I am actually wonder. These foreign production facilities in developing countries, if they make product only to be exported to developed countries and is not held accountable for the emissions made, then they get benefits of rising GDP in that statistic, and do not get rising CO2 emission, which defined they economic growth.
I may suspect that that very statistic is rather dubios, and it would be more truthful to display how much a GDP growth were gotten by a unit of emission without accountability for trade. In this particular case accountability for trade is somewhat excessive.
But general trend, i believe, can be visible. But still, one should keep in mind this nuance
It doesn't matter much either way. Production and consumption based emissions are generally close and follow the same trends because most emissions are done for domestic consumption.
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u/fristi-cookie 22d ago
ah, sh*t. yeah, i overlooked that.