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Table
.
Annual emissions and income of the
fifteen largest
emitters
CO
emissions
(million
tonnes)
CO
emissions
per capita
(tonnes)
GDP per capita
(
Region or
country
Population
(million)
US
dollars-PPP)
World
.
China
.
United States
.
European Union
.
India
.
Russian
Federation
.
Japan
.
Korea
.
Canada
.
Islamic Rep.
of Iran
.
Saudi Arabia
.
Mexico
.
Indonesia
.
Brazil
.
Australia
.
South Africa
.
Data from IEA Key World Energy Statistics
accepted, and the lessons of that Protocol are worth con-
sidering as the world tries to move ahead with the control
of greenhouse gas emissions. The Montreal Protocol,
aimed at the cause of the ozone hole over the Antarctic,
worked, while the Kyoto Protocol seems on the verge of
failure. The Montreal Protocol has resulted in a dramatic
cut in the emissions of the chloro
uorocarbons that are
the cause of the ozone hole. It was signed in
by the
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