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Last year grave forecasts from the UN and mass-protests across the globe – including a pink yacht parked outside our London office by Extinction Rebellion – inspired us to use Quorso to analyse global carbon emissions data and try to identify key opportunities for reducing damage.

At a regional analysis level, scaled per capita across the 161 countries we included, Asia has by far the greatest reduction gap to bring it in-line with median volumes (9,717 Mt). At a sector level, specifically within Europe, the biggest opportunity appears to be in Power Industry emissions across Russia, Germany and Poland (813 Mt combined).

Drilling down further, we found initial evidence for positive impact over time. The UK’s 2008 Climate Act, for example, has led to a 65 Mt reduction in emissions over and above what the rest of the Annex I industrialised countries have achieved since then.

Overall, Quorso calculated that if every country currently emitting more than average in any sector reduces its emissions to match the median per-capita performance of similar countries, global emissions of CO₂ could potentially be reduced by over 20%!