Angola's Sources of CO2 Emissions
Key Insights
2024 CO2 Emissions Profile
In 2024, Angola's CO2 emissions totalled around 98.6 megatonnes CO2e. Land-use emissions dominated, at roughly 76.3 megatonnes CO2 and 77.4% of the national total, declining by about 3.8 megatonnes CO2 per year over the ten years to 2024. Oil contributed around 15.6 megatonnes CO2 (15.8%) and edged down, while other fossil sources accounted for about 5.0 megatonnes CO2 (5.1%) and fell more sharply. Gas was small at around 1.8 megatonnes CO2 (1.8%), despite a modest upward ten-year trend.
Historic Oil Emissions
Oil emissions became measurable around 1950, at roughly 0.1 megatonnes CO2, and generally increased to around 3 megatonnes CO2 by the late 1990s, with fluctuations along the way. Growth accelerated after the mid-2000s, reaching a peak of roughly 17.4 megatonnes CO2 in 2013. Emissions then varied at a lower level, ending at around 15.6 megatonnes CO2 in 2024.
Historic Gas Emissions
Gas emissions began at around 0.1 megatonnes CO2 in 1970 and rose gradually to roughly 0.3 megatonnes CO2 by the late 1980s, before jumping to about 1.0 megatonnes CO2 in 1990. They then fluctuated near that level for many years, rose to a peak of around 2.5 megatonnes CO2 in 2020, and fell to roughly 1.8 megatonnes CO2 in 2024.
Historic Land-use Emissions
Land-use emissions were around 14 megatonnes CO2 in the early 1850s, briefly reaching nearly 20 megatonnes CO2 before falling into net removals of around 8 megatonnes CO2 in the early 1910s. They then climbed above 100 megatonnes CO2 by the mid-1950s, declined to around 8 megatonnes CO2 in 1984, and rose again to a peak of roughly 131 megatonnes CO2 in 2010. They ended at around 76.3 megatonnes CO2 in 2024.
Historic Other Fossil Emissions
Other fossil emissions were near zero around 1950 and remained low for several decades, though they reached nearly 3 megatonnes CO2 by the late 1980s. They climbed sharply during the 1990s to a peak of roughly 12.7 megatonnes CO2 in 1998, then generally declined despite a partial rebound around the mid-2010s. Emissions fell to about 4.6 megatonnes CO2 in 2020 and ended near 5.0 megatonnes CO2 in 2024.
Background
The chart shows a national breakdown by source of the yearly CO2 emissions from human activities and processes expressed in megatonnes. It is critical to know and track the sources of national CO2 emissions in order to understand their individual impacts on climate change.
The sources of human CO2 emissions are
- CO2 From Fossil Fuels and Industry: coal, oil, gas combustion, other fossil processes
- CO2 From Land-Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry
Coal, oil and gas combustion
Fossil fuel CO2 emissions from the combustion of coal, oil and gas are emitted by processes in electricity generation, transport, industry, and the building sector. All processes can be linked to human activities. Examples include driving cars with combustion engines burning diesel or gas, or electric cars charged by electricity from a power plant that burns coal.
Other fossil processes
Fossil CO2 emissions from other processes include sources like cement manufacturing and production of chemicals and fertilizers. Cement also has an absorption factor highlighted in the absorption breakdown chart.
Land-use change
Human civilization emits CO2 by changing and managing its land. Those emissions come, for example, from deforestation, logging, forest degradation, harvest activities and shifting agriculture cultivation. Land-use change also absorbs considerable amounts of CO2, which is shown in the absorption breakdown chart. Land-use change emits more than it absorbs, so the net effect is still emissions, but less than for coal, oil and gas.
Wikipedia: Greenhouse Gas EmissionsEarth System Science Data: GCP 2020 paper: Section 2.2 Land-use change; Section 2.1 Fossil fuel emissions
IPCC: Annual Report 6, 5.2.1.1 Anthropogenic CO2 emissions
Units and Measures
CO2 emissions are expressed in the total weight in megatonnes per year. 1 Megatonne is equal to 1 million tonnes.
Wikipedia: MegatonneWikipedia: Global warming potential
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