[Archelaos]

To put some numbers on the table, in 2018 (I could not find more recent data) the values of CO2 emissions in metric tons per capita were as follows:[1]

  France 5.0 
  Germany 9.1  

For comparison:

  India 1.9
  EU 8.6
  China 8.0
  Japan 9.4
  Russia 12.1
  United States 16.1 
  Canada 16.1 
  Australia 16.8 
  

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

[natmaka]

Germany is richer (GDP) than France, 20% of its GDP comes from industry (10% in France), and its climate is colder.

[bigbizisverywyz]

Why is Australia so high? I doubt they need much heating, but is cooling so expensive?

[regpertom]

Having a squiz at the first page of results on that question, seems like it’s a per capita thing of being a large country with few people. Also, “including exports”, which means all the coal etc and thing they export to China etc is being counted. I don’t want to say it’s an accounting trick but it feels like an accounting trick. 7% of global fossil fuel exports counted against 0.3% of the worlds population (8bill vs 27mill). Is it also counted against the importing country when they use it? Because that feels like double counting.

[mc32]

That doesn’t sound right. Then Saudi Arabia and Russia should be super high west with all the fossil fuels they produce and export…

As you say that’s double counting.