( China followed by US, and India ).
If you adjust by per capita - then all the energy producing countries are top - but then they are emitting for other people - Turkmenistan isn't producing all that energy for domestic consumption.
Easy to point fingers.
It's the consumers, not the producers per se that are the problem.
Irrespective of which party is the proximate cause of energy extraction in Turkmenistan, the large volume leakage of methane according to the article is not an inevitable byproduct of oil drilling. What’s more, the incremental costs of controlling methane emissions are tiny. And finally, consumers couldn’t go re-light methane flares at the drill sites even if they wanted to.
All of the discussions around who is a larger consumer are pointless; the point is that they could be doing more, and at a very small cost to them directly.
If you use consumption based accounting, Luxembourg comes out number 1, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions
I get what you're saying here, something like, "we couldn't change it if we tried" but we wouldn't even if we could. We're fighting a proxy war with Russia right now over access to fossil fuel right now. Releasing tons and tons of CO2 for the right to release more CO2 in the future.
Sounds complex. There are open questions as to whether those regions that open up for farming would have the soil to support it. And whether reduction in rainfall elsewhere in Russia would cancel out the gains. They have already benefited from current warming.
I assure you, no one had noticed anything substantial.
Edit: probably changed to possibly. Downvoted immediately because who knows?
Not exactly. “We just need to offer a bigger carrot than Russia does”
You don't assume that the relationships between the West and the Global South is a clean slate, right?
I agree that western nations could take a page out of China's book and look to having more of a presence in developing and underdeveloped nations, including financing and building infrastructure, but hopefully without seeking leverage (e.g., Sri Lanka.. though the incompetent government only has themselves to blame).