Following is a ranking of industrialised nations by their rises in greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2004, issued by the UN climate change secretariat on Monday.
(First column is percentage change between 2004 and 1990, the baseline for the UN's Kyoto Protocol on limiting global warming. Other columns are millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent):
| 2004-1990 | 2004 | 2003 | 2000 | 1990 | |
| Turkey | 72.6 | 293.8 | 284.1 | 278.9 | 170.2 |
| Spain | 49 | 427.9 | 408.2 | 384.2 | 287.2 |
| Portugal | 41 | 84.5 | 83.7 | 82.2 | 60 |
| Canada | 26.6 | 758.1 | 753.8 | 725 | 598.9 |
| Greece | 26.6 | 137.6 | 137.3 | 131.8 | 108.7 |
| Australia | 25.1 | 529.2 | 520.2 | 504.2 | 423.1 |
| Ireland | 23.1 | 68.5 | 68.4 | 68.7 | 55.6 |
| New Zealand | 21.3 | 75.1 | 75.6 | 70.3 | 61.9 |
| Liechtenstein | 18.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | n/a | 0.2 |
| United States | 15.8 | 7,067.60 | 6,952.60 | 6,975.90 | 6,103.30 |
| Austria | 15.7 | 91.3 | 92.5 | 81.3 | 78.9 |
| Finland | 14.5 | 81.4 | 85.7 | 70 | 71.1 |
| Italy | 12.1 | 582.5 | 577.4 | 554.6 | 519.6 |
| Norway | 10.3 | 54.9 | 54.3 | 53.5 | 49.8 |
| Japan | 6.5 | 1,355.20 | 1,358.30 | 1,345.50 | 1,272.10 |
| Netherlands | 2.4 | 218.1 | 215.7 | 214.4 | 213 |
| Belgium | 1.4 | 147.9 | 147.5 | 147.4 | 145.8 |
| Switzerland | 0.4 | 53 | 52.5 | 51.7 | 52.8 |
| Luxembourg | 0.3 | 12.7 | 11.4 | 9.7 | 12.7 |
| European Union | -0.6 | 4,228.00 | 4,216.50 | 4,129.30 | 4,252.50 |
| France | -0.8 | 562.6 | 561.1 | 561.4 | 567.1 |
| Slovenia | -0.8 | 20.1 | 19.7 | 18.8 | 20.2 |
| Denmark | -1.1 | 69.6 | 75.5 | 69.6 | 70.4 |
| Monaco | -3.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Sweden | -3.5 | 69.9 | 70.9 | 68.4 | 72.4 |
| Iceland | -5 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
| Croatia | -5.4 | 29.4 | 29.2 | 25.3 | 31.1 |
| Britain | -14.3 | 665.3 | 664.5 | 672.2 | 776.1 |
| Germany | -17.2 | 1,015.30 | 1,024.40 | 1,022.80 | 1,226.30 |
| Czech Republic | -25 | 147.1 | 147.6 | 149.2 | 196.2 |
| Slovakia | -30.4 | 51 | 51.1 | 49.4 | 73.4 |
| Poland | -31.2 | 388.1 | 382.6 | 386.2 | 564.4 |
| Hungary | -31.8 | 83.9 | 84.3 | 81.9 | 123.1 |
| Russia | -32 | 2,024.20 | 2,021.60 | 1,944.80 | 2,974.90 |
| Romania | -41 | 154.6 | 148.6 | 131.8 | 262.3 |
| Belarus | -41.6 | 74.4 | 69.8 | 69.8 | 127.4 |
| Bulgaria | -49 | 67.5 | 67.7 | 64.3 | 132.3 |
| Estonia | -51 | 21.3 | 21.4 | 19.7 | 43.5 |
| Ukraine | -55.3 | 413.4 | 416 | 395.1 | 925.4 |
| Latvia | -58.5 | 10.7 | 10.7 | 9.9 | 25.9 |
| Lithuania | -60.4 | 20.2 | 17.2 | n/a | 50.9 |
| TOTAL | -3.3 | 17,931.60 | 17,767.00 | 17,514.60 | 18,551.50 |
| of which: | |||||
| ex-communist | -36.8 | 3,506.00 | 3,487.60 | 3,366.90 | 5,551.00 |
| other | 11 | 14,425.60 | 14,279.40 | 14,147.70 | 13,000.50 |
| KYOTO TOTAL | -15.3 | 10,011.50 | 9,980.90 | 9,730.30 | 11,823.80 |
All countries except the United States, Australia, Turkey and Croatia are parties to the Kyoto Protocol, under which 35 nations and the European Union have to cut emissions by about 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. Belarus does not yet have a target under Kyoto.
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
