Nothing we do matters as long as China pollutes the life out of the world. And then they come to us, begging/threatening for our technology and money to clean up.
Give me a break. I am not okay with making our energy more expensive and making our economies less efficient just while China laughs and takes advantage of us trying to make the world better.
Spain. Let’s call it North Morocco.
West in the last decades outsourced most of the industry to Asia, especially polution heavy industry.
At the same time EU and US are the major consumer of those products from global South.
Statistics like this are self-righteous circlejerk and never take the whole supply chain into account.
Estonia is missing, but it should be at -50.5%.
This is deceptive. You need to look at it very differently. Example: Germany is responsible for 2% of global emissions but has only around 1% or the global population. China had a massive population boom combined with an economic development that is tryng to achieve a similar level to western countries. What I want to say is, that even if China magically stopped all emissions we still would need to cut back ours in the west. That is why we are so reliant on international treaties like the Paris Accord to work.
Luxembourg – The highest reduction and yet still the highest per capita emissions in Europe. The best and worst news, all in one convenient package.
On the one hand, the increase in emissions is the biggest problem for current climate change.
On the other hand, China is on a similar level of per capita emission as Europeans, still far behind the US. Plus, a lot of the industrial products we use are made in China, so China is not just emitting for themselves, but also for us.
So complaining about China is not quite warranted but we need to find a way to include China in carbon cutting measures and also make sellers here responsible for CO2 emitted in other parts of the world.
Using the Covid year still does help boosting confidence on measures taken against climate change.
This is more how much China increased the production the last 30 years. China is world leader in renewables.
Is like when the pandemic started we didn’t had masks and antiseptics because we had to wait for China to produce them. Luxury brands are awesome but most people use cheap stuff all the cheap stuff are made in China.
Total amount per Capita matters here too. Why show China on this chart and not the US? China may have have had very small per Capita emissions in 1990 and 250%+ of that may still be less than the average European. A countries per Capita carbon emissions going up is not always a bad thing. It may just mean people who previously had no power now have power, clean water, schools, communications, etc. The problem is excessive carbon emissions per Capita, and that’s a much bigger problem in the US and Europe. This show Europe addressing that, great.
China 30 years ago was a poor shithole with no industry. This can’t necessarily be said about other mentioned countries.
It’s CO2 put out in that country? How would it change, when the pollution of the export good is credited to the country where the ”consumption“ is taking place?
This makes it look as if we’re a species that truly believes we can remove the CO2 problem through accounting shenanigans.
Now goes how many of them just moved manufacturing to China.
Just shows how much certain countries burnt coal in the past..
Growing economies burn more coal than the developed ones, simple as fuck
The UK is the most impressive to me.
Ironically Thatcher did more for to combat climate change than green political parties ever did, especially the green movement in Germany.
Where’s Russia?
I think it’s a bit weird that there is one Asian country amongst all European countries. Presenting statistics like that encourages a racist mentality. It’s easy to deduce racist conclusions from data that is presented in this way. Can you please consider if data is being presented in a racially balanced way before posting here? Thank you.
Wow congratulations to all of us! we managed to move the emissions from Europe to China.
Apparently Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are the ones that farts most CO2 in the air.
If all countries ship all their manufacturing to china, I’m sure their GHG emission numbers tend to look good compared to china’s, yes.
This is an awful chart, nothing good comes of statistics like these.
Guess what: manufacturing shifted to China from the countries who reduced their GHG emissions.
I think one factor of China’s increase is the sheer amount of buildings and infrastructure they’ve constructed over the years
We reduced Co2 emissions in EU and we get overpaid in electrical billsa and gas,fuel.Fuck EU.
Comparing EU with China since 1990 barely makes sense. China was very poor at that time, and its emissions were much lower per capita than that of Europe. This graph suggests ‘China bad, Europe good’; but it is a very unfair approach. Why not include US, India, Brazil?
CO₂ emissions are decreasing in Europe because harmful industries have closed. All harmful production in China. What will the whole world do without Chinese goods?
What about US?
What about India and the USA?
Nice going
Just to put these relative numbers into perspective I’d like to give some absolute CO2 emissions per capita numbers as well (2020, yes it’s during the pandemic):
– World average: 4.47 t
– EU-27: 5.84 t
– China: 7.41 t
– USA: 14.24 t
Makes sense. Europe outsourced manufacturing i.e. emissions to China.
Communists doing what they do best, killing the world
Greta? Why is mister China keep poluting? I start ti not taking you seriously.
This is a pretty harsh measure, as it really just highlights which had extremely high emissions in 1990. Just cos a country was poverty stricken in 1990 doesn’t mean they should be punished for not staying that way.
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[source](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&stackMode=relative&time=1990..2020®ion=Europe&country=OWID_WRL~GBR~CHN~DEU~FRA~ESP~POL~SWE~NLD~AUT~BEL~BGR~HRV~CYP~CZE~DNK~EST~FIN~GRC~HUN~IRL~ITA~LVA~LTU~LUX~MLT~PRT~ROU~SVK~SVN)
Nothing we do matters as long as China pollutes the life out of the world. And then they come to us, begging/threatening for our technology and money to clean up.
