> Most of the Western world isn't on target despite having lower goals than China. This isn’t really fair to say. The „Paris targets“ are just global temperatu

> Most of the Western world isn't on target despite having lower goals than China. This isn’t really fair to say. The „Paris targets“ are just global temperature goals, the actual emission targets were nationally (i.e. individually) chosen afterwards and very different, as well as being defined as „emission reductions per unit of GDP“ for developing countries while the US‘ was absolute. As a result, China‘s emissions will peak somewhere around 2030 while the US has to reduce emissions dramatically till then. Here‘s a visualization: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-region https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...