It is essential for all countries to reduce their greenhouse gas production in order to prevent the disastrous effects of global warming and climate change. Unfortunately greenhouse gas emissions continue their upward climb annually and agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol have had little effect on this continuing increase. Use of high efficiency gas furnaces and elimination of coal burning power plants would greatly reduce greenhouse gas production. Here are figures for the top greenhouse gas emitters as listed by Wikipedia:
List of countries by 2010 emissions estimates
CDIAC released preliminary 2010 estimates for a limited number of countries. Following table is listing annual CO2 emissions estimates (in thousands of CO2 metric tonnes) from these estimates for top emitting countries.
Country CO2 emissions[14] Area (in km2) Population Emission / km2 Emission / Person
World 33,508,901 148,940,000 6,852,472,823 2,250 49
China 8,240,958 9,640,821 1,339,724,852 8,548 62
United States 5,492,170 9,826,675 312,793,000 5,589 176
India 2,069,738 3,287,263 1,210,193,422 6,296 17
Russia 1,688,688 17,075,400 142,946,800 989 118
Japan 1,138,432 377,944 128,056,026 30,122 89
Germany 762,543 357,021 81,799,600 21,358 93
Iran 574,667 1,648,195 75,330,000 3,487 76
South Korea 563,126 100,210 48,875,000 56,195 115
Canada 518,475 9,984,670 34,685,000 519 149
Saudi Arabia 493,726 2,149,690 27,136,977 2,297 182
United Kingdom 493,158 243,610 62,262,000 20,244 79
Indonesia 476,557 1,919,440 237,424,363 2,483 20
Mexico 466,131 1,972,550 112,322,757 2,363 41
South Africa 451,839 1,221,037 50,586,757 3,700 89
Brazil 419 537 8,514,877 190,732,694 493 22
Italy 407 924 301,338 60,681,514 13,537 67
Australia 365 513 7,617,930 22,794,166 480 160
France 362 556 674,843 65,821,885 5,372 55
Poland 309 985 312,685 38,186,860 9,914 81
The above list is reproduced from Wikipedia
The major offenders are China and The USA which between them produce more than two thirds of the world greenhouse gas emissions.Unfortunately neither of these countries has entered into any agreement to reduce such emissions. Until China and the USA are prepared to reduce significantly their production of greenhouse gases any efforts by other nations will have very limited effect.
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