Beware the fumes from scary windmills!
The Kyoto Protocol was the first serious effort to not only acknowledging a role of humans in global warming, but to also implement measures to reducing this impact caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, carbon emissions have been rising constantly, largely fuelled by considerable economic growth.
With 435 MtCO2, gas flaring was a minor source of carbon emissions in 2020. Gas flaring is the combustion of vented natural gas and the venting of CO2 in the oil and gas industry converting methane into carbon dioxide.
Most emissions from gas flaring in 2020 were produced in the United States of America (85 MtCO2), followed by Iran (24 MtCO2) and Russia (20 MtCO2). Iraq, Venezuela, Australia, Brasil, Canada, Nigeria and Kazakhstan complete the top 10.
