Emissions per GDP in Latin

Metric tons of CO2 equivalent per million US dollars1

0 500 1 000 1 500 2 000 2 500 2,3 Guyana Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Trinidad and Tobago 3 Paraguay

Uruguay

2,3 Suriname 3 Cuba

3 Nicaragua Venezuela (Bolivarian Rep. of)

Argentina 3Haiti

3 Jamaica

3 Honduras Brazil

2,3 Belize Colombia

3 Guatemala Ecuador Mexico

3 Dominican Republic Chile Peru

2,3 Bahamas 2,3 Grenada 3 Panama

2,3 Antigua and Barbuda 3 El Salvador

2,3 Saint Vincent and Grenadines 2,3 Dominica 2,3 Saint Lucia

2,3 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2,3 Barbados 3 Costa Rica

Latin America and the Caribbean

Notes: 1.Constant 2005, purchasing power parity; 2. PFC, HFC and SF6 data not available; 3. Int’l Bunkers data not available.

Source: ECLAC on the basis of Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) Version 7.0. (Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, 2010).

Figure 3.10a 28 Note: 1. Constant 2005, purchasing power parity.

Source: ECLAC on the basis of Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) Version 7.0. (Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, 2010).

Figure 3.10b The trajectories for CO2 emissions and

energy consumption in Latin America and the Caribbean in 1980-2005 show that there is a positive relation between these two variables, though it varies from one country to another. During the period in question, both energy consumption and CO2

emissions (excluding

those associated with land use changes) grew in the region at an average annual rate that was higher than the world average. Likewise, for the same period, emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean grew at a rate somewhat lower than the increase in energy consumption, suggesting that there has been a slight process of decarbonization in the region.

Comparing the emissions:energy ratio (carbon intensity) between regions, one finds different patterns over time. Thus, between 1980 and 1995, decarbonization in LAC was in line with the world average; in the first half of the 1980s, the region progressed, in this respect, even faster than did the OECD countries. However, between 1995 and 2003, the emissions-to- energy consumption ratio increased (figure 3.12). The ratio of emissions to GDP in the

OECD (High income) China

Latin America and the Caribbean

America and the Caribbean, 2005 (Excludes land use change)

Emissions per GDP, 2005 (Excludes land use change)

0

Metric tons of CO2 equivalent per million US dollars1 200

400 600 800 1 000 1 200 World