how does it work when international institutions are involved? many polluting processes are outsourced to the global south because its cheaper, but the profits go to the global north, who is getting the emissions debt in these cases? what about financial debts paid with the profits of polluting processes?
i feel like these studies will never paint the real picture because it tries to isolate carbon emissions per country without taking in mind the relations of production. for example trinidad y tobago, without knowing anything about the country i can bet that whatever industry they have (i bet its energy) is primarily owned by foreign companies and thus they are profiting off that but trinidad y tobago assumes the emissions debt as we see here.
I agree, but even when a lot of emissions externalized, western countries are looking pretty terrible while China's emissions per capita are pretty low. Given that China is a major industrial power, that's quite an achievement.
I don't know if you saw the other responses below, but this data does not take into account trade, either imported or exported, but other sources people have linked to does take into account trade, and actually might be more interesting, and more accurate, results.
i can't stop being skeptical off these studies.
how does it work when international institutions are involved? many polluting processes are outsourced to the global south because its cheaper, but the profits go to the global north, who is getting the emissions debt in these cases? what about financial debts paid with the profits of polluting processes?
i feel like these studies will never paint the real picture because it tries to isolate carbon emissions per country without taking in mind the relations of production. for example trinidad y tobago, without knowing anything about the country i can bet that whatever industry they have (i bet its energy) is primarily owned by foreign companies and thus they are profiting off that but trinidad y tobago assumes the emissions debt as we see here.
I agree, but even when a lot of emissions externalized, western countries are looking pretty terrible while China's emissions per capita are pretty low. Given that China is a major industrial power, that's quite an achievement.
I don't know if you saw the other responses below, but this data does not take into account trade, either imported or exported, but other sources people have linked to does take into account trade, and actually might be more interesting, and more accurate, results.