greenhouse gases carbon dioxide emissions per capita, 2008
Greenland (Den)
15.0 metric tons or more 10.0–14.9 metric tons
Faeroe Islands (Den)
Iceland
5.0–9.9 metric tons
The Netherlands
1.0–4.9 metric tons
C a n a d a
less than 1.0 metric tons
Isle of Man (UK)
United Kingdom Ireland
no data
Channel Islands (UK) Fra
Luxembourg Liechtenstein
U n i t e d
Andorra
S t a t e s
British Virgin Islands (UK) The Bahamas
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
Mexico
Cayman Islands (UK) Belize
Middle East & North Africa 3.8 metric tons US Virgin Islands (US)
Antigua and Barbuda
St. Lucia
Guadeloupe (Fr)
Trinidad Grenada and Tobago R.B. de Venezuela Guyana Colombia Suriname
Cape Verde
Alg
Western Sahara
Barbados St. Vincent and the Grenadines
French Guiana (Fr)
Mauritania Senegal
The Gambia
Martinique (Fr)
Ecuador
Peru
Morocco
St. Martin (Fr) Sint Maarten (Neth) St. Kitts and Nevis
Dominica
Spain
Portugal
Gibraltar (UK)
Haiti
Jamaica
Curaçao (Neth)
Latin America & Caribbean 2.8 metric tons
Dominican Republic Puerto Rico (US)
Cuba
Guatemala Honduras Aruba (Neth) El Salvador Nicaragua Panama Costa Rica
Kiribati
Monaco
Bermuda (UK)
Mali
Burkina Faso Guinea-Bissau Guinea Benin Ghana Sierra Leone Côte d'Ivoire Liberia Togo São Tomé and Príncipe
B r a z i l
French Polynesia (Fr) Bolivia
Paraguay
Uruguay
Chile Argentina
Use of biomass energy increases health risks for many poor people who depend on biomass energy from plant materials or animal wastes for cooking and heating
Greatest increase in emissions between 1990 and 2008 Rank
126
Country
Increase in carbon dioxide emissions (million metric tons of oil equivalent)
1
China
4,571
2
India
1,052
3
United States
582
4
Iran, Islamic Rep.
311
5
Korea, Rep.
265
6
Indonesia
256
7
Saudi Arabia
219
8
Thailand
190
9
Brazil
184
10
Malaysia
152