In the club - Kyoto 2.0

To celebrate Australia's continuance in a fairly ineffective treaty, I am listing our fellow travellers in the Kyoto Protocol (and their share of global carbon emissions...emissions data is from 2009 but it hasn't changed that much)

1. Germany (2.5%)
2. UK (1.7%)
3. Australia (1.4%)
4. Italy (1.3%)
5. France (1.3%)
6. Spain (1.1%)
7. Poland (0.9%)
8. Ukraine (0.8%)
9. Netherlands (0.8%)
10. Kazakhstan (0.6%)
11.Belgium (0.5%)
12. Greece (0.3%)
13. Czech Republic (0.3%)
14. Romania (0.3%)
15. Austria (0.2%)
16. Belarus (0.2%)
17. Portugal (0.2%)
18. Finland (0.2%)
19. Sweden (0.2%)
20. Hungary (0.2%)
21. Denmark (0.2%)
22. Switzerland (0.2%)
23. Bulgaria (0.2%)
24. Ireland (0.1%)
25. Norway (0.1%)
26. Slovakia (0.1%)
27.Croatia (0.1%)
28. Estonia (0.1%)
29. Slovenia (0.1%)
30. Lithuania (0.1%)
31. Luxembourg (Negligible)
32. Cyprus (Negligible)
33. Latvia (Negligible)
34. Iceland (Negligible)
35. Malta (Negligible)
36. Monaco (Negligible)
37. Liechtenstein (Negligible)

So we have 17% of nations (or 37 out of 219) representing around 16% of global emissions taking part in this extended treaty. This is down from Kyoto 1 which had 19% of nations representing around 27% of global emissions thanks to the big guns of Russia (5.2%), Japan (3.6%) and Canada (1.8%) being included.

Anyway you look at it, the new treaty is a damp squib and won't do a lot to reduce emissions. Thanks for signing us up, guys!