Ten developing countries with falling CO2 emissions

In order to hold global warming to a safe temperature, global development needs to show two sustained trends. First, countries with high carbon emissions need to get them on a downward trajectory. And second, countries that are industrialising need to transition to cleaner forms of development and stop their emissions rising.

Britain is in that first category, and along with most of Europe, emissions have been falling – not fast enough, but going in the right direction. There are high income cou...