The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition by Peadar Kirby & Tadhg O’Mahony

Author:Peadar Kirby & Tadhg O’Mahony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The ‘Developed World’: The EU, the US and Japan

This group has for long been the source of the highest emissions per capita (Table 6.1), and therefore been faced with the initial challenges of how to reduce emissions, but each has approached the problem very differently. Table 6.1 offers some selected social, environmental and economic indicators of how well they are succeeding in combining development with sustainability for the developed alongside the ‘emerging market’ countries. The Ecological Footprint (EF) is increasingly used as a measure of society’s pressures on the global ecosystem . 2 Table 6.1Selected development indicators

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