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Cartogram over greenhouse gas emissions, UNECE members and other countries/regions

Cartogram over greenhouse gas emissions, UNECE members and other countries/regionsClick on the image above for high resolution view
The member states of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) are some of the main emitters of greenhouse gases, with the EU, USA and Canada among others. The report Catalysing change - the UNECE response to the climate countdown, prepared for the COP15 climate conference in December 2009 summaries the activities among the UNECE members to mitigate and act on climate change. The UNECE counts 56 countries as members in Europe, North America, Central Asia, Caucasus and the Middle East.

Illustration for the report Catalysing change - the UNECE response to the climate countdown.

Cartogram (or anamorphic map) with the size and area of every country/region scaled to reflect the carbon dioxide emissions in 2007. The top part of the illustration shows the UNECE member states, while the lower part presents other countries and regions for comparison. The map data was edited in places by moving certain countries and loosening the topology, to avoid overexaggerated distortion.

ESRI ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator were used to prepare the map, together with the Cartogram Geoprocessing tool.

The data source for the emissions data is the CDIAC carbon dioxide emissions database.

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