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Carbon emissions: past, present and future – interactive

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As the UN climate talks open in Lima to agree on a draft text for a treaty in Paris next year, here is a timeline of world’s top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide since the dawn of industrialisation dominated by UK and US.

This interactive is jointly produced with the World Resources Institute

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