Transforming Renewable Energy into Hydrocarbons
Road Transport
11.9%
Global CO2 emissions from transport
This is based on global transport emissions in 2018, which totalled 8 billion tonnes CO2.
Transport accounts for 24% of CO2 emissions from energy.
74.5% of transport emissions
come from road vehicles
Road (passenger)
Road (freight)
(includes cars, motorcycles, buses, and taxis)
45.1%
(includes trucks and lorries)
29.4%
Of passenger emissions:
60% from international;"
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Aviation Shipping
40% from domestic flights
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(81% passenger:
19% from freight)
11.6%
10.6%
Rail.
1%
Other-
(mainly transport of oil, gas, water, steam and
other materials via pipelines)
2.2%
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Global greenhouse gas emissions by sector Our World
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This is shown for the year 2016 - global greenhouse gas emissions were 49.4 billion tonnes CO₂eq.
Livestock &
Agricultural
4.1%
soils
Rice cultivation
1.3%
Crop burning
Deforestation
3.5%
Chemical &
Iron and steel (7.2%) 3.6%
manure (5.8%)
Agriculture,
Forestry &
Land Use
18.4%
01%
Grassland
Cropland
2.2%
Landfills
1.9%
Wastewater (1.3%)
Chemicals
2.2%
Cement
Waste
3.2%
Industry
5.2%
3%
petrochemical
Food & tobacco (1%)
Paper & pulp (0.6%)
Machinery (0.5%)
Energy use in Industry (24.2
Other industry
10.6%
Energy in Agriculture
& Fishing (1.7%)
Fugitive emissions
from energy production
5.8%
7.8%
combustion
Unallocated fuel
Energy
73.2%
Energy use in buildings (17.5%)
Commercial (6.6%)
Residential buildings (10.9%)
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Source: Climate Watch, the World Resources Institute (2020).
Transport (16.2%)
Aviation
1.9%
1.7%
Shipping
Pipeline (0.3%)
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