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1960

Global peak CO2 emissions per dollar of GDP: 0.55. In the US, it is 0.8, a national all-time high, and in Mao’s China and the Great Leap Forward, it is over 3.0, due to coal. The global index will then progressively decline to 0.4 at the beginning of the 21st century (the same value as in 1900).