I added another data source instead of trying to manually match country names between the CAIT database and the WB database. This PIK database also contains GHG data from 1850-now instead of just CO2 data.
Gütschow, Johannes; Jeffery, Louise; Gieseke, Robert; Gebel, Ronja (2018): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1850-2015). V. 1.2. GFZ Data Services. http://doi.org/10.5880/PIK.2018.003
Nabel, J. E. M. S., Rogelj, J., Chen, C. M., Markmann, K., Gutzmann, D. J. H., & Meinshausen, M. (2011). Decision support for international climate policy – The PRIMAP emission module. Environmental Modelling & Software, 26(12), 1419–1433. http://doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.08.004
I added another data source instead of trying to manually match country names between the CAIT database and the WB database. This PIK database also contains GHG data from 1850-now instead of just CO2 data.
This sort of subverts #7.