List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita

Per capita GHG emissions in 2005, including land-use change

Per capita GHG emissions in 2000, not including land-use change

GHG emissions by country in 2005, including land-use change

Per capita responsibility for current atmospheric carbon dioxide level, including land-use change

This is a list of countries ranked by greenhouse-gas emissions per capita in 2000. It is based on data for carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon and sulfur hexafluoride emissions compiled by the World Resources Institute^[1] (WRI) from a variety of sources, including CDIAC and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Bunker-fuel emissions are not included.

Two sets of per capita emissions are given, one with an estimate of the effects of land-use change (for example, cutting down forests) and one without. The former is based on regional estimates in Houghton (2003).^[2] Difficulties with determining rates of deforestation and the magnitude of carbon stocks held by the remaining forests and with distributing regional carbon fluxes among individual countries mean that the land-use change components have a large margin of error, perhaps as large as +/-150% in some cases.

They are included here because, although difficult to quantify accurately at a country level, land-use change is a significant contributor to global warming. The WRI estimates that it accounted for almost a fifth of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2000. For 2005 the data for a large number of countries only includes CO₂ emissions (see note 12.)

List of countries by emissions

¹Compatible land-use change data not available for 2000

See also

• List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
• List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions
• List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions
• Asian brown cloud
• Climate change
• Global warming
• LULUCF

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