Using the Advanced Emission Model (AEM), ENVISA performed an inventory of aircraft emissions over the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) area for 2002. Traffic and trajectory information was extracted from EUROCONTROL’s GAES-Move (now WISDOM) global flight movement database.
Following guidelines from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aircraft emissions were assigned to each ECAC Member State using three different schemes. Emissions were successively allocated to: