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CO2 Emissions by Fuel Type (Line Chart)

Provided by: Our World in Data |Published on: July 20, 2021

Graphs/Tables Grades 6-8, 9-12

Synopsis

This interactive graph and chart provide students with the opportunity to explore CO2 emissions by fuel type for any country or continent beginning in 1750.
Students can view the data on emissions from oil, coal, flaring, gas, cement, and others.

Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Geography, Mathematics

Authors: Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser

Region: Global

Languages: English

Positives

This resource provides a large amount of information that can be customized and downloaded.
The charts are easy to read and the data table can be sorted.
The information is playable in a time-lapse line chart, which gives a good indication of the speed of emissions from the Industrial Revolution.
This resource can also be viewed as a stacked area chart.

Additional Prerequisites

Students should know how to read a data table and line graph.
Teachers may need to explain that flaring is burning off a byproduct of gas and oil when extracting oil.

Differentiation

There could be many uses for this resource in a variety of courses, including cross-curricular connections for math, social studies, and economics.
As a starter activity for a lesson on climate change, students could pick a country, look at the data, and present how their countries' CO2 emissions have changed over three time points (earliest recorded, 2000, last recorded). Students could also work collaboratively on this.
Alternatively, students could pick a country, look at the data, and present how their countries' CO2emissions by fuel type have changed over time.

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