This is an interesting graph. Emission intensity or what is a country doing to mitigate it's emissions.

 The graph...shows emissions intensity for the top 10 emitters’ whole economies and energy sectors. For the energy sector, the world average is 372 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) per Million $GDP, but intensities vary across countries. Seven of the top 10 emitters actually have a below average emissions intensity; Russia, China and Canada are above the world average. These differences result from varying emissions levels and size of economy, but are also dependent on factors such as a country’s energy mix the carbon intensity of sectors like electricity and heat generation, manufacturing, and transportation.

While many countries focus their de-carbonization plans on energy-related emissions, high emissions intensity could actually result from emissions from other sectors. For example, with emissions from deforestation and land-use change taken into account, Indonesia becomes the most intensive emitter.

Said differently, when Indonesians have a GDP of deforestation rather than tourism, their emission intensity changes.

June 30, 2014

By Ariana Alisjahbana, Fred Stolle and Belinda Margono

New analysis published (click here) in Nature Climate Change shows that Indonesia is losing primary forest at a staggering rate. The country now has the highest rate of loss in tropical primary forests in the world, overtaking Brazil. Primary tropical forests are the most carbon- and biodiversity-rich type of forest ecosystem....

The same phenomena exist with iceland and it's aluminum smelters. Iceland is geothermal. 100 percent geothermal, but, in contract to the zero or negative GHG emissions they have smelters polluting the air and ground. While other countries would heavy regulate the smelters and end their GHG pollution, Iceland has balanced their negative emissions with emitter industries.

There are three aluminum smelters in Iceland, (click here) in Reyðarfjörður, East Iceland, owned by Alcoa, on Grundartangi near Akranes, West Iceland, owned by Norðurál Century Aluminum and in Straumsvík near Hafnarfjörður, Southwest Iceland, owned by Rio Tinto Alcan Iceland....

The jump in emissions in 2008 was the opening of the Alcoa smelter in Iceland.

In Denmark, (click here) Finland and Sweden, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by between 22 and 25 per cent between 1990 and 2015, but emissions have increased in Norway and Iceland. Iceland has had the highest increase in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990, an increase of almost 25 per cent.

In both the Nordic countries and the EU, the energy sector (including the transport sector) accounts for the highest share of emissions of greenhouse gases. The exception being Iceland, where the largest share of emissions stems from industrial processes....