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> A large and growing group of mostly rich countries has severed the link between economic growth and rising emissions of greenhouse gases so they outsourced p
by perfunctory 4y ago
> A large and growing group of mostly rich countries has severed the link between economic growth and rising emissions of greenhouse gases
so they outsourced production to the poor countries.
- mpweiher 4y agoFrom TFA: "Strikingly, consumption emissions, which include a measure of the carbon embedded in imports, have fallen by 15% over the same period."
- h0l0cube 4y agoAlso, here's a graph from Our World In Data using consumption-based accounting for CO2 emissions. Note that US, Europe, and even India are declining in consumption (and China seems to be plateauing) https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&country=CHN~USA~OWID_WRL~Europe~IND&Gas=CO%E2%82%82&Accounting=Consumption-based&Fuel+or+Land+Use+Change=All+fossil+emissions&Count=Per+capita https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&country=...
- nopenopenopeno 4y agoIn other words, China increased its nuclear power production
- h0l0cube 4y agoConsumption-based accounting shows across-the-board drop in the rate of CO2 emissions (for every continent [0]). Consumption-based accounting is, to quote OWID: > production-based emissions minus emissions embedded in exports, plus emissions embedded in imports [0] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&country=Asia+%28excl.+China+and+India%29~Africa~Europe~USA~CHN~IND&Gas=CO%E2%82%82&Accounting=Consumption-based&Fuel+or+Land+Use+Change=All+fossil+emissions&Count=Per+capita https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&country=...
- pfdietz 4y agoChina has been increasing its wind+solar generation even more (in absolute terms): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China#/media/File:China-electricity-prod-source-stacked.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China#/m...
- Retric 4y agoChina gets dramatically more power from Hydro or wind than nuclear, even solar is about to pass nuclear. 2020 ultra low carbon sources GWh: Hydro: 1,355,200, Wind: 466,500, Nuclear: 366,200, Solar: 261,100 That’s an increase from 2019 of Wind: 15.1%, Solar: 16.6%, Hydro: 4.1%, Nuclear: 5% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China Coal is still king, but it fell from 81% of total electricity in 2007 down to 62% in 2020 mostly due to renewables not nuclear.
- realusername 4y agoChina is increasing everything right now. Coal, solar, wind, nuclear and others. They haven't started their transition yet.
- andrepd 4y agoThe USA still has 45x the emissions per capita of Nigeria, to give a sense of scale.
- mlindner 4y agoNo one said there isn't more work to do, but continuing to grow without growing emissions (or even better, also reducing emissions) is the point.
- querez 4y agoIt seems like you didn't read the article thoroughly. Why the cheapshot remark?
- randomsearch 4y ago> so they outsourced production to the poor countries. You can't outsource domestic transport and, for the moment, most electricity generation.
- eunos 4y agoIndustry and Manufacturing, especially those arent high end products contribute a lot to pollution.