Per Capita Emissions: 0.6 tons
Bangladesh Average: 0.4 tons
Population: 12.6 million
Dhaka has low emissions per person because people are still relatively poor. As many as one quarter of Dhaka’s residents live in crowded slums, according to the World Bank. Consequently they don’t use much electricity and don’t use private vehicles but public transport instead.
“It is the world’s wealthiest cities and their wealthiest inhabitants that cause unsustainable levels of greenhouse gas emissions, not cities in general,” says Dr David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) which has published a report comparing the per capita emissions of 100 cities.
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