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54 per cent higher in 2019 than in 1990
Olivier, J. G. J., and Peters, J. A. H. W., Trends in Global CO2 and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 2020 Report, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, December 2020, https://www.pbl.nl/en/publications/trends-in-global-co2-and-total-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2020-report.the global economy increased by about 120 per cent
World Bank, ‘GDP (current US$)’, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD.80 per cent of the world’s energy in 2019 was from fossil fuels
International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2021, October 2021, https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2021.annual emissions produced by the UK fell by 44 per cent
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Affairs, ‘Final UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics: 1990 to 2020’, 1 February 2022, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/final-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-1990-to-2020.its economy grew by 78 per cent
Office for National Statistics, ‘Gross domestic product: chained volume measures: seasonally adjusted £m’, 12 May 2022, https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/abmi/pn2.the reduction would be much smaller (around 15 per cent)
Climate Change Committee, Progress in Reducing Emissions: 2021 Report to Parliament, June 2021, https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Progress-in-reducing-emissions-2021-Report-to-Parliament.pdf.