Super Pollutant Initiative

Interactive Super Pollutant Data

In partnership with SPECTRA (Super Pollutant Elimination Alliance) GBB Strategy is compiling a central database of global Super Pollutant data.

Register here to get edit access to the regulatory database.

New Functionality:

Use the “Estimator” button to enter a company’s profile and see customized super pollutant exposure (policies, incentives, emission sources, VCM projects etc.)

Review super pollutant emissions, regulations, biomethane programs, VCM projects, and International Agreements

Notes

Super Pollutant Definition

Short - Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs): Methane (CH4), Black Carbon / Soot, Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), Tropospheric Ozone (O3)

Long - Lived Climate Super Pollutants: High GWP, long atmospheric life: Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Other F-gases: Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3)

Update Process

*Ongoing process: Regulations are added and updated on a regular basis (updated every Monday by 5 pm ET)

** User edits and submissions encouraged

***Sub-Federal jurisdictions to be added continuously as more regulations are added

Disclosures

Regulations are neither exhaustive nor assumed to have legally correct interpretations. GBB Strategy Inc. is not responsible for how individuals or organizations leverage the aggregated data

Citations & Sources

Emissions:

EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database (a collaboration between the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), the International Energy Agency (IEA), and comprising IEA-EDGAR CO2, EDGAR CH4, EDGAR N2O, EDGAR F-GASES version EDGAR_2025_GHG (2025) European Commission.

IEA-EDGAR CO2 (v4), a component of the EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG database version EDGAR_2025_GHG (2025) including or based on data from IEA (2024) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy, www.iea.org/statistics, as modified by the Joint Research Centre.

https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2025

https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg2025

VCM Projects:

VCS project registry

CAR project registry

Gold Standard project registry

ACR project registry