Nowadays, the emission of CO2 is key issue undertaken by politicians, scientists and decision makers at each level. Especially, after Climate Summit in Katowice (COP24), the shape of energy system seems to be crucial question. The environmental aspects appear in everyday conversations (what should be greeted with satisfaction).
Raising awareness about our common responsibility for the environment depends on available information. The professional discussion about the above mentioned issues depends on availability of the data. It is not a new problem, that many topics are not enough described, especially if they are quantitative issues (in case of qualitative ones, no one is surprised). For today post I chose the statistical data concerns emission of CO2 and comes from International Energy Agency publication (2017) available here.
Chart 1 presents CO2 emissions from fuel combustion in millions tonnes in the period of 1975-2015. It is observed the decreasion of emmision’s growth between 2000-2005 in Europe and North America and the real reduction of it in last 10 years.
Source: IEA. (2017). CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. Highlights.
Because this analysis distinguishes the factor due to the geographical area the real numbers can be misleading. The most appropriate is to show the phenomenon of the emission per capita (Chart 2).
Source: IEA. (2017). CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. Highlights.
However, the total emission of CO2 was the lowest in Asia and Oceania (Chart 1), the emission per capita is the lowest in Europe. It is worth to underline that the rate of decreasing is also the highest in Europe (in other words: Europeans do the most for the reduction).
This article was written within EU project entitled “Using innovation procurement and capacity building to promote circular economy” (Circular PP), supported by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme.
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