Abstract:Based on a publically available and widely used commercial country risk indicator, this article shows that greenhouse gas emissions other than land-use change related largely arise in countries which belong to the group of lower commercial investment risk, i.e. which are attractive to external investors. The same correlation is found between GDP of a country and commercial investment risk. Nevertheless, the pattern for population is less clear. The 20 largest emitters out of the lower-risk group of countries c… Show more
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