2010 In Green Numbers

Happy New Year! With the end of the holiday period, normal blogging will resume next week. In the meantime, here's a pick of some of the 'green numbers' from last year:

500GW

- power generated by renewables in China by 2020

2,509 square miles

- area of Amazon rainforest deforested last year, the lowest level ever recorded

0.08 - 0.16° C

- increase in global temperature over the last decade

$8.2 billion

- investment in offshore windfarms by South Korea

95%

- proportion of Venezuela's economy that relies on oil

2,000%

- increase in Rhino poaching in last 3 years

$72 billion

- investment by China in clean technology since 2000, $5 billion more than the US

£13 billion

- amount of funding that RBS has secured for climate-polluting companies in the last two years

45%

- proportion of Portugal's electricity which will come from renewable sources this year

$1 billion

- profit made by Goldman Sachs by betting on the price of food

8 years

- how long Britain has left before all it's landfill sites are full

2024

- date by which "dirty" coal plants throughout Europe must close under a new agreement

36 hours

- time it took for the Scottish Boiler Scrappage Scheme to run out of money

1,252

- majority of Caroline Lucas, the first ever Green Party MP

75 feet

- size of a tsunami wave on a lake in Peru caused by a glacier breaking

253 million tonnes

- CO2 emissions produced by importing goods into the UK

42%

- increase in the price of genetically modified Monsanto soybeans in one year