Open AccessDesacoplamento entre as Emissões de CO2 e o PIB
Author(s) -
Yves Rocha de Salles Lima,
Tatiane Stellet Machado,
João José de Assis Rangel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
revista produção e desenvolvimento
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-9580
DOI - 10.32358/rpd.2016.v2.174
Subject(s) - per capita , economics , work (physics) , real gross domestic product , economy , welfare economics , macroeconomics , demography , population , engineering , mechanical engineering , sociology
The objetive of this work is to analyze the variation of CO2 emissions and GDP per capita throughout the years and identify the possible interaction between them. For this purpose, data from the International Energy Agency was collected on two countries, Brazil and the one with the highest GDP worldwide, the United States. Thus, the results showed that CO2 emissions have been following the country’s economic growth for many years. However, these two indicators have started to decouple in the US in 2007 while in Brazil the same happened in 2011. Furthermore, projections for CO2 emissions are made until 2040, considering 6 probable scenarios. These projections showed that even if the oil price decreases, the emissions will not be significantly affected as long as the economic growth does not decelerate.