• Consumption-based CO2 emissions - Global Carbon Project (2018)

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  • Consumption-based emissions are national or regional emissions which have been adjusted for trade (i.e. territorial/production emissions minus emissions embedded in exports, plus emissions embedded in imports). If a country's consumption-based emissions are higher than its production emissions it is a net importer of carbon dioxide.

    The underlying source is an updated version of the paper by "Peters et al. (2011). Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008." This updated data is available in the latest version of the Global Carbon Budget.

    Data has been converted by Our World in Data from tonnes of carbon to carbon dioxide (CO₂) using a conversion factor of 3.664.

    Full reference of the updated paper: Peters, GP, Minx, JC, Weber, CL and Edenhofer, O 2011. Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 8903-8908.

    Reference of the full global carbon budget 2018: Corinne Le Quéré, Robbie M. Andrew, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Judith Hauck, Julia Pongratz, Penelope A. Pickers, Jan Ivar Korsbakken, Glen P. Peters, Josep G. Canadell, Almut Arneth, Vivek K. Arora, Leticia Barbero, Ana Bastos, Laurent Bopp, Frédéric Chevallier, Louise P. Chini, Philippe Ciais, Scott C. Doney, Thanos Gkritzalis, Daniel S. Goll, Ian Harris, Vanessa Haverd, Forrest M. Hoffman, Mario Hoppema, Richard A. Houghton, George Hurtt, Tatiana Ilyina, Atul K. Jain, Truls Johannesen, Chris D. Jones, Etsushi Kato, Ralph F. Keeling, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Peter Landschützer, Nathalie Lefèvre, Sebastian Lienert, Zhu Liu, Danica Lombardozzi, Nicolas Metzl, David R. Munro, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Shin-ichiro Nakaoka, Craig Neill, Are Olsen, Tsueno Ono, Prabir Patra, Anna Peregon, Wouter Peters, Philippe Peylin, Benjamin Pfeil, Denis Pierrot, Benjamin Poulter, Gregor Rehder, Laure Resplandy, Eddy Robertson, Matthias Rocher, Christian Rödenbeck, Ute Schuster, Jörg Schwinger, Roland Séférian, Ingunn Skjelvan, Tobias Steinhoff, Adrienne Sutton, Pieter P. Tans, Hanqin Tian, Bronte Tilbrook, Francesco N Tubiello, Ingrid T. van der Laan-Luijkx, Guido R. van der Werf, Nicolas Viovy, Anthony P. Walker, Andrew J. Wiltshire, Rebecca Wright, Sönke Zaehle, Bo Zheng: Global Carbon Budget 2018, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 2018b. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2141-2018

  • Entity Year Consumption-based CO₂ emissions (Global Carbon Project (2017))
    Jamaica 2016 3,183,030.0
    Luxembourg 2016 23,718,900.0
    Morocco 2016 64,523,100.0
    Nicaragua 2016 2,263,160.0
    Malawi 2016 2,007,040.0
    Jordan 2016 32,172,100.0
    Qatar 2016 85,252,600.0
    Austria 2016 91,747,600.0
    Norway 2016 48,764,400.0
    Estonia 2016 17,439,100.0
    Belgium 2016 177,257,000.0
    Burkina Faso 2016 1,182,550.0
    Cambodia 2016 15,043,300.0
    Colombia 2016 100,101,000.0
    Lithuania 2016 22,917,400.0
    Botswana 2016 13,501,700.0
    Brazil 2016 523,222,000.0
    Indonesia 2016 504,994,000.0
    Ghana 2016 11,115,600.0
    Georgia 2016 6,232,140.0
    Mongolia 2016 26,310,300.0
    Non KP Annex B 2016 20,142,600,000.0
    OECD 2016 14,061,900,000.0
    Denmark 2016 52,657,700.0
    Guinea 2016 249,152.0
    Oceania 2016 434,810,000.0
    Africa 2016 1,048,900,000.0
    China 2016 8,800,450,000.0
    Armenia 2016 2,706,760.0
    Mozambique 2016 10,664,600.0
    Mexico 2016 526,388,000.0
    Madagascar 2016 2,153,240.0
    Cyprus 2016 7,730,650.0
    Kuwait 2016 92,073,600.0
    Belarus 2016 68,329,300.0
    Kazakhstan 2016 232,396,000.0
    Mauritius 2016 2,753,000.0
    Laos 2016 6,632,660.0
    Middle East 2016 2,556,200,000.0
    Non-OECD 2016 20,141,100,000.0
    Israel 2016 83,081,200.0
    Bahrain 2016 20,028,000.0
    El Salvador 2016 3,610,950.0
    Honduras 2016 4,519,620.0
    Finland 2016 69,591,800.0
    Greece 2016 63,349,700.0
    Bolivia 2016 5,133,940.0
    Hong Kong 2016 120,715,000.0
    Poland 2016 298,417,000.0
    Dominican Republic 2016 9,160,440.0
    Zimbabwe 2016 4,672,100.0
    Portugal 2016 54,803,100.0
    Oman 2016 68,321,000.0
    Albania 2016 2,801,250.0
    Nepal 2016 15,501,900.0
    Japan 2016 1,412,270,000.0
    Egypt 2016 226,519,000.0
    Canada 2016 574,025,000.0
    Philippines 2016 143,031,000.0
    Central America 2016 87,897,400.0
    Asia 2016 15,995,500,000.0
    Czech Republic 2016 106,237,000.0
    Kenya 2016 14,462,400.0
    Croatia 2016 18,785,300.0
    Australia 2016 376,176,000.0
    Benin 2016 4,808,160.0
    North America 2016 6,819,330,000.0
    Namibia 2016 6,480,940.0
    Azerbaijan 2016 41,835,100.0
    Ecuador 2016 46,805,800.0
    Malta 2016 4,763,570.0
    Latvia 2016 12,746,400.0
    EU-28 2016 4,165,050,000.0
    Germany 2016 887,756,000.0
    Brunei 2016 9,576,330.0
    Bulgaria 2016 38,511,800.0
    New Zealand 2016 39,262,400.0
    Cote d'Ivoire 2016 5,903,520.0
    Europe 2016 6,053,060,000.0
    Malaysia 2016 257,883,000.0
    Argentina 2016 206,312,000.0
    Italy 2016 456,530,000.0
    Peru 2016 73,552,100.0
    Ireland 2016 43,179,200.0
    Netherlands 2016 152,267,000.0
    Costa Rica 2016 6,505,160.0
    Cameroon 2016 4,461,150.0
    Hungary 2016 63,982,700.0
    France 2016 448,668,000.0
    Ethiopia 2016 9,744,350.0
    Iran 2016 573,148,000.0
    Kyrgyzstan 2016 9,484,190.0
    Guatemala 2016 8,106,830.0
    Panama 2016 19,053,100.0
    Paraguay 2016 5,268,050.0
    KP Annex B 2016 14,063,200,000.0
    Nigeria 2016 54,444,700.0
    Bangladesh 2016 109,635,000.0
    India 2016 2,217,460,000.0
    Chile 2016 92,323,800.0
  • Sources

    Data Published By: Updated from Peters, GP, Minx, JC, Weber, CL and Edenhofer, O 2011. Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 8903-8908.

    Data publisher source:

    Link: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/18/data.htm

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