Australia has overtaken the U.S. as the biggest emitter per person of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, according to a British risk analysis firm.
The U.K.-based risk assessment company Maplecroft says that 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.S. fell to second at 19.78 tons per inhabitant a year while Canada was third at 18.81 tons.
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