The IPCC’s latest assessment on climate and the number of news stories about it seem to have gotten the attention of many, at least among my friends. Several have asked about the global sources of greenhouse gas emissions. As is often the case, I think that good data visualization can convey far more than lots of sentences or bullets. Here’s a flowchart of shares of world greenhouse gas emissions in 2000 from the World Resources Institute:
For reference, the overall scale is about 42 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. If you’re a serious consumer of such data, you might want to read the rest of the fine print.
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