Topic: greenhouse gases

This figure shows the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and GDP. Even when emissions targets point downward, they may not necessarily imply a significant departure from business as usual.

An analysis of GHG Intensity targets, underlying indicators, rationales, real-world applications, and implementation issues.

Note: this chart has been updated with 2005 data.

This chart shows how emissions from the major emitting countries contribute to the world total.

Worldwide emissions of CO2 have risen steeply since the start of the industrial revolution, with the largest increases coming after 1945.

Sources & Notes

Provides a comprehensive assessment of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, national, sectoral, and fuel levels and identifies implications of the data for international cooperation on global climate change.

While the ANWR Coastal Plain may make a contribution to U.S. oil supply a decade from now, we cannot rely on ANWR to significantly alleviate our long-term security problems stemming from our heavy reliance on increasingly imported oil.