In 2021, total GHG emissions (including indirect CO2 emissions and including emissions from Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF)) in the Netherlands amounted to 172 Tg CO2 eq. This is approximately 24.9 percent below the emissions in the base year 1990 (228.9 Tg CO2 eq.).
I’m curious about if the manufacturing industry has decreased since 1990.
Or in other words, how much of this is due to positive change and how much is grandstanding about outsourced pollution.
This is what I am wondering everytime I read such numbers. Reaching any kind of emission goals isn’t worth much, if we in return ship our trash somewhere else or buy more stuff from other countries that dont give a fuck.
Consumption based emissions have also fallen from 13t per capita in 1990 to 9t per capita in 2020.
Reminder: 2021 was not a normal year, due to the pandemic, and emissions have risen again afterwards, IIRC. The trendline is good, but comparing these specific years doesn’t paint the clearest picture.
Any time I see graphs or statistics which cut of at 2020 to 2021 I get the feeling that the trend is being misrepresented, maybe deliberately.
