If you count how pollution is consumed (where the product that created the pollution are consumed) instead of where is produced, the United States and Europe are still way on the top polluters.
When you adjust for trade it still would be China, USA and then EU in terms of total emissions. In terms of per capita the US leads, but by now I am not sure if China or the EU has higher emissions. Europe is obviously worse though, as Russia is a massive polluter.
If you count how pollution is consumed (where the product that created the pollution are consumed) instead of where is produced, the United States and Europe are still way on the top polluters.
When you adjust for trade it still would be China, USA and then EU in terms of total emissions. In terms of per capita the US leads, but by now I am not sure if China or the EU has higher emissions. Europe is obviously worse though, as Russia is a massive polluter.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions?tab=table&time=earliest..2021
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita?tab=chart&country=CHN~OWID_EU27
Can we stop counting Russia as part of Europe? The European continent is very arbitrary anyway.
As others have mentioned, this doesn’t actually change much. Something near 90% of Chinese emissions are to support Chinese consumption