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The claim

"We have cut our greenhouse-gas emissions by 44% in the last 30 years while expanding our GDP by 78%"

Original publisher’s rating

He's right about the general trends but his figures are a bit out of date and do not reflect the extraordinary impact of the pandemic.

Reviewed by BBC Reality Check ↗ ·

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Sources and attribution

    Original review: BBC Reality Check. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms.

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