China’s Soaring Emissions Are Upending Climate Politics (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Still, it is worth emphasising that China’s emissions remain far behind those of the EU on a per-capita basis.

When weighting historical emissions per head of population in 2024, China’s contribution is just 227tCO2 per capita, less than a third of the 682tCO2 for people in the EU27.

[-] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

When historically weighted. Currently China puts out much more per capita per year (8.4t per capita to Europe’s 5.6t). The US and Canada are still way above that, but they’re pretty consistently going down year over year while China is only going up.

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