Sounds like the same pattern as the USA. The non-scientific wing of the environmental movement gutted industries across the interior, and in the end all we did

Sounds like the same pattern as the USA. The non-scientific wing of the environmental movement gutted industries across the interior, and in the end all we did was move fossil fuel burning and pollution overseas in exchange for poverty and resentment. (In fact, we probably burn more carbon by manufacturing overseas and then burning a ton of bunker diesel to ship it here on container ships.) https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions As you can see these policies did nothing. Seems to be slowing a bit, probably due to technological improvement. In the end there is only one thing that will reduce CO2 emissions: technologies for generating energy from non-fossil sources that are competitive with fossil fuels. Solar and wind are getting there. If fossil fuels are still cheaper than other sources, then they will be burned somewhere and energy intensive industries will flock to wherever has the cheapest energy (and labor). The only way to stop this would be a global scale agreement to curtail fossil fuel use, and developing nations would never agree to this.