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| Sat, 20th Mar 2021 18:50:00 |
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The UK’s pathway to net zero carbon emissions is about to get harder |
In 1990, as UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher was about to leave office, the economy was slipping into recession and construction workers on the Channel Tunnel had just reached the shores of France.
At the time, the country was emitting about 794 million metric tons of greenhouse gases per year. Thirty years later, emissions are less than half that level, according to a new analysis, putting the country well on its way to reaching its legally-binding target of net zero emissions by 2050.
The UK’s progress puts its well ahead of other major emitters with similar goals—Germany is 35% of the way there, and in the US emissions are about equal to where they were in 1990. China’s emissions aren’t likely to peak before 2030. In fact, the last time the UK’s emissions were this low was in 1879, when the county was at war in modern-day South Africa, based on an analysis by the UK climate policy analysis group Carbon Brief.
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