Relative change of per capita CO2 emissions since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement for the 10 most populous EU-countries (+UK). Source: ourworldindata.org (see comments)
Relative change of per capita CO2 emissions since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement for the 10 most populous EU-countries (+UK). Source: ourworldindata.org (see comments)
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[source](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&stackMode=relative&time=2015..2020&country=GBR~DEU~FRA~GRC~NLD~POL~ESP~BEL~ITA~ROU)
This chart ends in 2020 when there was historically low emissions because of covid lockdowns.
Just wait till the 2021 data is added…
I wonder how this data is calculated, German electricity for instance emits about 8x more CO2 than France.
Looks like the Energiewende is working. Good to see.
Covid works
One of the few times we’re at the bottom and I’m happy about it.
Romania did a big push before 2015, and we are at a low count anyway. One of the lowest in Europe, actually. It’s getting harder and harder when you are already low. We are currently at about 60% low carbon electricity. Getting to 80 will be a challenge. We also improved a lot of building insulations.
Isn’t eurostat data more reliable?
Quite good for France who had relatively low emisson of CO2/inhabitants and still manage to reduce as much as its neighbours