South Africa | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
Fossil fuel is any hydrocarbon deposit that can be burned for heat or power, such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas. This is the sum total of all fossil fuel emissions (solid fuel consumption, liquid fuel consumption, gas fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring). The U.S. Department of Energy’s carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) calculates annual anthropogenic emissions from data on fossil fuel consumption (from the United Nations Statistics Division’s World Energy Data Set) and world cement manufacturing (from the U.S. Bureau of Mine’s Cement Manufacturing Data Set). Carbon dioxide emissions, often calculated and reported as elemental carbon, were converted to actual carbon dioxide mass by multiplying them by 3.664 (the ratio of the mass of carbon to that of carbon dioxide). Although estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions are probably accurate within 10 percent (as calculated from global average file chemistry and use), country estimates may have larger error bounds. Trends estimated from a consistent time series tend to be more accurate than individual values. Each year the CDIAC recalculates the entire time series since 1949, incorporating recent findings and corrections. Estimates exclude fuels supplied to ships and aircraft in international transport because of the difficulty of apportioning he fuels among benefitting countries. The ratio of carbon dioxide per unit of energy shows carbon intensity, which is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of using one unit of energy in the process of production.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of South Africa
Records
53
Source
South Africa | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
97934.569 1960
102213.958 1961
105767.281 1962
109826.65 1963
119657.877 1964
128260.659 1965
128356.001 1966
133885.837 1967
138084.552 1968
143280.691 1969
149763.947 1970
168568.323 1971
171725.61 1972
173533.441 1973
176734.732 1974
185201.835 1975
193115.221 1976
199950.509 1977
202099.371 1978
218908.899 1979
228454.1 1980
257368.395 1981
280749.187 1982
292230.564 1983
315948.72 1984
324214.138 1985
330855.075 1986
329025.242 1987
343055.184 1988
341108.007 1989
333513.65 1990
346337.149 1991
324852.196 1992
342549.138 1993
358929.627 1994
353458.463 1995
358639.934 1996
371327.754 1997
372218.835 1998
371034.394 1999
368610.507 2000
362743.307 2001
347686.605 2002
380810.616 2003
427132.16 2004
396116.674 2005
424843.952 2006
443648.328 2007
464957.265 2008
499016.361 2009
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South Africa | CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, total (thousand metric tons)
Fossil fuel is any hydrocarbon deposit that can be burned for heat or power, such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas. This is the sum total of all fossil fuel emissions (solid fuel consumption, liquid fuel consumption, gas fuel consumption, cement production and gas flaring). The U.S. Department of Energy’s carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) calculates annual anthropogenic emissions from data on fossil fuel consumption (from the United Nations Statistics Division’s World Energy Data Set) and world cement manufacturing (from the U.S. Bureau of Mine’s Cement Manufacturing Data Set). Carbon dioxide emissions, often calculated and reported as elemental carbon, were converted to actual carbon dioxide mass by multiplying them by 3.664 (the ratio of the mass of carbon to that of carbon dioxide). Although estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions are probably accurate within 10 percent (as calculated from global average file chemistry and use), country estimates may have larger error bounds. Trends estimated from a consistent time series tend to be more accurate than individual values. Each year the CDIAC recalculates the entire time series since 1949, incorporating recent findings and corrections. Estimates exclude fuels supplied to ships and aircraft in international transport because of the difficulty of apportioning he fuels among benefitting countries. The ratio of carbon dioxide per unit of energy shows carbon intensity, which is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of using one unit of energy in the process of production.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of South Africa
Records
53
Source