Your hard date on CO2 emissions will come from gapminder.com. General information on your country and its economy can come from the databases. If you cannot find the most information you need from these sources, you need to work more slowly or pick another country. Researchers and scientists do not use Google to get statistics, so neither should you.
Gapminder Tools (data up until 2017)
Climate Trace (data up from 2015)
The Observatory of Economic Complexity
Provides the imports and exports and gives the percentage of GDP that comes from them.
United Kingdom: 1760-1820 (Industrial Revolution begins)
World War One: 1914-1918
Great Depression: 1929-1939 (long and severe global economic slowdown)
World War Two: 1939-1945
China: 1958 - early 1960 (Great Leap Forward: campaign by Chinese communists to organize large-scale rural communes, to meet China’s industrial and agricultural problems. )
Arab Oil Embargo: 1973 (major oil-producing countries stopped making shipments)
Iran Oil Crisis: 1979 (drop in exports from Iran due to the Iranian Revolution)
Global recession: 1980-1982 (global economic slowdown)
Global recession: 2008 (global economic slowdown)
Global Pandemic: 2021
New York Times - In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived
Government of Canada - Small Modular Reactors
Rolls Royce - Small Modular Reactors
Princeton University: Cement and Concrete - The Environmental Impact
International Energy Association - Steel
CBC - What is green hydrogen, and how green is it, anyway?
Carbon capture: What you need to know about catching CO2 to fight climate change