Australia overtakes U.S. in per capita CO2 emissions

The average Australian contributes 20.58 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year to cool homes, drive cars and generate electricity with coal, the U.K.-based risk assessment company Maplecroft said Thursday. The U.S. fell to second at 19.78 tons per inhabitant a year while Canada was third at 18.81 tons.

The ranking indicates how much more people in wealthier nations emit than those in large developing countries, a key argument used by China and India to push for emissions cuts in the U.S., Europe and Japan as the United Nations aims to write a climate-change treaty in Copenhagen in December.

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