change between 1990 – 2016 china +292% US +3,7% EU -20% (UK -32%, Germany -24%) India +276% Russia -34% (source: BP, Bloomberg).Continue Reading

This gure shows greenhouse gas emissions (positive values) and sinks (negative values), by source, in the United States from 1990 to 2014. For consistency, emissions are expressed in million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. All electric power emissions are grouped together in the “Electricity generation” sector, so other sectors such as “Residential” and “Commercial”...Continue Reading

WHY DOES IT MATTER? As greenhouse gas emissions from human activities increase, they build up in the atmosphere and warm the climate, leading to many other changes around the world—in the atmosphere, on land, and in the oceans. The indicators in other chapters of this report illustrate many of these changes. Such changes have both...Continue Reading