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Kyrgyzstan's Sources of CO₂ Emissions

Name: Kyrgyzstan's Sources of CO2 Emissions
Creator: Climate Change Tracker
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Key Insights

2024 CO₂ Emissions Profile

Kyrgyzstan's 2024 CO₂ emissions totalled around 12.7 megatonnes CO₂e. Coal was the largest source, at roughly 5.7 megatonnes CO₂ (44.6%), followed by oil at around 4.0 megatonnes CO₂ (31.7%). Other fossil sources contributed about 1.3 megatonnes CO₂ (10.0%), land-use 0.9 megatonnes CO₂ (7.3%), and gas 0.8 megatonnes CO₂ (6.3%). Over the ten years to 2024, coal, gas and other fossil emissions increased, while oil and land-use emissions declined.

Historic Coal Emissions

Coal emissions were very low until the early twentieth century, then rose from around 0.2 megatonnes CO₂ in 1925 to a peak of roughly 10.1 megatonnes CO₂ in 1986. They fell sharply to around 1.2 megatonnes CO₂ by 1995, before recovering unevenly to about 5.7 megatonnes CO₂ in 2024.

Historic Oil Emissions

Oil emissions remained small through the first half of the twentieth century, reaching around 0.6 megatonnes CO₂ by 1949. They then climbed to a peak of roughly 9.1 megatonnes CO₂ in 1985, before falling steeply during the following decade. Emissions later recovered, peaked again near 5.6 megatonnes CO₂ in 2018, and ended at around 4.0 megatonnes CO₂ in 2024.

Historic Gas Emissions

Gas emissions were negligible until the mid-1950s, then rose from around 0.1 megatonnes CO₂ to almost 3.7 megatonnes CO₂ by 1988. They peaked at roughly 4.1 megatonnes CO₂ in 1989 and generally declined thereafter, although with some recovery after a low of around 0.5 megatonnes CO₂ in 2014. They reached about 0.8 megatonnes CO₂ in 2024.

Historic Land-use Emissions

Land-use emissions began at roughly 2 megatonnes CO₂ in the nineteenth century and increased to around 3.4 megatonnes CO₂ by 1949. They then surged to a peak of approximately 10.7 megatonnes CO₂ in 1959, before declining sharply. Emissions continued a long downward trend after the mid-1960s, despite reaching about 6.3 megatonnes CO₂ in 1994, and fell to around 0.9 megatonnes CO₂ in 2024.

Historic Other Fossil Emissions

Other fossil emissions were near zero until the mid-twentieth century, rising to around 1.0 megatonnes CO₂ by the late 1970s. They subsequently declined, reaching about 0.2 megatonnes CO₂ in 2001. Emissions then rose steadily, reaching their high point of roughly 1.3 megatonnes CO₂ in 2022 and ending at around 1.3 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 Emissions
Earth 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: Megatonne
Wikipedia: Global warming potential

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About the Data

National CO₂ emissions data through 2024 is from the Global Carbon Project and covers fossil sources and land-use change.

The Key Insights paragraph was created using a large language model (LLM) in combination with our data, historic events, and a structured approach for best accuracy by separating the context generation from the interpretation and narrative.

Data Sources

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