Too good to be true The UK climate change record
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
A report by Oxford academic Dieter Helm and colleagues shows that although it appears that the UK has reduced its CO2 emissions this is something of an illusion. The reason for the reported drop is the ‘dash to gas’, and the export of manufacturing to China. If our consumption is actually taken account of, including the embodied energy in products we import, and our use of aviation and shipping, then our actual climate change contribution may have increased by as much as 19% since 1990.
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