China will account for 27% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, making it the largest emitter and the first to exceed the combined emissions of the United States and other developed countries.
China’s greenhouse gas emissions will account for 27% of global emissions in 2019, surpassing those of the United States and other developed countries combined for the first time, according to a report published by the Rhodium Group, a U.S. research firm.
According to the data, China’s emissions of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, totaled 14.093 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2019, more than three times the 1990 level and for the first time higher than the combined emissions of all developed countries [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and the 27 member states of the European Union (EU)], which totaled 14.057 billion tons of CO2 equivalent.
The data also show that China’s GHG emissions accounted for 27% of total emissions in 2019, while the U.S. emissions accounted for 11%, the highest 2 countries, followed by India with 6.6% and the EU member states with a total of 6.4%.
On the other hand, China’s greenhouse gas emissions per capita reached 10.1 tons in the same year, much lower than the 17.6 tons per capita emitted by the United States; however, China’s per capita emissions have increased nearly three times as much as in the past 20 years.
In addition, Rongding said that the final global figures for 2020 have not yet been calculated, but China’s greenhouse gas emissions may have increased by 1.7% under the impact of the Chinese Communist Party virus epidemic, but the emissions of other countries have decreased, and China’s greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the same year will thus exceed the per capita emissions of OECD countries.
The report comes at a time when President Joe Biden has made climate change a key policy priority and is seeking China’s cooperation, amid increasing pressure to step up efforts to reach the Paris Agreement. The U.S. climate envoy, John Kerry, has repeatedly called on the U.S. government to work with China on climate change. John Kerry has repeatedly stressed that without commitments from developing countries like China and India, efforts to reduce emissions will be meaningless.
However, developing countries have long argued that developed countries have also emitted large amounts of greenhouse gases in the past century, and it is unfair to be required to reduce carbon at this time.
In this regard, U.S. Senator Rick Scott, a Republican, has said that it would be unfair to require carbon reductions at this time. Rick Scott tweeted on June 6 that the Chinese Communist Party is the world’s worst polluter, and that it is hard to believe what it can do to change the carbon reduction process.
Senator Rick Scott, a Republican, tweeted that the Chinese Communist Party is the world’s worst polluter and it is hard to believe that it can do anything to change the carbon reduction process. The U.S. Senator Rick Scott, a Republican, tweeted on June 6, questioning the Chinese Communist Party as the world’s worst polluter and finding it hard to believe what it could do to change the carbon reduction process.
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