Based on annual emissions data from the year 2004, and on a per -
capita consumption basis, the top - 5 emitting countries were found to be (in tCO2 per person, per year): Luxembourg (34.7), the US (22.0), Singapore (20.2), Australia (16.7), and Canada (16.6).
Not exact matches
Fueled by changing consumer perception of dairy's nutritional value for bone development, concerns around hormones and antibiotics, increase in milk allergies, rising milk prices, and the popularity of plant -
based milks, U.S. milk
consumption has been steadily declining by 25 percent per
capita since the mid-1970s.
The United States is the world's largest consumer of wine, and
consumption is increasing on a total and per -
capita basis, according to the Wine Institute.
Based on average alcohol content levels, per
capita consumption of pure alcohol was 8.09 litres per person.
Based on chocolate's support for cognitive function, he decided to see if chocolate
consumption was related to another measure of cognition — Nobel Prize awards per
capita.
Based on 2003 data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, per - capita soy protein consumption is less than 1 gram (g) per day in most European and North American countries, although certain subpopulations such as vegetarians, Asian immigrants, and infants fed soy - based formula consume
Based on 2003 data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, per -
capita soy protein
consumption is less than 1 gram (g) per day in most European and North American countries, although certain subpopulations such as vegetarians, Asian immigrants, and infants fed soy -
based formula consume
based formula consume more.
A global warming phenomenon in our spaceship is one of several unintended effects of the unregulated, swift increase of 1) absolute global human population numbers, 2) per
capita consumption of limited resources, and 3) large - scale business activities that could be occurring synergistically and approaching a point in history when it will not be possible for the Earth's resource
base and frangible ecosystems services to sustain life as we now know it to be.
Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per -
capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource
base, is a misconception, I suppose.
Based on the per
capita consumption of electricity in India, the power production of the plant is sufficient to supply 165.000 people with clean electricity from residual rice husk.
At this rate, non-OECD nations account for 83 % of global growth and consume 67 % more energy than OECD nations by 2035, although their energy
consumption is still far lower on a per
capita basis.
In the second report, The World Bank found four key reasons why deforestation in Central Africa is comparatively low: Road transport networks are sparse and poorly maintained; abundant mining resources remain largely untapped; wood -
based energy is the largest share of the energy portfolio, but per
capita charcoal
consumption is low; and the agricultural sector has been neglected and underfunded.
Per
capita biophysical boundaries are then compared to
consumption -
based footprint indicators that account for international trade.
TonyW, see table 3 («Current per
capita CO2e emissions -
consumption based»).
As the current agreements being negotiated are
based on inertia (again see above), the per
capita emissions, whether
consumption or production
based, are not factored into the agreements.
While per
capita emissions of developed countries appear to be stabilizing when measured within the country of production, this is largely due to the shift in the location of energy - intensive manufacturing to developing countries, and estimates of developed countries» per
capita emissions measured
based on their
consumption show that they continued to grow [122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130].
Consumption patterns and associated per capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing pow
Consumption patterns and associated per
capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a
consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing pow
consumption -
based calculation rather than a national territorial production -
based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing power parity).
At First Glance The most striking thing that you can't help but notice the first time you run the visualization is just how fast both energy
consumption and CO2 emissions grow in Asia (though on a per
capita basis, they're still much lower than the US).