China absolutely dominates in installed renewable energy capacity
The leading countries for installed renewable energy in 2022 were China, the U.S., and Brazil.
Can't wait for the libs to say: "bUt cHInA Is THe BigGEsT PolLUteR". Not acknowledging this and the fact that most stuff is made over there.
The funny part is that despite the fact that the west outsources a bunch of its production to China, per capita emissions in China are still lower than most western countries.
China should be the biggest polluter anyway, it's the biggest country.
Tied with India but India is much less industrialized.
ELEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE GIGAWATTS, MARTY!
Yes, and no.
As a Canadian, I'll shamelessly plug the Canadian numbers for a minute.
If we do per capita, Canada leads those 3 in renewable energy generated, at:
I didn't do the other countries, so there's possibly a higher country.
Canada is literally the worst out of all G7 countries in terms of per capita emissions https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-contradictory-spending-slow-pace-trouble-trudeau-governments-emissions/
I'm not really sure how I feel about hydroelectric being classified as renewable. On one hand it doesn't emit but when you look at projects like the James Bay plant, it's hard to ignore the massive amount of emissions that went into creating the infrastructure and the permanent impact on the landscape.
I'd suppose this is kind of off-topic and is more of a question of how renewable hydroelectric power generation is on a project by project basis based on environmental and ecosystem impact.
Edit: forgot to mention, the impact on indigenous lands as well in many of the colonized countries.
I've been reading the whole debate with Yog and Grain and I just want to say I generally agree with you on that point. Maybe it's the debate bro in me but it feels hypocritical that we always bring up the per capita ratio except when it looks good.
But overall, the biggest China W is when compared to a comparable capitalist country: India. That's the proof of socialism's superiority
The graph is about energy capacity, for energy production numbers (found https://www.irena.org/Publications/2023/Jul/Renewable-energy-statistics-2023), Canada actually has around 12.0 MWh/person, as opposed to China's 1.7 MWh/person.
Just want to point to this annual statistical publication by the IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) for more details about the type of renewables by country and numbers over a decade: Renewable energy statistics 2023 https://www.irena.org/Publications/2023/Jul/Renewable-energy-statistics-2023
For example it shows that total renewable energy capacity in
It also shows energy production of those renewables in GWh for those interested.