China's per capita carbon emissions overtake EU's

[muriel_volestrangler]

New data on carbon shows that China's emissions per head of population have surpassed the EU for the first time.

The researchers say that India is also forecast to beat Europe's CO2 output in 2019.
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While the per capita average for the world as a whole is 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide, China is now producing 7.2 tonnes per person, to the EU's 6.8 tonnes. The US is still far ahead on 16.5 tonnes per person.
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This development will shine an interesting light on global climate negotiations where China has often used its relatively low per capita emissions to argue that it is on the same page as other developing countries, and that restrictions on its use of carbon were not justified.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29239194

India is, of course, still far behind on a per capita basis. China has the emissions for the manufacture of a lot of the world's goods; how you divide up 'blame' for that will probably a major argument in the talks.

http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/14/hl-full.htm

[OnlinePoker]

1. Oh, but they're "developing" countries

They were exempt at Kyoto. Any country that can launch satellites into space (or people in China's case) is no longer developing in my books.

[yeoman6987]

2. And that is one reason Americans are not crazy about money

Going towards climate change. You can't exempt countries or have large countries not be 100 percent and get anything done. If the United States completely wipped out emissions. What as a World would that get us?