What drives greenhouse gas emissions? An international scoping review of academic studies in 2010–2019
Abstract Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have increased globally 10% in the last decade, but there is a large variation in emissions trajectories by country. Understanding the main drivers of recent changes in GHG emissions is important to guide effective climate action. Using a narrative scoping rev...
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| description | Abstract Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have increased globally 10% in the last decade, but there is a large variation in emissions trajectories by country. Understanding the main drivers of recent changes in GHG emissions is important to guide effective climate action. Using a narrative scoping review of academic literature, we access 648 abstracts and review 30 studies to identify statistically significant independent variables that were associated with GHG emissions nationally and multinationally (i.e., in country groupings) during or overlapping the period 2010–2019. We describe the findings in terms of potential reasons for the positive or negative associations, outline the strength of associations relative to other variables within the same study, and compare the associations to findings in other studies. We find that population, energy consumption, and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita are the most common independent variables associated with increases in GHG emissions, whereas the square of GDP per capita and renewable energy production are associated with GHG reductions. We assign GHG drivers to seven categories: economic, energy, demographic, technology innovation, transportation, policy, and others. We conclude by discussing implications for future research and climate policy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d5a2e95f7df647b0a47a1c9d11b21b982023-08-15T09:54:34ZengWileyClimate Resilience and Sustainability2692-45872023-08-0123n/an/a10.1002/cli2.52What drives greenhouse gas emissions? An international scoping review of academic studies in 2010–2019Jacob McCurdy0Ekaterina Rhodes1Department of Engineering University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia CanadaSchool of Public Administration and Institute of Integrated Energy Systems University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia CanadaAbstract Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have increased globally 10% in the last decade, but there is a large variation in emissions trajectories by country. Understanding the main drivers of recent changes in GHG emissions is important to guide effective climate action. Using a narrative scoping review of academic literature, we access 648 abstracts and review 30 studies to identify statistically significant independent variables that were associated with GHG emissions nationally and multinationally (i.e., in country groupings) during or overlapping the period 2010–2019. We describe the findings in terms of potential reasons for the positive or negative associations, outline the strength of associations relative to other variables within the same study, and compare the associations to findings in other studies. We find that population, energy consumption, and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita are the most common independent variables associated with increases in GHG emissions, whereas the square of GDP per capita and renewable energy production are associated with GHG reductions. We assign GHG drivers to seven categories: economic, energy, demographic, technology innovation, transportation, policy, and others. We conclude by discussing implications for future research and climate policy.https://doi.org/10.1002/cli2.52climate change mitigationdecouplingemissions driversgreenhouse gas emissionsscoping review |
| spellingShingle | Jacob McCurdy Ekaterina Rhodes What drives greenhouse gas emissions? An international scoping review of academic studies in 2010–2019 Climate Resilience and Sustainability climate change mitigation decoupling emissions drivers greenhouse gas emissions scoping review |
| title | What drives greenhouse gas emissions? An international scoping review of academic studies in 2010–2019 |
| title_full | What drives greenhouse gas emissions? An international scoping review of academic studies in 2010–2019 |
| title_fullStr | What drives greenhouse gas emissions? An international scoping review of academic studies in 2010–2019 |
| title_full_unstemmed | What drives greenhouse gas emissions? An international scoping review of academic studies in 2010–2019 |
| title_short | What drives greenhouse gas emissions? An international scoping review of academic studies in 2010–2019 |
| title_sort | what drives greenhouse gas emissions an international scoping review of academic studies in 2010 2019 |
| topic | climate change mitigation decoupling emissions drivers greenhouse gas emissions scoping review |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/cli2.52 |
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