Especially the US, Canada and Australia, the countries with lots of car-centric urban sprawl. Hmm.
It’s surprising to see Italy rank that close to France considering that we don’t have nuclear energy…
This does not seem like it’s the actual top 15 though, how are these countries selected? There are a lot of countries seemingly omitted from this list. Netherlands for example is around 10 tons per capita but not on the list. Is it only countries above a certain population?
I can unfortunately not open the bloomberg source link since it’s paywalled for me.
* Australia is higher than the US.
* China is higher than the EU, but not Europe without EU (thanks Russia).
* Qatar is the worst county, and their neighbors are closely behind.
Poland can into wealthy club yay
That is so misleading
Source is not world Bank. As pointed out in other comments this data and the whole conclusion is fake. EU is below China.
This data is very out of date now
I’m sorry to tell you this but climate change doesn’t give a fuck about “Per Capita” emissions. It’s absolutely fair to point out that the developed countries have a bigger individual slice of the CO2 pie and they emitted loads when they were developing but it just doesn’t matter in reality. Even if the developed world cut its per capita emission down to developing levels there still wouldn’t be enough space or time to allow the same type and amount of growth.
The only real way to fix this problem is for the west to reduce its emissions and rest to halt their growth of emissions.
It’s not fair it’s just necessity.
How are export products accounted for? For example if a French person buys a BMW made in Germany, the co2 emited to produce that care is accounted for France or Germany?
This is based off of carbon per person. This is why China is at the bottom and not top despite having approximately twice as many total emissions than the US. Total emissions per country is a little different. Still bad but a little misleading.
This is outdated. More recent data of any countries here:
This is why simply pointing fingers at China is insufficient, there’s plenty to criticize China even in the realm of climate change, but per capita they’re emitting less than most European countries. Because they have so many people and they recently industrialized to catch up to the quality of life we enjoy here they’re responsible for so much emissions in total but for each Chinese person they’re frequently doing better than a lot of European countries, not all but several. And the US… it’s like they’re not even trying
Most surprising to me is Malaysia.
Anyone knows why?
Too bad the smaller countries are missing, Luxemburg and the Netherlands (and Qatar etc.) also score very high.
China being so much larger is already too often used as an argument here to do nothing, a list like this only fuels that kind of thinking.
On literally every documentaries I watch on this subject they paint China as the great polluter of the world, while this is true to some extent, for many reasons it could make my post an essay at this point, they swiftly don’t mention pollution per Capita. This is god damn crucial, yet they don’t do it.
I find it very dishonest to compare a +billion of person nation like India or China with smaller nations like Portugal or Iceland.
It’s not even funny at this point, it’s sad.
I’m still happy France is at the bottom, as expected, now I hope the EU will follow it as a whole. We need it together for the greater good.
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Source:
(1) https://www.statista.com/chart/24306/carbon-emissions-per-capita-by-country/
(2) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-28/china-s-five-year-plan-will-determine-the-future-of-decarbonization?srnd=green&sref=fDPa8NQZ
Especially the US, Canada and Australia, the countries with lots of car-centric urban sprawl. Hmm.
It’s surprising to see Italy rank that close to France considering that we don’t have nuclear energy…
This does not seem like it’s the actual top 15 though, how are these countries selected? There are a lot of countries seemingly omitted from this list. Netherlands for example is around 10 tons per capita but not on the list. Is it only countries above a certain population?
I can unfortunately not open the bloomberg source link since it’s paywalled for me.
Wealthy nations and Russia.
This data is outdated. Here’s a list from the previous year: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=table
Some tidbits:
* Australia is higher than the US.
* China is higher than the EU, but not Europe without EU (thanks Russia).
* Qatar is the worst county, and their neighbors are closely behind.
Poland can into wealthy club yay
That is so misleading
Source is not world Bank. As pointed out in other comments this data and the whole conclusion is fake. EU is below China.
This data is very out of date now
I’m sorry to tell you this but climate change doesn’t give a fuck about “Per Capita” emissions. It’s absolutely fair to point out that the developed countries have a bigger individual slice of the CO2 pie and they emitted loads when they were developing but it just doesn’t matter in reality. Even if the developed world cut its per capita emission down to developing levels there still wouldn’t be enough space or time to allow the same type and amount of growth.
The only real way to fix this problem is for the west to reduce its emissions and rest to halt their growth of emissions.
It’s not fair it’s just necessity.
How are export products accounted for? For example if a French person buys a BMW made in Germany, the co2 emited to produce that care is accounted for France or Germany?
This is based off of carbon per person. This is why China is at the bottom and not top despite having approximately twice as many total emissions than the US. Total emissions per country is a little different. Still bad but a little misleading.
This is outdated. More recent data of any countries here:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart
This is why simply pointing fingers at China is insufficient, there’s plenty to criticize China even in the realm of climate change, but per capita they’re emitting less than most European countries. Because they have so many people and they recently industrialized to catch up to the quality of life we enjoy here they’re responsible for so much emissions in total but for each Chinese person they’re frequently doing better than a lot of European countries, not all but several. And the US… it’s like they’re not even trying
Most surprising to me is Malaysia.
Anyone knows why?
Too bad the smaller countries are missing, Luxemburg and the Netherlands (and Qatar etc.) also score very high.
China being so much larger is already too often used as an argument here to do nothing, a list like this only fuels that kind of thinking.
The World Bank gives the UK’s per capita emissions at [5.4](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC) not 8.1?
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On literally every documentaries I watch on this subject they paint China as the great polluter of the world, while this is true to some extent, for many reasons it could make my post an essay at this point, they swiftly don’t mention pollution per Capita. This is god damn crucial, yet they don’t do it.
I find it very dishonest to compare a +billion of person nation like India or China with smaller nations like Portugal or Iceland.
It’s not even funny at this point, it’s sad.
I’m still happy France is at the bottom, as expected, now I hope the EU will follow it as a whole. We need it together for the greater good.