This is why Cap and Trade will not work -
China and India already have VERY LOW CO2 emission per capita - And
they are STILL pumping out 26.78% of the world's CO2 emissions.
Because they have such a low CO2 emission per capita, they will be
allowed to continue producing the same CO2 emissions into the future.
2006 Carbon dioxide emissions In Annual Metric Tons per CAPITA, 2009
Population in Millions, and 2006 Annual Millions Metric Tons per
COUNTRY -
PER PER
CAPITA Pop COUNTRY
Qatar 56.2 1.4 46.2
U. Arab Em. 32.8 4.6 139.6
Kuwait 31.2 3.0 86.6
United States 19.0 308.1 5,752.3
Australia 18.1 22.0 372.0
Russia 10.9 141.9 1,564.7
Japan 10.1 127.6 1,293.4
United Kingdom 9.4 61.6 568.5
Hong Kong 5.5 7.0 39.0
China 4.6 1,334.6 6,103.5
Thailand 4.3 63.4 272.5
Mexico 4.1 107.5 436.2
Brazil 1.9 192.2 352.5
India 1.3 1,173.6 1,510.4
Bangladesh 0.3 162.2 41.6
WORLD 4.18 6,802.3 28,431.7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emis...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emis...
(sorry about having to use wikipedia, I did not have the time to
search elsewhere)
Quoted from - The reason that China and India will not be going green
http://groups.google.com/group/politicalforum/browse_thread/thread/214192b4c2fb3597
December 7, 2009 - China Takes Tiny Steps on Climate Change
...The recent announcements from the U.S. and China were clearly meant
as signals to the world that both countries are taking the issue of
emissions seriously.
The question is how seriously...The environmental downside is that
there's far less certainty about how much emissions will change
compared with business as usual, at least in the next 10 years...
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/energy/2009/12/07/china-takes-tiny-steps-on-climate-change.html
9 November 2009 - India 'arrogant' to deny global warming link to
melting glaciers
...A leading climate scientist today accused the Indian environment
ministry of "arrogance" after the release of a government report
claiming that there is no evidence climate change has caused
"abnormal" shrinking of Himalayan glaciers...Jairam Ramesh, India's
environment minister, released the controversial report in Delhi,
saying it would "challenge the conventional wisdom" about melting ice
in the mountains...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/india-pachauri-climate-glaciers
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