CO2 emissions data

[biffvernon]

The Guardian has published a lot CO2 data:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog ... y-data-co2

[RogueMale]

The Guardian has published a lot CO2 data:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog ... y-data-co2

World carbon dioxide emissions data by country: China speeds ahead of the rest

The headline is misleading. China is being blamed because its population is large. China's per capita emissions are 5.83 tonnes per annum. The Americans emit 17.63 and Britons 8.35. Furthermore, some of the CO2 is emitted during the production of goods destined for the developed world (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 151041.htm), so China's emissions are an overestimate and the developed world's are an underestimate.

[Pepperman]

The headline is correct, but doesn't tell the whole picture as you say.

The Ecologist has an article on just that:

China's extra emissions

More than 30 per cent of consumption-based emissions were imported in countries including the UK, France, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria in 2004, according to a March 2010 report by the Carnegie Institution.
Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions found 6.2 gigatonnes of CO2 (23 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions) were traded internationally in 2004 – ‘primarily as exports from China and other emerging markets to consumers in developing countries’. It calculated that factoring in net imports would add 4 tonnes to the annual carbon footprint of the average European (currently 11 tonnes a year) and 2.4 tonnes to that of the average American (currently 20 tonnes).

It also revealed that 22.5 per cent of China’s net emissions in 2004 were embodied in goods exported to foreign consumers, primarily in the US, Japan and Western Europe.

Chinese CO2 emissions increased by 45 per cent from 2002 to 2005, according to a 2009 report by the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research (Cicero): ‘Half of the increase was due to export production, 60 per cent of which was exported to western countries.’

Dr Nick Eyre, leader of the Lower Carbon Futures Group at Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, says emissions outsourcing will need to be addressed if we want China and other rapidly industrialising countries involved in an effective global climate deal to replace Kyoto.

‘China will certainly raise the fact that the reason its territorial emissions are going up is because – to a considerable extent – it’s the industrial workshop for the world.’

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_a ... usion.html

[RenewableCandy]

So there I was in the Oxfam bookshop and they've got some o'they Red Noses for Red Nose Day...and they're made in China, and they're not even bloody recyclable! Grrr!!