Per capita carbon footprint

Variable Definition

Per capita carbon (CO2) footprint of a geography. Interpretation: total and per capita carbon emission (carbon footprint) in a geography based on national or subnational carbon footprint, the geography’s population, purchasing power and expenditure patterns. Higher values indicate greater carbon emissions, which may indicate more emissions of co-pollutants (e.g. NOx, SOx) and anthropogenic heat. To get per capita carbon footprint, we first derived gridded population counts by dividing GGMCF’s total carbon footprint by its per capita carbon footprint. We then calculated total population in a geography using area-weighted sum. We finally calculated a geography’s capita carbon footprint by dividing the geography’s total carbon footprint by its total population.