GoKawiilData shows US economic growth has decoupled from carbon emissions since 2008
New analysis argues that the 2008 financial crisis marked a turning point in the US's relationship between economic growth and fossil fuel consumption, echoing a pattern earlier seen in Sweden. Since 1996 Sweden's carbon emissions have fallen by a third from their peak even as its GDP more than doubled, demonstrating that growth and emissions can be 'decoupled' over decades. The analysis cites this long-running Swedish trend as evidence that similar decoupling has since taken hold in the US economy.