A lot of Iceland's CO2 emissions seem to be from tourism and metal production for export, particularly aluminium. It obviously doesn't make too much sense to th

A lot of Iceland's CO2 emissions seem to be from tourism and metal production for export, particularly aluminium. It obviously doesn't make too much sense to think about this in per-capita terms since they're a tiny country population-wise and there's not really much relationship between their population and the amount of energy used for those things. Also, a large part of the reason that Iceland has so much aluminium smelting is that they have a lot of cheap, low-CO2 power that makes it both more viable and less polluting to do it there than elsewhere. (By comparison, China also has a lot of aluminium smelting these days, but it's so inefficient and high-CO2 compared to the alternatives that it shouldn't be viable - the general reckoning is that it's heavilty subsidised by the government there.)