Project Summary
Greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) leads to the dramatic global warming and undesired climate changes that affect all the countries and everyone. Since the effects of global warming can be severe and some negative consequences are evidenced ,the reduction of greenhouse gas emission has become a shared goal for all the countries, and multiple international meetings and agreements have set the target of greenhouse gas emission reduction.
A country's greenhouse gas emission data is considered reflective to its development strategy and emission policy, so that, this study is conducted in global scale, the data of 263 countries or regions are involved to provide a insight of the world emission. Two parameters of the greenhouse gas emission are focused in this study, which are N2O emission and CO2 emission. The study compares the emission and GDP data for all countries in order to see the pattern and trend of their emissions. R software is utilized in this study for statistical analysis. |
Through statistical analysis of the emission data and GDP for each country from 2001 to 2012, the highest per-capita CO2 emission is observed contained by countries with relatively high GDP with large energy industries, while the highest per-capita N2O emission is contained by countries with lower GDP which are agriculture sector-dependent. The emission trend of each country varies, and the growth/reduction rate of CO2 and N2O emissions is considered related to multiple factors, the relationship between trend and GDP is not considered in the study. |