What you are referring to is production-based CO2 accounting, whereas we really should be taking consumption-based CO2 metric.
No doubt progress has been made, but it's a fraction of what it should be. Uk had a chance to invest in nuclear power and didn't, has poor quality housing / insulation resulting in a lot of unnecessary CO2 emissions and money wasted on heating, and has a stupid law that banned large (read: economical) wind turbines!
It's good in the environmental seance, but what I meant was:
in the 80's Uk had a chance to invest in nuclear to become like France, almost entirely nuclear-powered. Instead the skills needed to build nuclear power-plants have been lost, and now even replacing existing few reactors is a great challenge.
No doubt progress has been made, but it's a fraction of what it should be. Uk had a chance to invest in nuclear power and didn't, has poor quality housing / insulation resulting in a lot of unnecessary CO2 emissions and money wasted on heating, and has a stupid law that banned large (read: economical) wind turbines!