Greenland - Carbon dioxide damage

Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (current US$)

The latest value for Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (current US$) in Greenland was 4,434,908 as of 2010. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 4,537,183 in 2007 and 522,354 in 1976.

Definition: Carbon dioxide damage is estimated to be $20 per ton of carbon (the unit damage in 1995 U.S. dollars) times the number of tons of carbon emitted.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on Samuel Fankhauser's ""Valuing Climate Change: The Economics of the Greenhouse"" (1995).

See also:

Year Value
1970 620,388
1971 801,737
1972 986,583
1973 1,048,227
1974 1,143,385
1975 1,136,214
1976 522,354
1977 1,824,378
1978 1,060,438
1979 1,674,680
1980 1,803,945
1981 1,844,850
1982 1,916,651
1983 1,398,944
1984 2,272,511
1985 2,099,647
1986 1,374,093
1987 1,016,796
1988 2,448,518
1989 2,199,921
1990 2,692,197
1991 2,750,937
1992 2,478,237
1993 2,628,940
1994 2,703,919
1995 2,760,251
1996 2,873,939
1997 2,966,166
1998 3,041,656
1999 3,150,224
2000 3,153,204
2001 3,268,927
2002 3,321,865
2003 3,370,254
2004 3,228,492
2005 4,219,379
2006 4,002,181
2007 4,537,183
2008 4,183,363
2009 4,372,384
2010 4,434,908

Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI)

Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) in Greenland was 0.38 as of 2009. Its highest value over the past 39 years was 1.03 in 1972, while its lowest value was 0.14 in 1987.

Definition: Carbon dioxide damage is estimated to be $20 per ton of carbon (the unit damage in 1995 U.S. dollars) times the number of tons of carbon emitted.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on Samuel Fankhauser's ""Valuing Climate Change: The Economics of the Greenhouse"" (1995).

See also:

Year Value
1970 0.99
1971 1.00
1972 1.03
1973 0.83
1974 0.75
1975 0.60
1976 0.24
1977 0.72
1978 0.33
1979 0.44
1980 0.42
1981 0.47
1982 0.51
1983 0.37
1984 0.65
1985 0.55
1986 0.25
1987 0.14
1988 0.29
1989 0.25
1990 0.28
1991 0.29
1992 0.26
1993 0.30
1994 0.28
1995 0.24
1996 0.25
1997 0.28
1998 0.27
1999 0.29
2000 0.30
2001 0.31
2002 0.29
2003 0.24
2004 0.20
2005 0.25
2006 0.24
2007 0.22
2008 0.28
2009 0.38

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts