{"id":430970,"date":"2010-03-15T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=9846"},"modified":"2010-03-15T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:06:25","slug":"who-are-the-world%e2%80%99s-biggest-polluters-carnegie-institution-takes-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/430970","title":{"rendered":"Who are the world\u2019s biggest polluters? Carnegie Institution takes a look"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: Carnegie Institution for Science<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assessments of which nations are the world\u2019s biggest polluters can be deceiving. A study by the Carnegie Institution for Science<\/a> has determined that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions stemming from the consumption of goods and services in developed countries are actually released outside their borders.<\/p>\n

For instance, if Americans buy goods produced in China, they are effectively \u201coutsourcing\u201d the carbon footprint while not technically doing the polluting on home soil.<\/p>\n

According to the study, about 2.5 tons of carbon per person are consumed in the U.S. but produced elsewhere. Europeans, on average, top four tons per person.
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\n\u201cInstead of looking at carbon dioxide emissions only in terms of what is released inside our borders, we also looked at the amount of carbon dioxide released during the production of the things that we consume,\u201d says co-author Ken Caldeira<\/a>, a researcher in the Carnegie Institution\u2019s Department of Global Ecology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The study used 2004 data to create a model of the flow of products across 57 industry sectors and 113 countries or regions. Researchers calculated the net emissions \u201cimported\u201d or \u201cexported\u201d by specific countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like the electricity that you use in your home probably causes CO2 emissions at a coal-burning power plant somewhere else, we found that the products imported by the developed countries of western Europe, Japan, and the United States cause substantial emissions in other countries, especially China,\u201d lead author Steven Davis<\/a> said. \u201cOn the flip side, nearly a quarter of the emissions produced in China are ultimately exported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some European nations generally not thought of as major offenders come off looking a bit less \u201cgreen\u201d in the report, which claims that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions linked to goods and services consumed in many of those countries actually occurred elsewhere. Switzerland, for one, outsourced emissions that exceeded the amount of carbon dioxide produced within national borders.<\/p>\n

The United States is both a major importer and a major exporter of trade-based emissions. The net result is that the U.S. outsources about 11 percent of total consumption-based emissions, primarily to the developing world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image: Carnegie Institution for Science From Green Right Now Reports Assessments of which nations are the world\u2019s biggest polluters can be deceiving. A study by the Carnegie Institution for Science has determined that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions stemming from the consumption of goods and services in developed countries are actually released outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}