The graph below shows average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per person in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Portugal between 1967 and 2007.

The graph below shows average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per person in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Portugal between 1967 and 2007.
The line graph gives information
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Carbon
Dioxide
emissions
per capita in four different European countries over a
period
of 40 years, from 1967 to 2007.
It is clear that
carbon
emissions
in the
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UK
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and Sweden decreased for most of the
period
shown.
However
,
while
Italy's and Portugal's CO2
emissions
per resident rose steadily,
UK
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the UK
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had the highest amount of
carbon
dioxide
releases
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. For the first decades, the
figure
for
UK's
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Carbon
dioxide output stood at almost 11 metric tonnes.
However
, over the following three decades, there was a slight fall and the
figure
had reached 9 by 2007.
In contrast
, the CO2
emissions
in Sweden rose sharply for the first decades, which
followed
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by a sudden decline with the rate reaching a low of 5, 5 in 2007.
Conversely
, both Italy and Portugal saw similar moderate roses over the
period
. at the start of the
period
with 4 metric tonnes the
carbon
emissions
per head in Sweden grew over 6 m.t in 1977 , and
this
number gradually increased over the
period
to finish at approximately 8 metric tonnes in 2007. The
figure
for Portugal was the lowest of the four countries. In the year 1967, the
figure
started at 1 m.t, after which it rose dramatically by 2007 and
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reached 5. 5 m.t, matching Sweden’s average.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • carbon dioxide emissions
  • per person
  • United Kingdom
  • Sweden
  • Italy
  • Portugal
  • graph
  • compare
  • average
  • increase
  • decrease
  • trend
  • peak
  • decline
  • years
  • period
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