‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter?

Past and present leaders of wealthy nations such as UK and Germany have argued their actions are insignificant On first hearing, it is a position that sounds reasonable. “When our share of global emissions is less than 1%,” Rishi Sunak argued when he was the UK prime minister in 2023, “how can i...

Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/30/emissions-do-smaller-countries-climate-efforts-matter)