Two years after President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement, the U.S. saw the greatest decline in carbon dioxide emissions on a country basis, according to the International Energy Agency’s report on global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019. Thanks to an exceptional decrease in emissions in advanced economies, global emissions finally flatlined after three years of increasing.

Spearheading that charge was the U.S., which decreased carbon dioxide emissions by a staggering 140 million tons, or 2.9%, thanks to vast increases of natural gas generation. Since our peak in 2000, the IEA reports that emissions are down 1 gigaton, “the largest absolute decline by any country over that period.”