Dewi Le BarsMay 14, 2023
This is a nice race to follow: the evolution of carbon intensity of electricity.
Before 2010 Denmark and the Netherlands were still higher than world average. Then from 2010 Denmark got serious about decarbonising. In the Netherlands we waited until 2018 but we are finally reducing it quickly!
In 2022 it was lower than Germany for the first time. Germany's carbon intensity increased in the last 2 years.
Still a long way to go to reach France and Sweden at the bottom.
Final goal 0!
Show threadDewi Le BarsMay 14, 2023
CO2 emissions per person in the world peaked in 2012 and are rather stable since then.
In the EU it is decreasing but it is still higher than the world average.
The fact that the EU uses less than half CO2 per person than the US is actually a good example for me that you can have a better quality of life and less CO2.
Show threadPeter Drake HAS MOVEDMay 14, 2023

@DewiLeBars Interesting!

Why the sudden drop for the US in the very late 1970s? Oil crisis? Carter policies?

Why did the world's carbon intensity stop increasing so rapidly around the same time?

Why the drop for the US around 2005?

Why the big increase in the EU after 2000? Entry of new, more coal-intensive countries?

Show threadDewi Le Bars
@peterdrake many difficult questions 😅
The oil crisis probably played a role, is it also the time coal started to be used less?
Then the later drop around 2005 might be related to the subprime crisis that was 2007.
The EU carbon intensity didn’t increase after 2000 it continues to go down but China passes the EU then.
May 14, 2023 at 6:30pmWeb
Show threadPeter Drake HAS MOVEDMay 14, 2023
@DewiLeBars Oh, sorry, I was looking at the China line, not EU. That's the one that goes up sharply in the 2000s.