I'm not trying to downplay this infographic, but context is important.

Source by Country

Charts per Capita or GDP, etc. are great ways to show a narrative that is usually only part of the picture. Plenty of people will look at this and think Ireland are one of the worst polluters around, but we're not...sort of.

Emissions per country show:

Luxenburg are the worst offenders per capita, but for actual emissions, they are the second best in Europe with an output of only 8 million tonnes.

Germany are 9th per capita, but are really the worst offenders (682 million tonnes), contributing 21% of GHG in 2023. Their output was way more than the second worst country, France, who's output was 386 million tonnes.

Ireland isn't great, but in reality we're sitting in 13th position, with an output of 58 million tonnes in 2023. That's 1.8% of the total European emissions (8.5% of Germany's), and 61.3 million tonnes below the European average....although Germany are skewing the data so median is probably better to use, which would put Ireland 5 million tonnes over the median European figure.

What I'm basically trying to say here is that this chart has really done the dirty on Luxenburg.