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Analyzing Industry Carbon Emissions
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    Greenhouse gas emissions attributable to products—from food to sneakers to appliances—make up more than 75% of global emissions. -The Carbon Catalogue

    Our data, which is publicly availably on nature.com, contains product carbon footprints (PCFs) for various companies. PCFs are the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to a given product, measured in CO2 (carbon dioxide equivalent).

    This data is stored in a PostgreSQL database containing one table, prouduct_emissions, which looks at PCFs by product as well as the stage of production these emissions occured in. Here's a snapshot of what product_emissions contains in each column:

    product_emissions

    fielddata_type
    idVARCHAR
    yearINT
    product_nameVARCHAR
    companyVARCHAR
    countryVARCHAR
    industry_groupVARCHAR
    weight_kgNUMERIC
    carbon_footprint_pcfNUMERIC
    upstream_percent_total_pcfVARCHAR
    operations_percent_total_pcfVARCHAR
    downstream_percent_total_pcfVARCHAR

    You'll use this data to examine the carbon footprint of each industry in the dataset!

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    SELECT industry_group, COUNT(*) AS count_industry, ROUND(SUM(carbon_footprint_pcf), 1) AS total_industry_footprint
    FROM product_emissions
    GROUP BY industry_group, year
    HAVING year = 2017
    ORDER BY total_industry_footprint DESC;

    The most recent year data was collected was 2017. The Materials industry_group has 11 companies and emits the highest amount of carbon emissions. The Capital Goods industry_group, despite only having four companies, emits the second most highest amount of carbon emissions in this dataset.