Give me a break. I am not okay with making our energy more expensive and making our economies less efficient just while China laughs and takes advantage of us trying to make the world better.
Spain. Let’s call it North Morocco.
West in the last decades outsourced most of the industry to Asia, especially polution heavy industry.
At the same time EU and US are the major consumer of those products from global South.
Statistics like this are self-righteous circlejerk and never take the whole supply chain into account.
Estonia is missing, but it should be at -50.5%.
This is deceptive. You need to look at it very differently. Example: Germany is responsible for 2% of global emissions but has only around 1% or the global population. China had a massive population boom combined with an economic development that is tryng to achieve a similar level to western countries. What I want to say is, that even if China magically stopped all emissions we still would need to cut back ours in the west. That is why we are so reliant on international treaties like the Paris Accord to work.
Luxembourg – The highest reduction and yet still the highest per capita emissions in Europe. The best and worst news, all in one convenient package.
Picture of some of the actual [emissions per capita](https://i.imgur.com/spiP0py.png).
[Here](https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/data-viewers/greenhouse-gases-viewer) for the latest.
There are two sides to China’s CO2 emissions:
On the one hand, the increase in emissions is the biggest problem for current climate change.
On the other hand, China is on a similar level of per capita emission as Europeans, still far behind the US. Plus, a lot of the industrial products we use are made in China, so China is not just emitting for themselves, but also for us.
So complaining about China is not quite warranted but we need to find a way to include China in carbon cutting measures and also make sellers here responsible for CO2 emitted in other parts of the world.
Using the Covid year still does help boosting confidence on measures taken against climate change.
This is more how much China increased the production the last 30 years. China is world leader in renewables.
Is like when the pandemic started we didn’t had masks and antiseptics because we had to wait for China to produce them. Luxury brands are awesome but most people use cheap stuff all the cheap stuff are made in China.
Total amount per Capita matters here too. Why show China on this chart and not the US? China may have have had very small per Capita emissions in 1990 and 250%+ of that may still be less than the average European. A countries per Capita carbon emissions going up is not always a bad thing. It may just mean people who previously had no power now have power, clean water, schools, communications, etc. The problem is excessive carbon emissions per Capita, and that’s a much bigger problem in the US and Europe. This show Europe addressing that, great.
Here’s a fancy racing bar animation on this topic – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miIbar-HteY
China 30 years ago was a poor shithole with no industry. This can’t necessarily be said about other mentioned countries.
It’s CO2 put out in that country? How would it change, when the pollution of the export good is credited to the country where the ”consumption“ is taking place?
So global emissions changed by 4.57%, from 22.75 to 34.81 billion ton. ([https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions/))
This makes it look as if we’re a species that truly believes we can remove the CO2 problem through accounting shenanigans.
Now goes how many of them just moved manufacturing to China.
Just shows how much certain countries burnt coal in the past..
Growing economies burn more coal than the developed ones, simple as fuck
The UK is the most impressive to me.
Ironically Thatcher did more for to combat climate change than green political parties ever did, especially the green movement in Germany.
Where’s Russia?
I think it’s a bit weird that there is one Asian country amongst all European countries. Presenting statistics like that encourages a racist mentality. It’s easy to deduce racist conclusions from data that is presented in this way. Can you please consider if data is being presented in a racially balanced way before posting here? Thank you.
Wow congratulations to all of us! we managed to move the emissions from Europe to China.
**The problem is China.**
Where are the US?
How about we do this per capita?
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/
Apparently Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are the ones that farts most CO2 in the air.
If all countries ship all their manufacturing to china, I’m sure their GHG emission numbers tend to look good compared to china’s, yes.
This is an awful chart, nothing good comes of statistics like these.
Guess what: manufacturing shifted to China from the countries who reduced their GHG emissions.
I think one factor of China’s increase is the sheer amount of buildings and infrastructure they’ve constructed over the years
We reduced Co2 emissions in EU and we get overpaid in electrical billsa and gas,fuel.Fuck EU.
Comparing EU with China since 1990 barely makes sense. China was very poor at that time, and its emissions were much lower per capita than that of Europe. This graph suggests ‘China bad, Europe good’; but it is a very unfair approach. Why not include US, India, Brazil?
CO₂ emissions are decreasing in Europe because harmful industries have closed. All harmful production in China. What will the whole world do without Chinese goods?
What about US?
What about India and the USA?
Nice going
Just to put these relative numbers into perspective I’d like to give some absolute CO2 emissions per capita numbers as well (2020, yes it’s during the pandemic):
– World average: 4.47 t
– EU-27: 5.84 t
– China: 7.41 t
– USA: 14.24 t
[source](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=table)
Makes sense. Europe outsourced manufacturing i.e. emissions to China.
Communists doing what they do best, killing the world
Greta? Why is mister China keep poluting? I start ti not taking you seriously.
This is a pretty harsh measure, as it really just highlights which had extremely high emissions in 1990. Just cos a country was poverty stricken in 1990 doesn’t mean they should be punished for not staying that way.