David Symons |
We’re in the process of rolling our PACT scheme out to our international offices from January 2010. This includes offices in Sweden, USA, Romania, Middle East, South Africa, Australia.
Does anyone know if there is a schedule of average per capita emissions that covers individuals’ direct footprints?
Thoughts gratefully received (before we have a full blown row in our development team!).
Cheers
David
country comparisons
andy_ross
This gives economy wide (i.e. total per capita emissions) per capita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissio…
For a ranking of emitting economies, see http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/each-co…
In a pure C&C world that focuses purely on current emissions as a starting point and does not recognise historic emissions, high emitting developing economies like South Africa get a raw deal. Their per capita emissions are not much different from ours according to the above figures!
Middle Eastern country emissions vary massively depending on which country you pick.I think you will be struggling to find a breakdown of direct and indirect emissions without a fair bit of research although I am pretty sure you will find something for USA, Sweden and Australia. Try emailing Shannon at the Maryland CRAG for the US breakdown. For Australia try the folk at http://www.carbonequity.info/.
Look forward to hearing how the experiment goes, David!