Each Country's Change In Per-Capita CO2 Emissions From 1990 To 2016, Mapped

Knowing that the world has only about a decade to get climate change under control, there's a sense of imperative when we look at charts or figures like this:

Made by Redditor NaytaData using data from the European Commission's Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), the map visualizes the change in per-capita CO2 emissions in every country from 1990 to 2016. 

According to NaytaData, the countries that have seen the biggest decreases in carbon dioxide emissions per capita are Luxembourg, Ukraine and Bahrain. Luxembourg, in particular, has reduced its CO2 emissions to 17.61 tons per capita in 2016, which is around 12.9 tons less than its emissions in 1990.

If you look at the map, countries like Oman and China stand out as countries that have had their CO2 emissions increase drastically these past decades. China, for one, has seen an increase of 5.5 tons per capita and Oman is emitting 11.6 tons more CO2 in 2016 than it did in 1990.

While both the US and Russia are among the ranks of countries that have managed to decrease their CO2 emissions per person, these numbers come with major caveats. Both the US and Russia (still the Soviet Union at the time) were countries with some of the highest C02 emissions per capita in 1990, and the US has continued to contribute 15.56 tons of CO2 per person in 2016, a number that's still high compared to other countries.

[Via Reddit]