The Great British Insulation scheme

Must be from all the extra laundry they have to do. Money laundering   

But the list indicates obvious situation re collective benefits taken from/incurred at key geographic locations that aren't necessarily a function of governmental decision making (or local resident choice) which other regions are happy to benefit from eg. cruise ships, specific ore mining, oil industry etc. Begging the question of how far to take the "beneficiary pays" approach where it can be easily identified to incentivise reduction (look at how sensitive the British public were to the 5p compulsory plastic bag charge). 

Anyway, very interesting and uncomfortable discussion - I was depressed enough age 12 learning about greenhouse gases, deforestation impacts etc and forecasts of how it would all end. Things have not exactly perked up since then. One related thing I never see enough discussion on is where responsibility lies for displacement of climate change refugees - everyone's been sticking their head in the sand for far too long about that. 

According to this ready-reckoner, we need in the region of 300 large mature trees (and probably 7 acres?) to offset the carbon used in jetting to the other side of the world and back.  

I could maybe make it to the Isle of Wight. 

And the cumulative figures for shipping and for aviation each appear as an entry under the "country" heading in this table.  Aviation is the entry immediately below Canada.  second entry down.