For sure, I’ve seen metrics before where they account for total cost of emissions based on consumption. I do think that’s a more useful metric overall because at the end of the day it doesn’t matter where emissions happen, the demand for goods is what’s driving the emissions. So, if we want to reduce emissions meaningfully, we need to cut consumption. Focusing on domestic emissions also allows for games such as one Europe is playing where they’re just outsourcing all their industry and then claiming to have cut emissions.
Is there a source that accounts for this? Because IMO the data is useless unless this is factored in.
Also it’s nuts that Canada is able to sneak in here. I’m guessing they rely too much on fossil fuels for energy is my guess.
For sure, I’ve seen metrics before where they account for total cost of emissions based on consumption. I do think that’s a more useful metric overall because at the end of the day it doesn’t matter where emissions happen, the demand for goods is what’s driving the emissions. So, if we want to reduce emissions meaningfully, we need to cut consumption. Focusing on domestic emissions also allows for games such as one Europe is playing where they’re just outsourcing all their industry and then claiming to have cut emissions.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita?time=latest
same source actually
Thanks