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World GHG emissions - by country


Here we look at changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from around the world by country in two ways:


Change in absolute amount of GHG


The figure below shows the net change in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the top 30 Annex I emitting countries that report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from 1990 to 2008 (1)

The figure also includes estimates for China and India. Neither of these are Annex I countries; they are not required to report their emissions to the UNFCCC. Also, because of data availability, estimates for China and India are for different years that the other countries:

  • China - estimates are for 1990 and 2005 (2)
  • India - estimates are for 1994 and 2005 (3)

The economies of both China and India expanded significantly over this period.


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Percent change


The figure below shows the percentage change in GHG emissions for the Annex I countries that report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from 1990 to 2007 (1)

Note that:

  • Canada had the sixth largest % growth in GHG over this period of countries reporting.
  • The graph does not include China or India.
  • Many of the countries that showed declines are Eastern European countries whose economies shrank significantly after the collapse of the Soviet Union.


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NOTE: These data are without LULUCF. LULUCF stands for "Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry".