Global, regional, and national annual estimates of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring have been calculated through 1995, some as far back as 1751. These estimates, derived primarily from energy statistics published by the United Nations, were calculated using the methods of Marland and Rotty (1984). Cement production estimates from the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Mines were used to estimate CO2 emitted during cement production. Emissions from gas flaring were derived primarily from U.N. data but were supplemented with data from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, Rotty (1974), and with a few national estimates provided by G. Marland.
At present, this subdirectory provides three files containing the global (global95.ems), regional (region95.ems), and national (nation95.ems) CO2 emissions estimates, along with a country code file (country.cod) and a region definition file (region.def).
Bob Andres
Institute of Northern Engineering
School of Engineering
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5910
Cathy Johnston
Chemical Engineering Department
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996