I was wondering the other day whose CO2 is it? I did some google search and of course wikipedia knew it. I am just amazed how much data is out there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
The top 10 countries are:
China, US, EU, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, Internation Shipping, Iran and South Korea.
Some quick observations:
1. China and US combined emit 44% of CO2. Now, that's quite an imbalance given that these two countries have 25% of global population. However, they contribute 40% to world economy. so, it appears there is a correlation to the contribution to world economy and contribution to CO2 emission.
2. Per capita emission for US is 16.1 ton which one would think will be the highest in the world but the middle eastern countries are beating that...Saudi Arabia is 16, UAE is 21.8, Kuwait is 24.4, Qatar is 39.7 and Oman is 17.5
3. 18% of greenhouse gases comes from cattles (there are 1.5B of them)
http://graphs.net/air-pollution-infographics.html
4. Look at the trend of how per capita emissions have changed over the years by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
Singapore has done very well for a developed nation.
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