Meanwhile, dividing each country’s climate contribution by its population paints a different picture. Amongst the 20 largest total emitters, developed countries occupy the top seven per-capita positions, with Canada falling in third place behind the United Kingdom and the United States. And in this ranking, China and India drop to the bottom of the list. (See Table 2)
Table 2. Total Versus Per-Capita Contributions to Temperature Change for World’s Top 20 Total Emitters.
Matthews’s study highlights how much individual countries have contributed to the climate problem, as well as the huge disparity between rich and poor with respect to per-person contributions to global warming. Acknowledging these disparities, and then moving to correct them, may be a fundamental requirement for success in efforts to decrease global greenhouse gas emissions.
Check the following link to read/down the Full Study – “National Contributions to Observed Global Warming”:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/1/014010/article
Source: Concordia University.
