News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electric vans.. Parent comment

Re:Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electr... by VBprogrammer on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:09PM (#21018251)
> Advanced economies have grown their GDPs, but have also reduced their emissions since about 1990.

Isn't there an element of offloading their emissions to the 'less advanced' economies who make all of the new energy efficient nuggets?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electr... by thinkcontext on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:51PM (#21018697)
Production of traded goods account for about 20% of GHG emissions. So, significant but not decisive.
[ Parent | on HN ]