World Regional CO2 Emissions for 1900, 1950, and 2000

By Kerri Bessinger

Purpose:To show the world’s CO2 emissions in order to

see not only which regions of the world emit more CO2, but to also show the increase of emissions in 100 years.

Method Used:– Took all the countries and placed them into

regions by creating a new column in arc view.– On the map adjacent boundaries of countries

were dissolved in the same region so that it would only have boundaries between the different regions.

Emissions are in Million Metric Tons of Carbon

RegionAbbreviation

for Region1900 CO2

Emissions1950 CO2

Emissions2000 CO2

Emissions

Africa AF 1 26 224

Central America, South America, Caribbean Nations, and Greenland LA 1 45 382

Centrally Planned Asia CPA 0 22 831

Eastern Europe EE 53 249 775

Far East FE 4 28 726

Germany GER 89 139 214

Middle East ME 0 5 364

North America NA 187 733 1,648

Oceania OC 9 46 429

Western Europe WE 190 283 679

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Thousand metric tons of carbon0 - 225000225001 - 430000430001 - 730000730001 - 850000850001 - 1650000

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2000 Regional CO2 Emissions

Sources– Marland, G., T.A. Boden, and R.J.

Andres. 2003. Global, Regional, and National CO2 Emissions. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

– Web Site Address: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/emis/meth_reg.htm