Sentence examples for tons per capita from inspiring English sources

The US is at 16.6 tons per capita today.

In other words, in 1970, such emissions were about 3.8 tons per capita; today, despite the growing awareness of climate change, they have actually risen to about 4.2 tons per capita.

Right now, according to figures from the World Bank, the United States emits about seventeen tons of carbon dioxide per capita, and India emits 1.7 metric tons per capita.

On a per capita basis, carbon emissions have dropped from 22.5 to about 17 metric tons per capita – which does not sound impressive until you learn that in the decade before 1973, per capita emissions were climbing 3.5% annually.

For all its business acumen, the government has been accused of not putting in the same effort to cut the nation's growing greenhouse gas emissions, which at roughly 12 tons per capita are higher than some European countries'.

Although China and the United States are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, China's emissions on a per capita basis are significantly lower than those of the U.S.: in 2005, per capita emissions in China were 5.5 metric tons much less than the U.S. (23.5 metric tons per capita), and also lower than the world average of 7.03 metric tons.

Total beef production (thousands of tons), per-capita beef consumption (kilograms per person), volume of beef exports (thousands of tons), beef prices at the retail level (Arg. pesos/kg), and average beef export prices (US dollar per tons) were obtained from the Institute for the Promotion of Argentine Beef.

If we instead would include emissions from goods that are produced elsewhere and transported to Denmark for consumption (consumer emissions), you would generate a very different carbon footprint than the 7.6 ton per capita that Denmark is currently noted for in official records, namely a whopping 17 ton per capita.

Per capita means per person.

For example, that same year France had a per capita carbon footprint of 6.0 metric tons (6.6 short tons), whereas Brazil and Tanzania had carbon footprints of 1.8 metric tons (about 2 short tons) and 0.1 metric ton (0.1 short ton) of CO2 equivalent, respectively.

According to the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center and the United Nations Development Programme, in 2004 the average resident of the United States had a per capita carbon footprint of 20.6 metric tons (22.7 short tons) of CO2 equivalent, some five to seven times the global average.