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Re: The annual CO2 emmisions (in CT-e) for Australia 1990-2008

Date: Mon Feb 22 14:31:41 2010
Posted By: Edward Hyer, Post-doc/Fellow, Aerosol Group, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Lab
Area of science: Environment
ID: 1262642305.En
Message:

This link: http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/cp/cli_cou_036.pdf
gives
us two pieces of information we need:

1) Australia emits 687 metric tonnes of CO2 for each million dollars of
Gross Domestic Product ($US inflation-adjusted from 1995).

2) Australian energy intensity (CO2 / GDP) has changed very slightly since
1990.

With these two pieces, we can simply add the annual GDP, from here: http://www.nationmaster.com/time.php?stat=eco_gdp-economy-gdp&country=as-australia

Note you will want to normalize these data based on 1995, to get the
currency adjustment correct.


If you can get this book from a library, it has GDP forecasts you can use:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/h4q53l5548g78554/

As far as forecast data, using the relationship with GDP would make for a
"business-as-usual" scenario. Changes in Australia's energy sources would
alter this relationship. Note that at present fossil fuels account for 90%
of Australia's energy: http://www.australia2020.gov.au/topics/docs/economy.pdf

Hope this helps!



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