per person is pretty weak statistics in this case. As e.g. Ireland and China are similar but much different. China has a lot of poor ppl who do not even contribute that much to the whole emission. Most emission is from factories, energy production, refineries and rich ppl. So % is going much lower with poor ppl “tanking” this stat. In Ireland there are no such poor villages/regions compared in China. Region is much more consistent. You can also look at air pollution in China cities or villages, near factories. Two different worlds.
Also EU is 7-8% of global co2 emission in 2021 – population ~450milion
USA is 14% of global co2 emission – population ~350milion
China is 30% of global co2 emission – population ~1 400milion
Also as i said. There is a lot more pollution from consumption in EU/USA than in China.
This is not EU that should mainly reduce co2, and other greenhouse effect gases. We as EU should force other main forces like USA/China/India/and mainly Africa to be ecologic.
Similar to oceans. EU is only responsible for 0.8% of waste in oceans. Whole Asia for 81% of waste in oceans…
[https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics](https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics)
This is terrible and we should focus on the largest emitters of waste/greenhouse gases. Earth will not thanks us for reducing co2 from 8% to 6%, but if we can e.g. reduce USA emission to the emission similar to EU it would be much better and healthier for earth.
Lets show a chart with a total emission of each country over last 200 years.
The climate change is a present thing. Countries which benefited from a cheap fossil fuels should contribute to those who didn’t. Recent emissions are missleading…
Btw. Do we account goods produced in China for instance and later imported to Germany as chineese emission or a german one?
Sweden is doing insanely good
Notice the 50% extra emission in Germany compared to France?
Is the reason Ireland is so high peat? They aren’t exactly known for heavy industry.
As a Swede, I doubt we’re only beaten by Malta.
The good news I can see from this graph is that EU average will soon be below world average.
Do the numbers for Monaco include fuel for private megayachts?
What happened in Tonga (+42) and the Marshall Islands(+39), is this caused by tourism? How did Timor Leste achieve -49%?
This chart hurts my head that is a bit tipsy after three beers
What the fuck is happening in Trinidad and Tobago?
Mind you, this is per Person: EU -15%, US -10%, China +12%. I mean, Qatar has fewer people than many cities in the world. At least World wide -2%….
Paper straws will save us though
Gulf countries topping the list is completely unsurprising.
What is surprising is Poland being only 4th among the EU countries on this ranking.
The amount of poor countries where it’s going down is surprising
Not proud that EU average is above world average. We can do better!
I’d say that sweden is doing a pretty damn good job there!
Heja sverige!!
thank the billionaires
Iceland is a surprise. I’ve heard they have free hot water and steam literally coming out of the ground on its own?
1% of Luxembourg’s economy is gas stations selling cheap to foreigners completely inflating our numbers to an unreasonable degree. The fact that the US is still doing much much worse is insane to me.
Big L for you Brunei
Crazy that China has per capita emissions higher than most European countries, with the population they have…
Bosnia finally the best in the world! + is good, right? Right??
Honestly I was really pleasantly surprised to see both how low the UK is in this chart and how much it’s dropped since 2012. Legitimately makes me hopeful that the country is getting better at this
Can someone explain to me what happened in Bosnia (+50%) and probably also Serbia (+30%) in the past 10+ years? Just economic growth?
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Source: [https://zenodo.org/records/10705513](https://zenodo.org/records/10705513)
[https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL)
Note: Does not include land use, land use change etc.
High res: [https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53776652697_6e30f4c441_o.png](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53776652697_6e30f4c441_o.png)
Only CO2, different source: [https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53777992330_c2551087a2_o.png](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53777992330_c2551087a2_o.png)
Consumption based CO2 emissions: [https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53776652687_d21863f5c2_o.png](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53776652687_d21863f5c2_o.png)
Data for last two: [https://globalcarbonbudgetdata.org/latest-data.html](https://globalcarbonbudgetdata.org/latest-data.html)
[https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL)
How come Australia emits more than the US?
per person is pretty weak statistics in this case. As e.g. Ireland and China are similar but much different. China has a lot of poor ppl who do not even contribute that much to the whole emission. Most emission is from factories, energy production, refineries and rich ppl. So % is going much lower with poor ppl “tanking” this stat. In Ireland there are no such poor villages/regions compared in China. Region is much more consistent. You can also look at air pollution in China cities or villages, near factories. Two different worlds.
Also EU is 7-8% of global co2 emission in 2021 – population ~450milion
USA is 14% of global co2 emission – population ~350milion
China is 30% of global co2 emission – population ~1 400milion
Also as i said. There is a lot more pollution from consumption in EU/USA than in China.
This is not EU that should mainly reduce co2, and other greenhouse effect gases. We as EU should force other main forces like USA/China/India/and mainly Africa to be ecologic.
Similar to oceans. EU is only responsible for 0.8% of waste in oceans. Whole Asia for 81% of waste in oceans…
[https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics](https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics)
This is terrible and we should focus on the largest emitters of waste/greenhouse gases. Earth will not thanks us for reducing co2 from 8% to 6%, but if we can e.g. reduce USA emission to the emission similar to EU it would be much better and healthier for earth.
Lets show a chart with a total emission of each country over last 200 years.
The climate change is a present thing. Countries which benefited from a cheap fossil fuels should contribute to those who didn’t. Recent emissions are missleading…
Btw. Do we account goods produced in China for instance and later imported to Germany as chineese emission or a german one?
Sweden is doing insanely good
Notice the 50% extra emission in Germany compared to France?
Is the reason Ireland is so high peat? They aren’t exactly known for heavy industry.
As a Swede, I doubt we’re only beaten by Malta.
The good news I can see from this graph is that EU average will soon be below world average.
Do the numbers for Monaco include fuel for private megayachts?
What happened in Tonga (+42) and the Marshall Islands(+39), is this caused by tourism? How did Timor Leste achieve -49%?
This chart hurts my head that is a bit tipsy after three beers
What the fuck is happening in Trinidad and Tobago?
Mind you, this is per Person: EU -15%, US -10%, China +12%. I mean, Qatar has fewer people than many cities in the world. At least World wide -2%….
Paper straws will save us though
Gulf countries topping the list is completely unsurprising.
What is surprising is Poland being only 4th among the EU countries on this ranking.
The amount of poor countries where it’s going down is surprising
Not proud that EU average is above world average. We can do better!
I’d say that sweden is doing a pretty damn good job there!
Heja sverige!!
thank the billionaires
Iceland is a surprise. I’ve heard they have free hot water and steam literally coming out of the ground on its own?
1% of Luxembourg’s economy is gas stations selling cheap to foreigners completely inflating our numbers to an unreasonable degree. The fact that the US is still doing much much worse is insane to me.
Big L for you Brunei
Crazy that China has per capita emissions higher than most European countries, with the population they have…
Bosnia finally the best in the world! + is good, right? Right??
Honestly I was really pleasantly surprised to see both how low the UK is in this chart and how much it’s dropped since 2012. Legitimately makes me hopeful that the country is getting better at this
Can someone explain to me what happened in Bosnia (+50%) and probably also Serbia (+30%) in the past 10+ years? Just economic growth?