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Greenhouse Gas Emission Drivers: Population, Economic Development and Growth, and Energy Use

CRS Report: Greenhouse Gas Emission Drivers: Population, Economic Development and Growth, and Energy Use, April 24, 2007. (36 pages, PDF)

  • “In the context of climate change and possible responses to the risk associated with it, three variables strongly influence the levels and growth of greenhouse gas emissions: population, income (measured as per capita gross domestic product [GDP]), and intensity of emissions (measured as tons of greenhouse gas emissions per million dollars of GDP).”
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