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More like 6%, roughly in line with its population share (5.4%). Not sure if that includes air travel, international air travel often isn't included in national statistics. https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2025

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Whenever I see those statistics, I always find them very weird. Many of our products are made in China, but those are counted towards China's global emission, not Europe's. It also applies to the need of power generation for delocalized industry or importing food. A country handling a lot of industry will have a very high per-capita emission, but the people living there may actually have very low individual emissions.

They aren't, most emission statistics are counting imported emissions.

China's figure aren't that great on their own, with exportation deducted.

EDGAR assigns emissions geographically to the country where the emitting activity occurs. (so in this case no)

It's actually 12%, not 6%.

EDIT: 12% is all of Europe. This thread is about the EU.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

Europe, yes, EU, no. Alde had 5% for EU, I quoted a source for 6% for the EU.

Yes true.

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