File:Carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion of Annex I Kyoto Protocol Parties 1990-2009.png

Summary

This graph shows the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/carbon_dioxide" class="extiw" title="en:carbon dioxide">carbon dioxide</a> (CO₂) emissions from fuel combustion of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change#Annex_I_countries" class="extiw" title="en:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change">Annex I</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" class="extiw" title="en:Kyoto Protocol">Kyoto Protocol</a> Parties between 1990 and 2009. The 2008-2012 Kyoto target is also plotted. The graph is based on data from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Energy_Agency" class="extiw" title="en:International Energy Agency">International Energy Agency</a> (IEA, 2011). The Kyoto target is calculated as a percentage of 1990 CO₂ emissions from fuel combustion only. It therefore does not represent the total target for the six-gas basket (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" class="extiw" title="en:Kyoto Protocol">Kyoto Protocol</a> for details). The target as presented here assumes that the reduction targets are spread equally across all gases (IEA, 2011).

The graph shows that the emissions of Annex I Kyoto Protocol (KP) Parties have been uneven between 1990 and 2009. In 1990, emissions were about 8,800 million tonnes (Mt) CO₂, declined then stabilized over the 1990s, grew slowly in the 2000s, reaching about 8,100 MtCO₂ in 2007, then fell to about 7,500 MtCO₂ in 2009. Emissions in 2008 and 2009 were below the Kyoto target of about 8,400 MtCO₂, which applies between 2008-2012.

For Annex I "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#Intergovernmental_Emissions_Trading" class="extiw" title="en:Kyoto Protocol">Economies in Transition</a>" (EIT) KP Parties (i.e., the former economies of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" class="extiw" title="en:Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>), emissions declined between 1990-1999 (1990 emissions = about 4,000 MtCO₂; 1999 emissions = about 2,500 MtCO₂), grew slowly up to 2007 (2007 emissions = about 2,700 MtCO₂), and then declined in 2009 (about 2,500 MtCO₂).

For Annex II KP Parties (i.e., Annex I KP Parties minus the EIT KP Parties), emissions in 1990 were about 4,800 MtCO₂, gradually increased and peaked around 2004 (about 5,500 MtCO₂), before falling to about 5,000 MtCO₂ in 2009.

References: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iea.org/co2highlights/CO2highlights.pdf">CO₂ Emissions From Fuel Combustion: Highlights (2011 edition),</a> author: International Energy Agency (IEA), publisher: IEA, Paris, France, p.13. The IEA has made data from this publication freely available to download as an Excel (XLS) spreadsheet <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iea.org/co2highlights/CO2highlights.xls">(1,008 KB).</a>

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