Britain’s (sometimes) falling emissions

When the Conservative government was junking their own environmental policies a few weeks ago, they offered an unusual reason why: we’re great at this stuff. Probably the best in the world, according to the Prime Minister. Since we are, in his words, “so far ahead of every other country in the world,” the best thing to do is take our foot off the accelerator and coast for a while.

He then went on to delay targets on electric cars, electric heating and insulation. A simple look at the trends ...