Methods

British Columbia's total greenhouse gas emissions are estimated using the British Columbia Greenhouse Gas Provincial Inventory Methodology (PDF), using data from provincial-level sources and Canada's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report. See the British Columbia Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory (2017) for details. Greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 O), sulphur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and nitrogen triflouride (NF 3 ) released by human activity—these emissions are reported collectively here as millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO 2 e). British Columbia population estimates (Table: 17-10-0005-01) and gross domestic product (Table: 36-10-0222-01) data were sourced from Statistics Canada. Gross domestic product (GDP) is calculated using expenditure-based GDP and reported in millions of chained 2012 dollars.

The R code for repeating the analysis and data visualizations presented on this page is available on GitHub.