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This is document sets out some of the important climate change statistics concerning energy use in Brazil.

Brazilian president, Lula da Silva, says (quite often) that “Brazil is in charge of looking after the Amazon” and, to be fair, his government has tried to reduce the rate of destruction. However, being in charge doesn’t mean paying the bill.

The Indian government has published an extremely ambitious plan to install 20GW of solar technology by 2020 – for both electricity generation and water heating. The International Energy Agency predicts that the total global solar capacity will be 27Gw in 2020, so this would mean that India had 75% of the total.

Russia produces 5% of annual global greenhouse gasses and is responsible for 8% of the historic contribution. Its per capita annual emissions are about 14 tons, compared to 12 in Germany, 11 in the UK and 5.5 in China (but 24 in the USA).

This document sets out some of the important climate change statistics concerning energy use in Russia.