Monthly estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil‐fuel consumption in Brazil during the late 1990s and early 2000s

Detailed understanding of global carbon cycling requires estimates of CO 2 emissions on temporal and spatial scales finer than annual and country. This is the first attempt to derive such estimates for a large, developing, Southern Hemisphere country. Though data on energy use are not complete in terms of time and geography, there are enough data available on the sale or consumption of fuels in Brazil to reasonably approximate the temporal and spatial patterns of fuel use and CO 2 emissions. Given the available data, a strong annual cycle in emissions from Brazil is not apparent. CO 2 emissions are unevenly distributed within Brazil as the population density and level of development both vary widely.