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The people responsible for the carbon emissions are the end users, who are really Western consumers and governments (e.g. the US department of defence).
Well, obviously providers and consumers are not wholly separable. Of course 'Western' lifestyle expectations are much to blame, but manufacturers also manufacture 'needs' and hence demand. There's absolutely no doubt that car manufacturers have massively contributed to increasing demand for cars, for instance.
Equally obviously, ethical behaviour on the part of companies probably won't happen without ethical behaviour on the part of 'consumers' and vice versa. So, both 'sides' have to work together in (effectively) going back along the road that we have travelled, e.g. in transportation reducing the need (and desire) to travel (increasing both is a hallmark of hypermobile modernism), but the difficulty with placing the consumers (assuming we're not talking about large governmental agencies like the US Department of Defense) first in this is that each of them has very little power, and it's elected political power that needs to get the ball rolling.
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Oliver Schick
I wish people would stop saying this. The people responsible for the carbon emissions are the end users, who are really Western consumers and governments (e.g. the US department of defence).