What It Will Take for Rich Countries to Reach Net Zero: You
EVs have been on dealership floors for two decades, but so far make up 5% of cars on UK roads, far short of the 80% share they need to reach by 2040 to keep the country within its carbon budget.
Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/BloombergIf you live in the UK, your dishwasher and fridge’s carbon footprint has shrunk by a lot, largely because the government and companies have spent billions of pounds to install wind and solar power. Over the past 35 years, that switch has helped cut emissions from electricity generation by 80%.
Pollution from your car and your boiler has fallen too — but not by nearly as much, unless you have also ditched your fossil-fuel burning technology in favor of cleaner alternatives. Overall, emissions from homes and cars dropped by a third and a sixth since 1990, respectively.