Claim: Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: As of 2009[update], French carbon dioxide emissions per capita were lower than that of China's.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Average carbon emissions within the haulage industry are falling—in the thirty-year period from 1977 to 2007, the carbon emissions associated with a 200-mile journey fell by 21 percent; NOx emissions are also down 87 percent, whereas journey times have fallen by around a third.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Within the G8 group of countries, it is most significant for the UK, France and Germany.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: On the other hand, annual per capita emissions of the EU-15 and the US are gradually decreasing over time.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Emissions in Russia and Ukraine have decreased fastest since 1990 due to economic restructuring in these countries.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In an EU wide 2018 assessment of progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions per capita, France and Sweden were the only two large industrialized nations within the EU to receive a positive rating, as every other country received a "poor" to "very poor" grade.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In 8 June 2015, several newspapers ran an article wrote that the leaders of the Group of Seven (or G7, consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) agreed to phase-out fossil fuel use by 2100, as part of the efforts to keep global temperature increase under 2 °C.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Institutional asset owners associations and think-tanks have also observed that the stated objectives of the Paris Agreement are implicitly "predicated upon an assumption – that member states of the United Nations, including high polluters such as China, the US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Indonesia and Mexico, which generate more than half the world's greenhouse gas emissions, will somehow drive down their carbon pollution voluntarily and assiduously without any binding enforcement mechanism to measure and control CO 2 emissions at any level from factory to state, and without any specific penalty gradation or fiscal pressure (for example a carbon tax) to discourage bad behaviour."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Stabilizing the world's climate will require high-income countries to reduce their emissions by 60–90% over 2006 levels by 2050 which should hold CO levels at 450–650 ppm from current levels of about 380 ppm.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Carbon dioxide concentrations dropped from 4,000 parts per million during the Cambrian periodabout 500 million years ago to as low as 180 parts per million during the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Since 1950, many countries have significantly reduced black carbon emissions, especially from fossil fuel sources, primarily to improve public health from improved air quality, and “technology exists for a drastic reduction of fossil fuel related BC” throughout the world.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The United States produced 5.14 billion metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2017, the lowest since the early 1990s, but still the second largest in the world after greenhouse gas emissions by China and amongst the worst countries by greenhouse gas emissions per person.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Collectively the group of industrialized countries committed to a Kyoto target, i.e., the Annex I countries excluding the US, have a target of reducing their GHG emissions by 4.2% on average for the period 2008–2012 relative to the base year, which in most cases is 1990.