CAIRO: Following is a ranking of the top 50 national emitters of greenhouse gases in 2000, showing huge gaps in the world picture of emissions in recent years. Countries facing emissions caps under the Kyoto Protcool, plus several others such as the United States, have posted emissions reports for 2004 to the U.N. climate change body over the past few months. But big developing countries such as China and India do not face any obligations under Kyoto and the latest widely available estimates of their emissions comes from the World Resources Institute for 2000. Kyoto ratifier Russia has not updated its U.N. data since 1999. A summary of latest available data for the top 50 emitters are shown below in millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
Country 1990 2000 2004 1990 vs 2000 (PCT change)1 USA 6,033 6,928 7,074 +152 China 3,750 4,938 N.A +323 Russia 3,047 1,952 N.A -364 India 1,339 1,884 N.A +415 Japan 1,205 1,317 1,355 +96 Germany 1,199 1,009 1,015 -167 Brazil 686 851 N.A +248 Canada 565 680 758 +209 UK 727 654 659 -10 10 Italy 499 531 583 +711 South Korea 291 521 N.A +7912 France 546 513 563 -613 Mexico 432 512 N.A +1914 Indonesia 353 503 N.A +4215 Australia 408 491 534 +2016 Ukraine 926 482 381 -4817 South Africa356 417 N.A +1718 Iran 288 480 N.A +6719 Spain 289 381 428 +3220 Poland 461 381 386 -1821 Turkey 272 355 357 +3122 S. Arabia 204 341 N.A +6723 Argentina 249 289 N.A +1624 Pakistan 206 285 N.A +3825 Thailand 176 265 N.A +5126 Venezuela 199 240 N.A +2027 Taiwan 129 230 N.A +7928 Netherlands 210 215 219 +229 Nigeria 164 194 N.A +1830 Uzbekistan 163 180 N.A +1031 Egypt 127 178 N.A +3932 Malaysia 92 166 N.A +8033 Kazakhstan 329 161 N.A -5134 Colombia 130 160 N.A +2335 Belgium 134 148 148 +1136 Czech R 182 143 147 -2137 Vietnam 82 134 N.A +6438 Philippines 91 133 N.A +4639 Algeria 104 126 N.A +2240 Romania 244 125 155 -4941 Bangladesh 91 122 N.A +3542 Greece 100 120 138 +2043 UAE 67 117 N.A +7544 Nth Korea 169 112 N.A -3445 Iraq 88 101 N.A +1446 Sudan 85 96 N.A +1447 Myanmar 63 83 N.A +3148 Austria 77 80 91 +449 Portugal 57 79 85 +3850 Belarus 144 79 75 -45
Sources – 2004 data – UNFCCC 1990 and 2000 data – WRI
