2009Nov17: CO2 emissions produced in the UK, fell by 5% between 1992 and 2004, while CO2 emissions from goods and services consumed in the UK increased by 12% between 1992 and 2004, according to the Global Carbon Project. “The developed world has exported to the developing world the emissions it would have produced had it met its growing appetite for consumer goods itself for the last two decades,” said CSIRO’s John Finnegan (BBC).
Reference: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8364926.stm
Read the Global Carbon Project’s 2008 Carbon Budget report – released 2009Nov17 http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/index.htm
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