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Territorial CO₂ emissions

Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry, by country of production: the Global Carbon Project series.

Our World in Data choropleth of territorial CO₂: China and the United States in the darkest red, other large economies in medium red
Global Carbon Project; Our World in Data. 2023.
Pollution 2023 Global Carbon Project

The Global Carbon Project estimates territorial CO₂ from coal, oil, gas, and cement. Our World in Data maps production-based totals and per-capita rates, and also discusses consumption-based (trade-adjusted) accounts.

Source

Global Carbon Project; Our World in Data
Vintage: 2023
https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/

License

GCP data are published for reuse with citation. We host a cropped Our World in Data map export (CC BY) of territorial CO₂. Open their emissions map for the interactive layer.

How to read it

A large country with heavy industry will dominate a “total emissions” map. Per-capita and consumption-based views change the picture. Bunker fuels and land-use change are often separate lines.

Caveats

Territorial inventories miss emissions embodied in imports. Year-to-year jumps can be methodology or recession, not virtue. This is not a map of local smog.

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