Photo: Patrick Lydon | sociecity
Putting Google’s Public Data Explorer through its paces, we found some interesting graph-able statistics on per-capita carbon emissions for various countries.
There are two distinct groupings in this graph, with outliers on the top and bottom. Some interesting facts in this data, which spans from 1990 – 2006:
- Germany and Russia are the only countries in the group to significantly reduce their emissions over the time period
- China and South Korea, likely as a product of each countrys’ rapid industrialization, were the only countries to jump to the next highest group in the 16 year period
- Canada and the United States are ‘gross polluters’ of CO2 with 16.7 and 19 tonnes per-capita, respectively
- With the exception of major Middle-East fuel producing countries, the United States is the “Highest Carbon Emissions Per-Capita Champion,” and India the “Lowest Carbon Emissions Per-Capita Champion” amongst the major industrialized nations in this study
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