Cuba
Population: 11,361,547
GDP: $108.2 billion (2008 est.)
Total Area: 110,860 sq km
Annual carbon emissions per capita: 2.52
Annual carbon emissions as percent of world's total: .0981%
“In 2008 Cuba was devastated by three full force hurricanes that caused some $10 billion in damage, including 400,000 homes destroyed and widespread crop damage. Cubans link the growing destructive power and frequency of the hurricanes with global climate change. […]
Remarkably, in 2006 the World Wildlife Federation rated Cuba as the only country that combined high human development standards as defined by high literacy and health indexes with a low ecological footprint including electricity consumed and carbon dioxide emitted per capita.” John Bachtell, People's Weekly World Newspaper, 09/03/09
