The world in 2023 increased its annual emissions by 398 million metric tons, but it was in three places: China, India and the skies. China’s fossil fuel emissions went up 458 million metric tons from last year, India’s went up 233 million metric tons and aviation emissions increased 145 million metric tons.

Outside of India and China, the rest of the world’s fossil fuel emissions went down by 419 million metric tons, led by Europe’s 205 million metric ton drop and a decrease of 154 million metric tons in the United States.

  • u_tamtam@programming.dev
    hexagon
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    10 months ago

    Meanwhile, we see no comparable progress in western countries

    lies and lies, see above.

    You do realize that you’re lying about something that’s well documented right?

    so we are back to your difficulty with keeping track of one thread, I see.
    Your initial assertion was that no comparable progress is being made in western countries to divert from fossil fuels. None of your links proves this. A single counter-argument suffices to prove you wrong, though but I give you several: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-electricity-source-stacked?country=OWID_WRLCHNINDUSAJPNDEUGBRBRAFRACANSWEZAFAUS

    If you can't digest the fact that China's current grid is everything but clean, I see no point in continuing the discussion. Also, it could be that you have another blindspot by conflating "electricity production" and "energy consumption" (FYI, China performs even worse there).