Posted : August 2009
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Australia
has been named the world’s worst polluter in a new global ranking list. The list was posted on the Carbon Monitoring for Action
(Carma) website and looked at over 50,000 power stations worldwide to determine
its rankings. The list ranked countries according to the amount of CO2 produced
from generating power.
Carma hopes the list will help push countries towards lower carbon
emissions. Kevin Ummel is a research assistant with the Center for Global
Development, the company that compiled the data for the list. Ummel said: “The
experience of people in the environmental field has been that supplying the
public and markets with information that they did not have has often led to
improvements in environmental quality. There is no reason why this could not
happen for carbon emissions.”
Australia
is one of two nations, the other being the US,
which did not ratify the Kyoto
accords. The country regularly places in the top of lists of worst polluters. Environmental
groups have been actively pushing the government towards more environmentally
friendly policies, however. Earlier this week close to 150,000 people rallied
in cities and towns across Australia
to draw attention to global warming as an issue in the upcoming November 24
elections.
Source: BBC
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