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128 terms of CO 2 FF-IN, the US had the highest per-capita emission at 20.9 t CO 2 ppy, fol- lowed by Germany and the UK at 13.3 ...

129 Table 3.2 has some additional numbers worth noting. The top 12 emitters contrib- uted 65.3 % of the global total in 1990, an ...

130 3.3 Future Emissions Future emissions of GHGs are now examined. As noted in the Introduction, our focus is on emissions of C ...

131 climate change that are addressed by the Paris Climate Agreement. All emissions are expressed in CO 2 -eq, found using GWPs ...

132 where IC = (CO 2 -eq emission)/(GDP). Past data are used to infer trends in IC, which are projected forward in time. The wor ...

133 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 JRC BAU JRC INDCs JRC 2 °C Path PBL BAU Global Emission (Gt CO −eq) 2 a Business As Usual RCP 8.5 RCP ...

134 INDCs extend to 2030. The INDC-specific projections of CO 2 -eq emissions extend to the target year of each submission.^20 F ...

135 Figure 3.10 shows our projected global emissions of CO 2 -eq (grey) for a scenario we call Attain and Improve, Unconditional ...

136 Figure 3.11 shows projections for the final scenario, Attain and Improve, Unconditional and Conditional (AIUNC+COND). Here, ...

137 PBL projection for 2030, and the JRC time series, both of which consider unconditional and conditional INDCs. Our analysis o ...

138 were used. For 1950 onward, global population is based on 2015 revision of data assembled by the Population Division of the ...

139 USSR sum in 1992, times the total for USSR value for earlier years. The change in political boundaries for the rest of the w ...

140 In all cases, GDP is based on purchasing power parity in units of 10^12 2010 US dol- lars (USD). In other words, we use carb ...

141 Fig. 3.12 Atmospheric GHG emission maps, Paris INDCs, 2030. National emissions of CO 2 FF + CO 2 LUC + CH 4 + N 2 O in units ...

142 Figure 3.8c shows per-capita emissions. Per-capita carbon emissions were found using mid-fertility future population estimat ...

143 world, at the value calculated using the mid-fertility forecast, then re-computing CO 2 -eq emission for either the high-fer ...

14 4 countries that submitted carbon emission intensity targets, such as China and India, for all years after the specified end ...

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