’ focal points.   

The latest data update is from February 2026 and will be subject to periodic reviews as countries submit their missing BTRs or introduce updates to their current inventories that involve changes to the reported information. 

What information will be found?

The tool begins by presenting the total emissions from the National Inventory and the proportion from the Energy Sector for the most recent reporting year, along with their historical evolution. It then presents a comparative analysis between the national contribution to emissions and the figures estimated at the regional and global levels by leading organizations in the sector.  

Next, it presents the reported methane emissions, highlighting their representativeness in the Inventory and the Energy sector, as well as their historical trends. Subsequently, it delves into the disaggregation of methane emissions for the categories and subcategories linked to the oil and gas industries, following the notation established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its 2006 Guidelines and its 2019 Refinement, and for specific cases, the 1996 version. 

It also includes a section on reported fugitive emissions for the oil and gas industries, along with those associated with venting and flaring. It integrates information on the methodological levels and emission factors used in the estimation, as well as the reported activity data, linked to both fuel combustion in the energy industries and fugitive emissions. 

Below the dashboard, you will find four buttons that will allow you to access the glossary of terms and acronyms, the explanation of the categories and their notations, as well as the information references used and the reporting units and equivalencies found in the tool, corresponding to those reported by the countries of the region in their National Inventories of Anthropogenic Emissions and Removals. 

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Note. The total emissions included, and the proportionality analyses do not consider emissions from the Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) sector, nor the reported removals, in order to avoid distortions in their interpretation.  

Note. The data presented correspond to the official reports of countries within the framework of their international climate transparency commitments, generated from national capacities, and the information available in each context. Therefore, OEMLAC makes this information available for dissemination and consultation purposes, clarifying that it does not carry out independent verification, methodological validation, or corroboration of the completeness of the data reported by countries.  

The absence of any data may be due to the fact that the country does not yet have the capacity to report it, or that it does not carry out the activity that generates such emissions.