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Germany and the U.K. have cut their climate pollution in half. Here’s how Canada stacks up (www.nationalobserver.com)
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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its not quite the same data, that's CO2 per person from energy and industry (excluding land use changes), the article was looking at CO2 equivalent of all GHGs. Still shows what I suspected, that France was lower overall but not going down as quickly as they are unable to get quick wins from decarbonising electricity.

Edit: actually scrap that I realised there was more data further down the page and it looks like when looking at total GHG emissions France is going down at about the same rate as Germany despite starting from a lower baseline. Viva la France! (though not as fast as the UK who have gone from per capital emissions equal to Germany in 1990 to being equal to France today)