Problem
Use data from OECD Statistics to answer each question.
The data to use is greenhouse gas emissions and historical population from 2010-2020 for six countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Sweden, and the United States.
1. What are the eight different components that makeup greenhouse gases data provided by the OECD?
2. What is the main contributor to CO2 emissions?
3. What is LULUCF and why is it excluded from the data?
4. Calculate and plot annual (total of all types) greenhouse gas emissions per capita for each of the years noted above and each of the six countries. Plot time on the x-axis and per capital greenhouse gas emissions on the y-axis. (You may either do this by hand or using excel or some other graphing application.)
5. Which country has the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions? Which has the lowest? Which factors do you think help explain your findings and why? (In addition to geographical and industrial factors, you might want to look at.