World’s top polluters (To go with Stronger India goes to climate summit)
December 6th, 2009 - 4:46 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Copenhagen, Dec 6 (IANS) The world’s top 15 polluters, ranked by their absolute and per-capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the International Energy Agency:
Absolute emissions (carbon dioxide equivalent — million tonnes per year, 2007 data)
1. China 6,027
2. United States 5,769
3. Russia 1,587
4. India 1,324
5. Japan 1,236
6. Germany 798
7. Canada 572
8. Britain 523
9. South Korea 488
10. Mexico 437
11. Indonesia 377
12. France 369
13. Brazil 347
14. South Africa 345
15. Argentina 162
Per-capita emissions (carbon dioxide equivalent — tonnes per head, 2008 data)
1 United States 19.1
2 Canada 17.37
3 Russia 11.21
4 South Korea 10.09
5 Germany 9.71
6 Japan 9.68
7 Britain 8.6
8 South Africa 7.27
9 France 5.81
10 China 4.57
11 Mexico 4.14
12 Argentina 4.12
13 Brazil 1.81
14 Indonesia 1.67
15 India 1.18
World average 4.38
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