CO2 Emissions From Fossil Fuels

Context

Fossil fuel use is the primary source of CO2. The data throws light onto how much fossil fuels are burnt, per year per nation, which amounts to an increase in CO2 every year

Content

Field information

1. Year year Year
2. Country string Nation
3. Total number Total carbon emissions from fossil fuel consumption and cement production (million metric tons of C)
4. Solid Fuel number Carbon emissions from solid fuel consumption
5. Liquid Fuel number Carbon emissions from liquid fuel consumption
6. Gas Fuel number Carbon emissions from gas fuel consumption
7. Cement number Carbon emissions from cement production
8. Gas Flaring number Carbon emissions from gas flaring
9. Per Capita number Per capita carbon emissions (metric tons of carbon; after 1949 only)
10. Bunker fuels number Carbon emissions from bunker fuels (not included in total)

Acknowledgements

Data comes from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). Original csv: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ndp030/CSV-FILES/nation.1751_2014.csv
The data was prepared by the datahub.io project. You could find it here:
https://datahub.io/core/co2-fossil-by-nation

Inspiration

• Exploratory data analysis that gives us an idea of the pollution being caused by different nations in a time-series analysis fashion