Report: Australia Overtakes U.S. in Per Capita CO2 Emissions

Australians have passed Americans as the world's biggest individual producers of carbon dioxide.

AFP reported Saturday that Australia topped a list of 185 countries in a report from the British firm Maplecroft, with a per capita output of 20.58 tons a year. That's 4 percent higher than the United States.

Canada, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia rounded out the top five. China remains the world's biggest overall greenhouse gas polluter...

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