China: 7.5
And EU is about 500 million people.
Source: 2014 numbers from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/en.atm.co2e.pc
It counts toward China's emissions total. Whilst having reduced EU or US contribution comparatively speaking. We globalised manufacturing emissions, and most of them ended up in China.
The simple fact is no one can claim their halo - everyone, everywhere has a part in the solution, and we can find failings to criticise everywhere too.
Maybe Orkney got closest to their get out of jail card, but they're tiny.
Not that I disagree, but it is not just Europeans' choice to buy from China, but also Chineses' choice not to sell.
How did you get to that number? EU is about 500 million people, The US and Canada is about 350, Add in any other countries you might consider 'western' and that's another 50-100 million.
By people who apparently don't even know the meaning of the word.
> The western world, of about 500 million people, pollute 4x more than China which has 1.2B people.
The western world has a much larger population, but I'd like to see you back that claim up with reproducible numbers.
It's a fact that CO2 emissions in China are growing rapidly (per capita and absolutely) while the "western world" is mostly reducing them and has been doing that for many years. Also, we have to rely on China's "official data", which may or may not be correct.
If it's a fact you should be able to cite a source?
> Also, we have to rely on China's "official data", which may or may not be correct.
The rest of the world is more than capable of monitoring China's emissions using satellite data.
China rapidly tripled their emissions from 2000 to 2010, but after 2011 they have hardly increased at all.
Second graph here: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-chinas-co2-emissions-...
Report dated 30 Nov 2018
"China is positioning itself as a global climate leader, and its actions have an enormous impact on global greenhouse gas emissions. Discouragingly, a rise in coal consumption drove Chinese CO2 emissions to a new high in 2017, which will likely be exceeded again in 2018."
The western world, of about 500 million people, pollute 4x more than China which has 1.2B people.