Suriname's Sources of CO2 Emissions
Key Insights
2024 CO2 Emissions Profile
Suriname's CO2 emissions in 2024 totalled around 4.5 megatonnes CO2e. Oil dominated, at about 2.9 megatonnes CO2 or 65.6%, rising by around 0.03 megatonnes CO2 a year over the ten years to 2024. Land-use emissions contributed roughly 1.5 megatonnes CO2, or 33.5%, declining by about 0.13 megatonnes CO2 annually. Gas and other fossil sources were each below 1%, while coal was zero.
Historic Coal Emissions
Coal emissions were negligible at around 0.004 megatonnes CO2 in 1950 and reached zero in 1962. They then rose to a peak of roughly 0.1 megatonnes CO2 in 1974, before declining. Coal emissions had disappeared by the early 2000s and remained at zero in 2009.
Historic Oil Emissions
Oil emissions began at around 0.2 megatonnes CO2 in 1950 and rose strongly through the 1960s, peaking at roughly 2.0 megatonnes CO2 in 1973. They then fluctuated for several decades before climbing again after 2007. Emissions reached their overall peak of around 3.2 megatonnes CO2 in 2014, dipped in 2018, and recovered to about 2.9 megatonnes CO2 in 2024.
Historic Gas Emissions
Gas emissions were very small, at around 0.007 megatonnes CO2 from 2001 through 2017. They then increased gradually, reaching their peak and final level of roughly 0.02 megatonnes CO2 in 2024.
Historic Land-use Emissions
Land-use emissions began at around 0.2 megatonnes CO2 in the 1850s and varied below about 0.6 megatonnes CO2 through the 1950s. They rose substantially to roughly 3.4 megatonnes CO2 in 1992, then fluctuated, reaching an overall peak of around 4.2 megatonnes CO2 in 2012. They declined to about 1.5 megatonnes CO2 in 2024.
Historic Other Fossil Emissions
Other fossil emissions were zero through 1970, then rose to around 0.03 megatonnes CO2 in the early 1970s. They remained small but variable, peaking at roughly 0.05 megatonnes CO2 in 2013. After falling to around 0.008 megatonnes CO2 in 2016, they recovered to about 0.02 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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