Antigua and Barbuda

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Population: 82,343
GDP: $1.657 billion (2008 est.)
Total Area: 442 sq km
Annual carbon emissions per capita: 8.02 metric tons
Annual carbon emissions as percent of world's total: .0023%

Barbuda ’Likely To Sink’ By: Annabel Fuller on December 11th, 2008
“At the current rate of sea level rise, most of Barbuda will be submerged by the year 2060. This sombre conclusion, says Ambassador Diann Black-Layne, is based on projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report.”

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090922/tpl-environment-us-climate-islands-04b64de.html

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http://www.caribarena.com/environment/new-environment-articles/coral-bleaching-costal-erosion-why-care.html