Did you know?

The UK is home to approximately 68 million people, who, in 2020, collectively emitted 326 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, a 10.7% reduction since 2019. The UK has achieved greater CO2 emission reductions than many other countries worldwide, with the average UK person responsible for 11.2 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, just above the global average. This includes emissions from goods and services consumed within the UK but manufactured outside. We have been very successful in externalising a lot of our carbon emissions. You will often find UK carbon emission calculations that conveniently omit imports. This is false accounting and deeply misleading.

We need to reduce our average emission by 50% and all of the heavy lifting needs to be done by those in the top half of the economic bracket. There is an almost universal connection between wealth and carbon emissions. More and more!

Statistics according to: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-is-now-halfway-to-meeting-its-net-zero-emissions-target

Carbon Brief is well worth reading. Its estimate of 4.5 tonnes is on the low side and excludes aviation, shipping and the embedded carbon in imports (as do most calculations).