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> This is cause for celebration, but it shouldn’t hide the reality that with more than 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries. The country has significant agriculture or industry can justify such a highly polluting regime.

France has been proving for years how to decarbonize fast:

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?y...

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?y...



Possibly it's just on mobile, but the French graph seems to be on a completely different scale to the other two. Their agricultural emissions are higher than the UK for example, but at least for me that is far from obvious from the graphs.




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