{"id":361,"date":"2022-07-21T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etechmonkey.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2022-07-22T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T23:28:05","slug":"carbon-footprints-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechmonkey.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/carbon-footprints-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon footprints around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
After looking into emissions across different regions and income levels for the family planning<\/a> post and the consumer sustainability<\/a> post, I was super curious to explore a detailed breakdown of these emissions numbers. How does the US have some of the highest emissions per capita at 14 tons<\/a>, more than double \u2013 or even triple<\/em> --- some of its developed nations counterparts like Sweden (3.8 tons), the UK (4.9 tons), or Japan (8.2 tons)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I first suspected that some of this was due to the US\u2019 high oil and gas production. And indeed, many of the countries with the highest emissions per capita are some of the world\u2019s largest oil producers (Qatar, 37 tons, Saudi Arabia, 18 tons, Kuwait, 20 tons) but the correlation isn\u2019t perfect. Norway, which lands in the top 5<\/a> for most oil production per capita, only produces 7 tons CO2 per capita. Russia (10 tons) also comes in below the US despite ranking higher in oil production per capita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So lifestyles are playing a part in driving these emissions numbers. But to what degree? To test this, I wanted to see if I could replicate emissions per capita for several countries using average household budgets, miles traveled, and emissions factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hoped to understand better: <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 7 countries I studied were: US, UK, Sweden, India, Argentina, Nigeria, and Japan. This group had good availability of data, \u201cdifferent-enough\u201d geographies and lifestyles, and a wide distribution of emissions per capita numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are the results (and for those curious on methodology, that\u2019s at the bottom of this post):<\/p>\n\n\n\n