China emits more carbon dioxide than the USA and the UE together

Global emissions of carbon dioxide increase year after year. Despite the effort in investing in renewable energy or energy efficiency, according to the 2018 BP Statistical Review of World Energy data, the world reached a new historic maximum of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2017. 

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Since 1965, no country has put more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than the United States. The 264 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide that the United States has emitted into the atmosphere accounted for 22.5% of global emissions during that time, and were well above the 216 billion cumulative metric tons of the European Union ( EU). Second among the countries are the 188 billion metric tons issued by China. 

But as China has industrialized - with a heavy reliance on coal - Chinese emissions have soared beyond those of the United States and the EU.

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China's emissions exceeded those of the United States in 2005, and by 2012 they had exceeded the combined contribution of the United States and the EU. If recent trends continue, China will be responsible for most of the atmospheric carbon dioxide in less than 20 years.