1. China
Emissions – 10,540,749.59 Ktons CO2
It’s no surprise just who tops the list of the worst kids on the block when it comes to pollution. Frankly, if you’ve watched the news in the past few months you already know that there are days when people in some Chinese cities don’t even get to see the sky due to all the smog. It’s a troublesome situation when you have to wear a mask just to get out of the house because the air is not breathable, but that’s the case for millions and millions of people in China. According to research, air pollution in China causes 1.6 million premature deaths every year.
CO2 emissions in China have been above 9 billion tonnes since 2010, despite the country’s efforts to portray itself as one of the biggest combatants of global warming. So far, the country wants to put into practice a new national cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions, starting in 2017. Officials have also said that its CO2 emissions would peak sometime around 2030, and possibly earlier, while also looking to increase the fraction of energy from renewable resources from 11 percent to 20 percent by 2030. Either way, China is by far the number one member on the list of the 11 worst countries that are responsible for global warming.
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