CO₂ Emissions by Fuel Type (Line Chart)

• This interactive graph and chart provide students with the opportunity to explore CO₂ emissions by fuel type for any country or continent beginning in 1750.
• Students can view the data on emissions from oil, coal, flaring, gas, cement, and others.

Positives

• This resource provides a large amount of information that can be customized and downloaded.
• The charts are easy to read and the data table can be sorted. 

• The information is playable in a time-lapse line chart, which gives a good indication of the speed of emissions from the Industrial Revolution. 
• This resource can also be viewed as a stacked area chart.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should know how to read a data table and line graph.
• Teachers may need to explain that flaring is burning off a byproduct of gas and oil when extracting oil. 

Differentiation

• There could be many uses for this resource in a variety of courses, including cross-curricular connections for math, social studies, and economics.
• As a starter activity for a lesson on climate change, students could pick a country, look at the data, and present how their countries' CO₂ emissions have changed over three time points (earliest recorded, 2000, last recorded). Students could also work collaboratively on this. 
• Alternatively, students could pick a country, look at the data, and present how their countries' CO₂emissions by fuel type have changed over time. 

This resource provides students with the opportunity to explore CO₂ emissions by fuel type in any country or continent. Data on fuel types (oil, coal, flaring, gas, cement, and others) can be shown in a table or line chart, growth in emission datasets beginning from 1750-2019 is valid. This resource can also be viewed as a stacked area chart and it is recommended for teaching.