Top 10 carbon emitting countries

We’re living on the same earth, single atmosphere –but all of us don’t receive the same natural resources and experiencing different path and speed of economic development. Some countries now become the richest who developed one and other become the poor, or call them developing countries.

Developed countries emitted higher carbon dioxide,  an important substance that heating up our climate. Let see which countries that have  emitted huge carbon in the past;they contributed to current global warming phenomenon. All carbon emission data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. However, data excludes emissions from land use and agriculture (including deforestation)

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    list of co2 emitting countries 2011, top-10 emitting countries in 2006

Forestry creates more jobs in financial crisis

More countries are fighting the current economic recession as we can see in this week’s London Summit of Group of 20 meeting. Leaders of the world’s 20 largest economic powers discuss the global recession and decide new measures establishing the world on a more stable economic footing. In facts, many countries are facing the facts that their economic growth is decreasing, less exports and more jobs are loss. Many governments then made a plan of new economic stimulus for various sectors, including natural resources business such forestry. The new economic stimulus is expected to create more jobs.

I noted a press release of FAO referring recent report on Green Jobs by ILO. According to the study, unemployment worldwide could increase from 179 million in 2007 to 198 million in 2009 under the best case scenario.  With the worst case scenario, it reach higher as 230 million.

Another estimation of  job losses in US says it spread from construction, retail, professional services until manufacturing. The number were varies from 12,000 to 51,000 for each sector.

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