In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions
How much of this drop is due to the US essentially &quot;exporting&quot; it&#x27;s emissions?<p>The underlying data is specifically for &quot;emissions from energy&quot;.  The emissions created during the production of goods imported into the US are not captured here.  Manufacturing that has been off-shored would look like a net positive in US emissions, but could actually result in higher world-wide emissions.<p>A better view would be “consumption-based emission inventories”<p>See section III.5 here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...</a><p>&quot;... if we switched to a consumption-based reporting system (which corrects for this trade), in 2014 the annual CO2 emissions of many European economies would increase by more than 30% (the UK by 38%; Sweden by 66%; and Belgium&#x27;s emissions would nearly double); and the USA&#x27;s emissions would increase by 7%. On the other hand, China&#x27;s emissions would decrease by 13%; India&#x27;s by 9%; Russia&#x27;s by 14% and South Africa by 29%.&quot;