Climate in Numbers: per capita emissions decline

In the maelstrom of bad climate news, there are occasional glimmers of hope: Global per capita emissions have not increased since 2010, according to an analysis by the World Resources Institute. In fact, in many countries with the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, per capita emissions have actually decreased significantly since 1990, for example, in the US, the EU, Russia and Brazil. Some of the reasons are reduced coal usage and the expansion of renewables. In Russia, emissions fell due to the deindustrialization of the economy.