The United States Energy Department’s Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center has ranked the Cayman Islands at number 55 on a list of 207 countries, for global carbon emissions per person.
Published on the BBC website in December 2007, in a study where all countries want to come in last, Cayman’s carbon footprint leaves a worldwide impression.
According to the report, the Cayman Islands national emissions (thousands of tonnes of carbon) are 85, and emissions per person (tonnes of carbon) equals 1.96. The statistics are for 2004, the year of Hurricane Ivan.
After several telephone calls and emails to the Department of Environment Health (DEH) this week, Cayman Net News received no comments at press time. An initial enquiry to the Department of Environment resulted in the newspaper being directed to the DEH Assistant Director Sean McGinn, who has responsibilities for the Solid Waste Unit.
Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands Antilles, and Bermuda are the only Caribbean islands ranked above the Cayman Islands in the US Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis.
The definition of carbon emissions is: a polluting carbon substance released into the atmosphere; carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide produced by motor vehicles and industrial processes and forming pollutants in the atmosphere.
A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.
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