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Starting today the world gathers in Durban for the COP17 climate change summit<\/a>. In times where economic growth is more anticipated than a decline in carbon emissions, the prospects for a successful successor to the Kyoto protocol<\/a> (coming to an end in 2012) is quite unlikely, and it will be interesting to see, what ‘success’ the delegates have to announce for saving the world from mad<\/a> and often also tragic<\/a> consequences of changing climate patterns.
\nThe most recent complete views of global carbon emissions are still those released by the United Nations for 2008<\/a> which I updated using some additional information to reflect the impact of the global economic crisis in 2008\/09 as part of an update to the series of worldmapper cartograms on carbon emissions<\/a>. The following two maps are a reminder of these cartograms that demonstrate, how big the industrialised nations still are in their carbon emissions – only followed by those regions (namely China) that produced much of the goods that are consumed in the wealthier parts of the world.
\nTime for a change?<\/a> That was before the crisis…the outcome of Durban 2011 could be a manifestation of this image – with absolute levels hardly declining (if at all):<\/p>\n

Carbon Emissions 2009<\/strong>:
\n\"Cartogram<\/a>
\n(click for larger version)<\/span><\/a>
\nAnimation CO2-Emissions 2006-2009<\/strong>:
\n\"Development<\/p>\n

The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Please contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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