"The once-rigid link between economic growth and carbon emissions is breaking across the vast majority of the world, according to a recently released study.

Countries representing 92% of the global economy have now decoupled consumption-based carbon emissions and GDP expansion, according to the report by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).

Using the latest Global Carbon Budget data, it finds that decoupling is now the norm across advanced economies, with 46% of global GDP in countries that have expanded their economies while cutting emissions, including Brazil, Colombia and Egypt. The most pronounced decouplings occurred in the UK, Norway and Switzerland".

The shift away from fossil fuels, the main contributors to carbon emissions, is becoming the norm.