> Countries that are still building out their infrastructure should be expected to expend more CO2 per capita to catch up. (Modern equipment is more effecient,

> Countries that are still building out their infrastructure should be expected to expend more CO2 per capita to catch up. (Modern equipment is more effecient, but still). Well, the UAE is not exactly a "country that is still building", so your comment is very misleading. Nevertheless, we can also compare the "share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions" for UAE and USA. It's 0.3% and 24% respectively, and when prorated to the population, we get (0.3 / 10) / (24 / 330) = 0.4, so the UAE is cumulatively about 40% of the USA already, even though their development only started 50 years ago. And again, if you consider that out of the 10 millions living in the UAE, about 9 million are migrant workers, the vast majority living in dorms, the equation is clear and the UAE current lifestyle is totally unsustainable. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-cumulative-co2?time=latest&country=ARE~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-cumulative-co2?t...