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Dec 12, 2008, 14:01 GMT

BACKGROUND: The world's great powers and climate change

Brussels - A comparison of carbon-dioxide emissions from the world's major developed and developing economies in absolute and per-capita terms. <#> RANK COUNTRY EMISSIONS (million tons CO2) 1. United States 1576 2. China 1514 3. European Union 1043 4. Russia 410 5. India 383 6. Japan 336 7. South Korea 123 8. Canada 147 9. Mexico 115 10. Brazil 89 RANK COUNTRY EMISSIONS (tons CO2 per capita) 1. Canada 19.9 2. United States 19.7 3. Russia 12.19 4. South Korea 10.9 5. Japan 9.3 6. Europe 8.2 7. China 4.5 8. Mexico 3.8 9. Brazil 2.08 10. India 1.06 <#> NOTE: The per-capita figures for Europe concern the continent's members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which includes non-EU members Norway and Iceland, but omits EU members Bulgaria, the Baltic states, Romania, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus. Figures are estimates for 2006-07, the last period for which comparative figures are available. More recent studies say that China surpassed the United States as the world's top polluter in 2007. Source: US Energy Information Administration (per-capita figures), US Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (absolute figures).

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