Global Carbon Emissions

This database contains total and per capita territorial, consumption, and transfer emissions for countries since 1960. 

• Territorial emissions reflect carbon dioxide emissions attributed to the country in which they physically occur
• Consumption emissions reflect carbon dioxide emissions occurring anywhere in the world attributed to the country in which goods and services are consumed. These emissions are adjusted for trade
• Transfer emissions reflect the net difference between territorial and consumption emissions; representing the emissions from the production of exports minus the emissions from the production of imports and are sometimes called the “balance of emissions embodied in trade.

• Coal emissions reflect carbon dioxide emissions from the oxidation of coal
• Oil emissions reflect carbon dioxide emissions from the oxidation of oil
• Gas emissions reflect carbon dioxide emissions from the oxidation of gas
• Gas flaring emissions reflect carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of vented natural gas and the venting of CO2 in the oil and gas industry converting methane into carbon dioxide
• Cement emissions reflect carbon dioxide emissions from chemical reactions in the manufacture of cement.

For more information on these defintions, see: Section 2.1.3, Global Carbon Budget 1959-2018, Friedlingstein et al. 2019.