Climate change in a changing world: Socio-economic and technological transitions, regulatory frameworks and trends on global greenhouse gas emissions from EDGAR v.5.0

•The EDGAR dataset provides decades-long time series of GHG emissions for all world countries.•The EDGAR V5.0 updates CO2 emissions data to 2018 and non-CO2 to 2015.•EDGAR shows an overall upward trend for global GHG emissions.•A detailed overview of emission trends and features is provided by gas, by activity sector and by geographical areas.