in addition it is highly likely that such production most of which was moved to emerging economies is carried out with lower energy efficiency and higher emission intensities thus the net result of the commendable united kingdom climate policy was quite possibly an overall increase in greenhouse gas emissions worldwide the opposite of the objective intended this example highlights the importance of global coordination and the need for reality checks of measures from a systems and global perspective one phenomenon to consider in this regard is the rebound effect the jevons paradox that is the increased energy use resulting from increased energy efficiency