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What's the reporting on how much of advanced economies emissions have been exported to elsewhere in the world edit: > lower emissions per capita now than they
by wahnfrieden 3y ago
What's the reporting on how much of advanced economies emissions have been exported to elsewhere in the world
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> lower emissions per capita now than they did at the beginning of the 21st century
Given the US for instance has grown by ~70 million people since the start of the 21st century, does this per capita reporting obfuscate a growing net impact?
- philipkglass 3y agoOur World In Data has a good collection of data sets and explanations for emissions adjusted by import/export. Here are a couple of them: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit... As expected, a "consumption based" approach to measuring CO2 shows advanced economies with higher emissions than otherwise reported and big manufacturing exporters like China with lower emissions. The good news is that advanced economies are still making real progress: they have lower emissions per capita now than they did at the beginning of the 21st century, even after adjusting numbers for offshored manufacturing. EDIT: on an absolute (not just per-capita) basis, the US has also reduced its consumption based CO2 emissions in the 21st century: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions?tab=chart&country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions... It peaked in 2005 and has been below the year 2000 emissions level every year since 2009.
- copx 3y agoGood Point. It is easy to look green on paper if you outsource your industry to China.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoOne of the most pervasively common tricks in greenwashing ...