Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)
This analysis neglects the impact of moving heavy industry offshore -- Britain still benefits from the consumption of industrial products, historically some industrial products consumed domestically  may have been manufactured in Britain where CO2 emissions from manufacturing would be counted as British emissions. Now the same products are manufactured in China, perhaps with lower environmental regulation. Both countries share a single atmosphere & so in terms of global warming it is irrelevant in which country the emissions occur. If outsourcing manufacturing without reducing emissions makes British emissions look lower by some metric then that metric is not very useful for thinking about progress in dealing with climate change.<p>The economist podcast [1] touched on this topic recently during an interview with Prof Dieter Helm [2] who has a series of lectures & a new book about this.<p>[1] For the podcast, check out the last 9 minutes of <a href="https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/09/08/tech-wreck-the-stockmarket-hits-rough-water" rel="nofollow">https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/09/08/tech-wreck-the...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.dieterhelm.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dieterhelm.co.uk/</a>