Norway keeps working so hard at building an eco-friendly image.
In reality the oil they pump up from their territory makes them one of the world's most environmentally unfriendly countries (both in absolute numbers and particularly per capita).
In reality the oil they pump up from their territory makes them one of the world's most environmentally unfriendly countries (both in absolute numbers and particularly per capita).
1 Qatar 40.4
2 Trinidad and Tobago 34.5
3 Curacao 34.1
4 Kuwait 27.2
5 Bahrain 23.6
6 Sint Maarten 20.8
7 Brunei Darussalam 18.9
8 United Arab Emirates 18.7
9 Luxembourg 18.7
10 Saudi Arabia 17.9
11 United States 16.3
12 Australia 16.3
13 Oman 15.6
14 Gibraltar 15.4
15 Kazakhstan 15.4
16 Estonia 15.1
17 New Caledonia 14.6
18 Mongolia 14.5
19 Canada 13.5
20 Turkmenistan 12.7
21 Russian Federation 12.4
22 Faroe Islands 12.3
23 Korea, Rep. 11.7
24 Norway 11.7
25 Palau 10.6
26 Netherlands 10.1
27 Greenland 10.0
28 Japan 9.7
29 Czech Republic 9.3
30 Singapore 9.3
31 Cayman Islands 9.2
32 Germany 9.2
33 South Africa 8.8
34 Israel 8.8
35 Aruba 8.5
36 Finland 8.5
37 Belgium 8.3
38 Bahamas, The 8.2
39 Libya 8.1
40 Malaysia 8.0
41 Iran, Islamic Rep. 7.9
42 Poland 7.9
43 New Zealand 7.6
44 Ireland 7.6
45 China 7.5
46 Austria 7.3
47 Seychelles 7.1
48 United Kingdom 7.1
49 Slovenia 7.0
50 Equatorial Guinea 6.7
51 Denmark 6.7
Carbon intensity [2] for 2011 was the third lowest in Europe among measured countries.
[1] http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=2&ser...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_in...