Sources of greenhouse effects in Asia

The shown data are related to the beginning of the 1990s and during the last decade emissions were arising, in spite of eeonomie erisis in 1997-1999. Moreover, the projected emissions of earbon dioxide in the 11 Asian eountries are still very dramatic (Table 1). 

The data show that the predicted emissions will exeeed the 1995 levels in various countries from 2.7 (China) to 7.6 (Indonesia) times, being in total for the estimated Asian countries as much as 3.5 times. 

In addition to energy use, changes in land use are a major source of carbon dioxide emissions. In some countries the forest might actually be a net sink for carbon dioxide, 

The concentration of atmospheric methane is increasing, probably as a result of increasing cattle population, rice production, and biomass burning. Increasing methane concentrations are important because of the role it plays in stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry. Methane is also important to the radiation budget of our planet. 

Agriculture and livestock are the largest sources of anthropogenic methane in most Asian countries. Coal mines, the production of oil and gas and transmission of natural gas are also large contributors to methane emissions in some countries. The aggregate emissions of methane from each country are shown in Table 3, which also provides the data on nitrous oxide emissions. 

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