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Country Environmental Profiles
Environmental data needs a story, a date, and a boundary. Explore 9 reviewed country profiles that connect emissions, energy, land, climate risk, and biodiversity without turning a global database into hundreds of thin pages.
Published profiles
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Each page has its own thesis, historical charts, cross-indicator interpretation, source ledger, and editorial review.
Brazil
A highly renewable power system contrasts with severe net forest loss, large agricultural emissions, and rising fossil CO₂ since 1990.
- CO₂ per person
- 2.28 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 87.3% (2024)
Canada
Hydro-rich electricity and falling per-person CO₂ coexist with very high energy use, fossil production, and rapidly changing northern risks.
- CO₂ per person
- 13.42 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 64.3% (2024)
China
The world's largest power system is adding renewables at extraordinary scale while coal, industrial demand, and ecological pressure remain decisive.
- CO₂ per person
- 8.66 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 33.7% (2024)
Germany
A deep emissions decline and renewable-led power mix coexist with remaining coal, gas, and broader land and biodiversity constraints.
- CO₂ per person
- 6.77 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 59.1% (2025)
India
Very low per-person energy use meets rapidly growing demand, coal-heavy electricity, major agricultural emissions, and high climate exposure.
- CO₂ per person
- 2.20 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 19.8% (2024)
Indonesia
Fast-rising energy demand and coal-heavy power sit beside globally important forests, biodiversity, and high modeled climate exposure.
- CO₂ per person
- 2.87 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 18.1% (2024)
Japan
Emissions and energy use are falling, but coal and gas still dominate power while nuclear recovery and renewable growth reshape the mix.
- CO₂ per person
- 7.77 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 22.9% (2024)
South Africa
Coal still defines electricity and emissions, while renewable growth, energy-access needs, biodiversity, and adaptation capacity pull policy together.
- CO₂ per person
- 6.87 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 12.5% (2024)
United States
Emissions have fallen from their mid-2000s peak, but absolute output, per-capita energy use, and agricultural emissions remain high.
- CO₂ per person
- 14.20 t/person (2024)
- Renewable electricity
- 25.6% (2025)
Comparable snapshot
The same questions, 9 country contexts
Observation years are shown in every cell. Do not mistake asynchronous releases for a single-year league table.
| Indicator | Brazil | Canada | China | Germany | India | Indonesia | Japan | South Africa | United States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO₂ per person | 2.28 t/personObserved 2024 | 13.42 t/personObserved 2024 | 8.66 t/personObserved 2024 | 6.77 t/personObserved 2024 | 2.20 t/personObserved 2024 | 2.87 t/personObserved 2024 | 7.77 t/personObserved 2024 | 6.87 t/personObserved 2024 | 14.20 t/personObserved 2024 |
| Renewable electricity | 87.3%Observed 2024 | 64.3%Observed 2024 | 33.7%Observed 2024 | 59.1%Observed 2025 | 19.8%Observed 2024 | 18.1%Observed 2024 | 22.9%Observed 2024 | 12.5%Observed 2024 | 25.6%Observed 2025 |
| Primary energy per person | 14,773 kWh/personObserved 2024 | 90,374 kWh/personObserved 2024 | 35,222 kWh/personObserved 2024 | 34,821 kWh/personObserved 2024 | 7,573 kWh/personObserved 2024 | 11,762 kWh/personObserved 2024 | 37,096 kWh/personObserved 2024 | 24,699 kWh/personObserved 2024 | 81,610 kWh/personObserved 2024 |
| Net forest-area change | −3,256,050 ha/yearObserved 2025 | −9,819 ha/yearObserved 2025 | +1,611,000 ha/yearObserved 2025 | +4,800 ha/yearObserved 2025 | +86,000 ha/yearObserved 2025 | +81,480 ha/yearObserved 2025 | −2,200 ha/yearObserved 2025 | +87,566 ha/yearObserved 2025 | −72,000 ha/yearObserved 2025 |
| Population | 211.1 millionObserved 2023 | 39.3 millionObserved 2023 | 1.423 billionObserved 2023 | 84.5 millionObserved 2023 | 1.438 billionObserved 2023 | 281.2 millionObserved 2023 | 124.4 millionObserved 2023 | 63.2 millionObserved 2023 | 343.5 millionObserved 2023 |
A connected reading
What each profile answers
No single indicator is allowed to stand in for the whole environmental record.
Emissions
Absolute and per-capita territorial CO₂, historical direction, peaks, and accounting boundaries.
Energy transition
The latest electricity recipe, renewable history, and the wider primary-energy context.
Land and food
Net forest-area change and agricultural greenhouse gases, with non-overlapping boundaries made explicit.
Risk and nature
Modeled climate exposure, vulnerability, readiness, extinction-risk direction, and KBA protection.
Why only these countries?
Publication is an editorial decision
A data API can return hundreds of country names in seconds. It cannot decide whether the sources are reusable, whether two indicators share a boundary, or what the numbers mean in a specific country. 24Earth publishes a route only after the data, original summary, charts, interpretation, limitations, and unique insights are reviewed.
Source preview
Open where possible, cautious where necessary
Snapshot 2026.07, retrieved 14 July 2026.
No IEA dataset is redistributed. Energy use comes from U.S. EIA public-domain data; modern electricity rows use Ember. Biodiversity aggregates are attributed for display but excluded from 24Earth downloads while original reuse rights are reviewed.
