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Where do the CARMA plant numbers come from?

Posted on June 05, 2008

CARMA's operating philosophy is to maximize possible transparency, so it's only fair to shed some light onto how we calculated plant data. For the full CGD working paper, please read Calculating CARMA, Global Estimation of CO2 Emissions from the Power Sector by David Wheeler and Kevin Ummel.CGD decided to focus on the power sector because it accounts for the most CO2 emissions (26%), and because it's better-documented any other CO2-emitting sector. With that being said, it was no cakewalk to process emissions data from numerous sources, and we recognize that our findings are still far from per...

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co2 , electric , emissions