US carbon emissions per capita: a 20-year trend
US CO₂ per capita peaked in 2005 at 20.8 tons CO₂e and has since fallen to 15.5 tons CO₂e in 2022 — a 24% reduction. That decline is real, but the US still emits more than twice the global average per person. This post unpacks what drove the trend, what didn’t, and what the data […]