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BBC NEWS | Science\/Nature | Australians named worst emitters<\/a>
\nThis article claims that the Australians are the worst emitters on the planet, because they emit more CO2 per capita than any other country on the planet. But, surely, a better method of comparison would be seeing how efficient each nation is; that is, comparing nations emissions based upon that country’s economic output, which can be measured by proxy by comparing emissions per $ of GDP. The World Resources Institute has an online database<\/a> that has just such a measure (and many more). Looking at 2002, the last year available, the least efficient country is Uzbekistan, which throws out 9335.6 metric tons of CO2 per million $ of GDP. By comparison, Australia does less than a 10th of that, 694.7 metric tons per million $, just besting the world average of 706.<\/p>\n

Here’s a graph I did comparing the emissions of several countries and the global average for the period 1982-2002:<\/p>\n

Metric Tons of CO2 emissions per $1MM GDP
\n\"Co2<\/a>
\n(click thumbnail for larger version)<\/p>\n

When the very inefficient (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and China) and relatively inefficient (India, South Africa, Indonesia) countries are excluded, we get this graph:<\/p>\n

Metric Tons of CO2 emissions per $1MM GDP
\n\"Co2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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