Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) often lack the necessary tools, guidance, and capacity for compiling an emission inventory (EI) for air pollutants. A reliable EI is an important prerequisite for the identification of key emissions sources, as an input to modelling atmospheric transport and impacts of air pollutants, and the identification of appropriate mitigation policies. The publicly-available Global Atmospheric Pollution Forum Emission Inventory (GAPF-EI) tool meets the need of LMICs for a user-friendly tool allowing in-country practitioners to compile their own EIs. The species covered are SO₂, NO_X, CO, NMVOC, CH₄, NH₃, PM₁₀, PM _2.5, black carbon, organic carbon and CO₂. Output from the tool can therefore support the development of integrated air quality and climate change mitigation strategies. This tool incorporates default emission factors and inventory methods conforming with internationally recognised approaches. The GAPF-EI tool enables emissions to be estimated for technologies or practices that are often of little or no relevance to developed countries, but may represent key sources in LMICs. This paper describes the GAPF-EI tool and its application to Côte d’Ivoire where emissions from traditional biomass cookstoves, vegetation fires, traditional charcoal manufacture, road transport (including dust from unpaved roads) and open burning of municipal solid waste were found to be particularly important components of the inventory. The application of the GAPF-EI approach to Côte d’Ivoire has demonstrated its utility in addressing sources of particular relevance to LMICs in addition to providing a user-friendly, transparent and flexible EI preparation tool.

低收入和中等收入国家（LMIC）通常缺乏必要的工具，指南和能力，无法编制空气污染物排放清单（EI）。可靠的EI是识别关键排放源的重要先决条件，是建模大气传输和空气污染物影响以及确定适当的缓解政策的输入。公开可用的全球大气污染论坛排放清单（GAPF-EI）工具满足了LMIC对用户友好工具的需求，该工具允许国内从业人员编制自己的EI。涵盖的物种包括SO ₂，NO _X，CO，NMVOC，CH ₄，NH ₃，PM ₁₀，PM _2.5，黑碳，有机碳和CO₂。因此，该工具的输出可支持制定综合的空气质量和减缓气候变化战略。该工具结合了默认排放因子和符合国际公认方法的清单方法。利用GAPF-EI工具，可以估算与发达国家几乎没有关系或根本不相关，但可能代表低收入和中等收入国家的关键排放源的技术或实践的排放量。本文介绍了GAPF-EI工具及其在科特迪瓦的应用，发现传统生物质炊具，植被大火，传统木炭制造，道路运输（包括未铺砌道路的灰尘）和城市固体废物的露天燃烧产生的排放量库存中特别重要的组成部分。