Total CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production are provided in thousand metric tons. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) calculates these annual anthropogenic emissions from UN energy statistics and cement manufacturing data. The entire time series is recalculated each year, incorporating recent findings and corrections.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in total fossil fuel emissions over time for specific countries.
- Calculate carbon intensity by comparing emission totals to energy consumption data.
- Model global emission contributions from solid, liquid, and gas fuel consumption categories.
- Benchmark national emission estimates against global totals, noting potential error bounds.
Strengths
- Data is recalculated annually to incorporate corrections and maintain a consistent time series.
- Emissions are converted to actual carbon dioxide mass using a standard conversion ratio of 3.664.
- Estimates are derived from authoritative sources like UN energy statistics and U.S. cement data.
Limitations
- Country-level estimates may have larger error bounds than global estimates, which are accurate within approximately 10 percent.
- Excludes fuels supplied to international ships and aircraft, potentially undercounting transport-related emissions.
- Specific row counts, column details, and the exact temporal coverage are not provided in the input.
Provenance
- Source
- U.S. Department of Energy’s Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), via Africa Development Indicators / World Bank.
- Collection Method
- Calculated from fossil fuel consumption data (UN Statistics Division’s World Energy Data Set) and world cement manufacturing data (U.S. Bureau of Mines).
- Time Range
- Annual data; time series recalculated from at least 1949 onward.
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Global, with country-level estimates.