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> EU Europe, not the EU From a ballpark look, your numbers look to be production-based accounting. If you look at Switzerland with consumption-based accountin
by hobofan 5y ago
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Europe, not the EU
From a ballpark look, your numbers look to be production-based accounting. If you look at Switzerland with consumption-based accounting[0], it looks pretty bad with higher per-capita emissions, and an upward trend while other comparably rich European countries have a downward trend.
[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/switzerland#consumption-based-accounting-how-do-emissions-compare-when-we-adjust-for-trade https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/switzerland#consumpti...
- belorn 5y agoIf a country focus on reducing emissions from their industry, for whom does that improvement benefit? The producer or the importer? As an example, in north of Sweden there is a lot of focus on creating green steel, most which will be exported. With consumption-based accounting, all that investment will have close to zero impact on the Swedish efforts to reduce CO2, as otherwise we would have double accounting. Consumption-based accounting has it uses but one need to be very careful in interpreting them. A country that has a lot of coal power plants should not be seen as decreasing their pollution if they suddenly start to export most of it. Some blame should be put at the consumer end, but the primary focus must sit on those who actually pollute the environment.