[뉴스스크랩][The Guardian] 표로 보는 국가별 CO2(이산화탄소) 배출량 현황 (World carbon dioxide emissions data by country)

(원문출처 : http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/31/world-carbon-dioxide-emissions-country-data-co2#_)

2011년 The Guardian에 소개된 2009년  국가별 CO2 배출량입니다.

(본지에서 인용한 EIA의 자료를 찾아보니 2009년 자료가 최근 것임..[EIA 바로가기])

민방위 훈련에서 지구온난화 교육 받을 때는 미국이 세계 1위라고 했는데..

본 자료를 보면 1위가 중국...

그리고 우리나라가 세계 8위의 탄소배출국라고 한다.

캐나다와 이란, 영국과 비슷한 수준이라고 하니 영토의 크기에 비해 우리 나라의 탄소배출 역시 많은 개선이 이루어져야 할 수준이다.

게다가 우리나라는 2008년보다 순위가 상승했다.

전세계의 CO2배출량과 국가의 순위가 표로 잘 정리되어 있어 유용한 자료라 생각된다.

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World carbon dioxide emissions data by country: China speeds ahead of the rest

World carbon emissions by country data is out. See how the US has gone down in CO2 production - and who has gone up

World carbon dioxide emissions are one way of measuring a country's economic growth too.

And the latest figures - published by the respected Energy Information Administration - show CO2 emissions from energy consumption - the vast majority of Carbon Dioxide produced.

A reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions is not only the goal of environmentalists but also of pretty much every government in the world. Currently 192 countries have adopted the Kyoto protocol. One fo the aims is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% of the 1990 levels by 2012 collectively forcountries starred on this list.

The map, above (you can get it as a PDF file here) is produced by Guardian graphic artists Mark McCormick and Paul Scruton. It shows a world where established economies have large - but declining - carbon emissions. While the new economic giants are growing rapidly. This newly-released data is from 2009 - the latest available.

On pure emissions alone, the key points are:

• China emits more CO2 than the US and Canada put together - up by 171% since the year 2000

• The US has had declining CO2 for two years running, the last time the US had declining CO2 for 3 years running was in the 1980s

• The UK is down one place to tenth on the list, 8% on the year. The country is now behind Iran, South Korea, Japan and Germany

• India is now the world's third biggest emitter of CO2 - pushing Russia into fourth place

• The biggest decrease from 2008-2009 is Ukraine - down 28%. The biggest increase is the Cook Islands - up 66.7%

But that is only one way to look at the data - and it doesn't take account of how many people live in each country. If you look at per capita emissions, a different picture emerges where:

• Some of the world's smallest countries and islands emit the most per person - the highest being Gibraltar with 152 tonnes per person

• The US is still number one in terms of per capita emissions among the big economies - with 18 tonnes emitted per person

• China, by contrast, emits under six tonnes per person, India only 1.38

• For comparison, the whole world emits 4.49 tonnes per person

There are other sources of emissions data too, if you want to compare - albeit not as up-to-date:

• The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gathers the data on world carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This is only available up to 2008.

• the International Energy Agency (IEA) has global carbon emissions data up to 2008

But what can we say about this data and how close we are to the collective targets in the Kyoto agreement?

The Kyoto protocol target emission does not include, but this EIA data does. You can't tell this from the notes on the data, but the EIA confirmed to us this was the case.

We can determine what the so called 'bunker fuels' are from the data here.

But only looking at carbon dioxide emissions doesn't give us the total for all greenhouse gases.

So we'll have to wait until the UNFCCC publishes the results of global greenhouse gasses collated data before we can draw any firm conclusions about meeting the Kyoto agreements.

The full data is below, going right back to 1980. What can you do with it?