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How to convert inventory sector quantities into economic sector quantities?

I see the EPA has pie charts for the standard IPCC sectors and for economic sectors. I want to do a pie chart for economic sectors for another country where I know the figures for IPCC sector. Any idea how I can convert from IPCC sector to economic sector? I could not figure it out from the EPA website. How does the EPA calculate the figures for economic sectors do you know? Or should I ask them directly? Chidgk1 (talk) 07:01, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

JetGreen40 - you seem to know a lot about the USA - do you know whether this "economic sector" measurement is some USA specific thing or if not how can I calculate it for another country where I have the IPCC figures? There is info at https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector but that only goes up to 2016 and I have not yet found out how they calculated it. For example how do the EPA work out that "commercial" is 6.9% of the total? Chidgk1 (talk) 11:06, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not entirely sure whether it is a USA-specific thing, but this EPA report on the GHG emissions inventory provides some useful information. Specifically, see Box 2-1 on page 2-32 for their methodology. JetGreen40 (talk) 22:46, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - by the way you can remove the "update" tag when you think a section is up to date. Chidgk1 (talk) 14:48, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mitigation

I've added new sources and information in the "Mitigation" section. I'm happy to go ahead and remove the update tag unless anyone else would like to add further updates. JetGreen40 (talk) 22:12, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chidgk1 - Do you think this section is current enough to remove the tag? Thanks, JetGreen40 (talk) 00:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No objections - you know best. Someone can always add a new tag if the BBB is passed Chidgk1 (talk) 07:34, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Carbon tariff on exports?

So as the social cost of carbon does not cover damages to other countries https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/12/trump-judge-biden-climate-metric-greenhouse-gases presumably other countries would be within WTO rules to impose a carbon tariff on US exports? Chidgk1 (talk) 12:26, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Details of calculation of social cost of carbon?

Maybe one of you Americans could add details of how it is calculated? Chidgk1 (talk) 12:41, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to move the mitigation content

I am proposing to move all the mitigation content to climate change in the United States to make it more consistent with the structure we are using for the other climate change in country X articles. Also the climate change in the United States does have a section about mitigation already, so now we have mitigation content spread over two articles. See also here for the proposed standard structure of the articles in the group "climate change in country X". Pinging User:Chidgk1. I've also just proposed the same at the China GHGE article. EMsmile (talk) 18:43, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Another reason for my proposal is that mitigation is about more than just GHGE reductions. It's also about enhancing carbon sinks. Hence, it fits better in the climate change articles rather than in the GHGE emission articles. EMsmile (talk) 18:43, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Replied at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Climate_change/Style_guide#Where_to_put_mitigation_if_there_is_a_%E2%80%9CGHG_emissions_by_X%E2%80%9D_article?

Pie chart numbers?

Transportation 28.4 (28.4%)

What is number before brackets - mistake? Chidgk1 (talk) 16:59, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The original poster entered percentages, and Template:Pie chart added the percentage values in parentheses. I couldn't figure out a way in Template:Pie chart to remove the redundancy. That's one of the reasons why I favor uploaded SVG images rather than local templates, which are very inflexible. Maybe someone reading this can remove the redundancy. —RCraig09 (talk) 18:11, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've just learned from a helpful editor at Template talk:Pie chart that the problem is caused by the fact that the numbers total 100.1 and not 100 exactly. I plan to search for more recent data than 2022, and then possibly make an SVG chart to avoid this type of confusion. —RCraig09 (talk) 22:16, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't find readily available data for 2023+. Will consider options. —RCraig09 (talk) 23:23, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey I used the line graph from Our World in Data. Advantage - shows time. Disadvantage - v difficult to translate I guess. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:20250319 US greenhouse gas emissions by sector.svg has just been uploaded. 19:19, 19 March 2025 (UTC)