Greenhouse Gas Emissions Statistics, 1990-2017
Total GHG emissions were 526.3 Mt CO2 equivalent in 2017
The greenhouse gas inventory results revealed that the overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as CO2 equivalent for the year 2017 were 526.3 million tonnes (Mt). The energy sector accounted for the largest share of GHG emissions at 72.2%. The energy sector was followed by the industrial processes and product use with 12.6%, the agricultural activities with 11.9% and the waste with 3.3%.
GHG emissions per capita increased
Total greenhouse gas emissions as CO2 equivalent increased by 140.1% in 2017 compared to the emissions in 1990. CO2 equivalent emissions per capita were 6.6 tonnes in 2017, while it was 4 tonnes for the year 1990.
Biggest share in total CO2 emissions was observed in energy sector
The biggest share with 86.3% of total CO2 emissions was due to energy sector when 34% of total CO2 emissions was due to electricity and heat production which is a sub-category of energy sector. The remaining 13.4% of these emissions originated from industrial processes and product use and 0.3% of them come from the agricultural activities and waste sector in 2017.
62.3% of CH4 emissions were originated from agricultural activities
The highest portion of CH4 emissions was originated from agricultural activities with 62.3% while 21.3% was from waste, 16.4% was from energy and 0.03% was from industrial processes and product use(1).
Agricultural activities had the biggest share in total N2O emissions
71% of N2O emissions originated from agricultural activities, while 15.1%, 10.7% and 3.3% of the N2O emissions originated from waste, energy, and industrial processes and product use, respectively(1).
The next release on this subject will be in April 2020.
EXPLANATIONS
The greenhouse gas emission inventory includes direct GHGs as carbondioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrousoxide (N2O), F-gases, and indirect GHGs as nitrogenoxides (NOx), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC), carbonmonoxide (CO) and sulphurdioxide (SO2) emissions originated from energy, industrial processes and product use, agricultural activities and waste.
(1) Figures may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
Source: TÜİK
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