The bar chart illustrates the amount of C02 emissions generated from energy production in five different countries, including China, India, Russia, Japan, and the US, between 2000 and 2010.
Overall, Japan witnessed a relatively stable trend in the level of CO2 emissions over the ten-years period, while the other four countries experienced significant growth. In addition, China was the largest contributor to CO2 emissions between 20050 and 2010.
In 2000, the USA generated around 6 GT of CO2 emission from energy production and still remains a relatively consistent increase of nearly 8 GT, whereas China witnessed a steady upward trend from 6 GT to the largest emitter around 80 GT in 2010. Additionally, the amount of emissions from energy production in India follow a similar pattern. Starting at the lowest point of exactly 2 GT, the figure of India experienced moderate growth and reached around 4 GT in the same year.
Regarding the remaining country, Russia produced about 2 GT CO2 emissions of energy production in the first year. Over the following 10 years, the figure went up slowly and ended up with around 2.5 GT in 2010. With Japan, the amount of emissions remained unchanged around 2 GT over past years, which is considerably a lowest level among the other four countries by the end of the period.
In summary, all countries except Japan underwent a significant transformation, with China showing the most dramatic increase, becoming the largest emitter by 2010.