For economists there has always been a direct link between economic growth and rising energy consumption—the more energy a country can consume, the richer its population becomes.
A combination of offshore heavy energy intense industry & the replacing of coal with natural gas. What the U.K & The West for that matter have done is accounting game or carbon musical chairs-I may make this a title of a post-and it shows because the world carbon emission have continued to increase because developing countries energy consumption increases to fuel their economy which is export orient to Western consumers. So regardless of what the U.K. does it's imports only would more than make that up. Wake up people!
The whole EU seems to be sleepwalking right now.
A combination of offshore heavy energy intense industry & the replacing of coal with natural gas. What the U.K & The West for that matter have done is accounting game or carbon musical chairs-I may make this a title of a post-and it shows because the world carbon emission have continued to increase because developing countries energy consumption increases to fuel their economy which is export orient to Western consumers. So regardless of what the U.K. does it's imports only would more than make that up. Wake up people!