{"id":101503,"date":"2025-05-14T18:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101503\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:48:13","slug":"are-democratic-countries-like-the-uk-just-climate-hypocrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101503\/","title":{"rendered":"Are democratic countries like the UK just climate hypocrites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SEI_251255690.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2480280\" data-caption=\"Have democratic countries merely offshored their emissions to places like this steel plant in Benxi, China?\" data-credit=\"Jon Bower Pollution\/Alamy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Have democratic countries merely offshored their emissions to places like this steel plant in Benxi, China?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Jon Bower Pollution\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Since 1990, the UK has reduced its emissions by 53 per cent, making it one of the world leaders in climate action. It\u2019s not alone though \u2013 Sweden, France and Switzerland are just some of the countries that have also seen significant cuts. But have they really?<\/p>\n<p>These record emissions cuts have been delivered in a variety of ways, from deploying renewable energy to the power grid to insulating homes and encouraging the adoption of electric vehicles. But for some sectors,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have democratic countries merely offshored their emissions to places like this steel plant in Benxi, China? Jon Bower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,24825,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-101503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-carbon-emissions","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114507684572345766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}