{"id":548,"date":"2023-10-18T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/finance\/?p=548"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:02:02","slug":"time-series-analysis-of-trends-in-global-carbon-emissions-from-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/finance\/2023\/10\/18\/time-series-analysis-of-trends-in-global-carbon-emissions-from-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Series Analysis of Trends in Global Carbon Emissions from Fossil Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The following post is from Hang Qian, Software Developer on the Econometrics Toolbox Team.<\/em><\/div>\n
Global carbon emissions have increased dramatically since 1901. However, the annual growth rates were time-varying in the past century and slowed down in recent years, possibly due to international efforts on climate change under the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement, and exogenous shocks by the pandemic.<\/div>\n
This demo analyzes time-varying local trends of carbon emissions from fossil fuels and builds a multivariate dynamic factor model for carbon emissions from coal, gas, and oil.<\/div>\n

Retrieve Data from Haver Analytics\u00ae<\/h2>\n
The Datafeed Toolbox™<\/a> enables you to connect to Haver Analytics<\/a> databases to retrieve their economic data for analysis in MATLAB\u00ae<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Connect to the Haver Analytics Environmental, Social, and Governance Indicators (ESG) database by specifying its database name file located on your local machine, for example, C:\\DLX\\DATA\\ESG.dat<\/span>.<\/div>\n
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h = haver(“C:\\DLX\\DATA\\ESG.dat”<\/span>);<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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h.DataReturnFormat = “timetable”<\/span>;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The ESG database contains yearly measurements of carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels from 1901, among other series.<\/div>\n