Pollution

Consumption-based CO₂ emissions

Carbon dioxide attributed to where goods and services are consumed, territorial inventories adjusted for trade, not a second production map.

Fix Planet overview choropleth of consumption-based CO₂: slate-blue countries in a higher-footprint orientation, other land left unclassed: not a territorial CO₂ map and not an OWID export — Map: Fix Planet from Global Carbon Project consumption-based carbon dioxide data, 2023. Units: tonnes per year. Boundaries: Natural Earth.

Pollution trade-adjusted GCP / OWID

What

Consumption-based CO₂ (also called trade-adjusted or footprint emissions) from the Global Carbon Project, mapped by Our World in Data. Emissions from fossil fuels and industry are reassigned from the country of production to the country of final consumption when goods and services cross borders. Land-use change is usually excluded from this series.

Why on this shelf

Territorial CO₂ emissions answers where the CO₂ was produced. This card answers a different question: where was the lifestyle and demand that drove those emissions? Importers can look large on this map and small on the territorial one. It is not a second production choropleth and not a smog map.

How to read it

Compare totals and per-capita carefully. A high consumption total is not a moral verdict and not the same object as PM2.5. Methods and country coverage matter: open the OWID map and the Global Carbon Budget notes. This card is a doorway to the living GCP/OWID product; the preview is a Fix Planet overview after the named source.

Caveats

A high consumption total is not a moral verdict and not PM2.5. Land-use change is usually excluded. This is not territorial CO₂ and not a methane inventory.

Sources

License

The preview is a Fix Planet overview of consumption-based (trade-adjusted) CO₂, not Our World in Data’s marketing crop and not a second territorial-CO₂ map. Attribute Global Carbon Project / Our World in Data (CC BY). Open the OWID map for the interactive layer.

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