CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuels and Land-Use Change for Seven Countries

Table 5 provides data on CO₂ emissions from fossil-fuel combustion, and from land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) for the seven countries with the highest CO₂ emissions in 1997.

Table 5

Note: The emissions due to land-use change shown in this table are estimates of changes in carbon stock, i.e., the result of measuring the amount of carbon in forests at two different points in time and dividing the difference by the number of years between the two measurements. Negative numbers indicate LULUCF acts as a net remover rather than source of atmospheric CO2. * Data are for 1992. ** Data are for 1991. *** Data are for 1996. Source: Information on fossil-fuel emissions is from Marland, et al., 2001. Information on land-use change emissions is from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change website accessed at www.unfccc.de/resource/index.html on April 17, 2001. Click here for a larger version of this image.