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    L’intensità delle emissioni di gas serra nell’UE è diminuita del 32% dal 2013 al 2023

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    1. Scary_Woodpecker_110 on

      Nice information, but for the climate, only absolute emissions in tonnes CO2 matter.

    2. yyytobyyy on

      These statistics have one drawback in the fact that countries with the high emissions can perform “better” with the countries that already have low emissions.

      All the dark countries rely heavily on coal for their energy while e.g Norway is already getting all of their electricity from hydro, so lowering the already low emissions for another 30% is very hard.

    3. Eric1491625 on

      I get why some people like the logic given for using GDP as a base, but I hate the carbon per GDP statistic. It is deeply flawed.

      **Private jet is the cleanest form of transportation** – if this statistic is to be believed. Since a private jet flight typically costs 20x of an economy ticket (therefore producing 20x the GDP) but only 10x the emissions, it’s twice as “clean”.

      **Louis Vuitton burning its unsold bags is “good” for the environment**, as it is needed to enforce the artificial scarcity to maintain the high price (and therefore higher GDP). Louis Vuitton’s Emissions per GDP would be “greener” if it burnt the bags, than if it handed them out to the poor for free.

      You should get the point by now.

      Absolute or per capita values are meaningful depending on what you want to measure. Either that or specific measures like energy mix, deforestation, etc. 

      But not the statistic of emissions per GDP. It is useless as a descriptive statistic (it will always tell us that rich people good and poor people bad, since rich people usually pollute 20x as much but with 200x the wealth) and it is useless as a prescriptive statistic (it will tell society to cut cheap essnetials for the poor and focus on luxuries). 

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