Japan, where a tsunami led to the closure of all the country's nuclear plants, is running far ahead of its emissions targets.
Power companies have been shutting down old coal-burning plants ahead of tougher emissions regulations, with 4.7 gigawatts of coal capacity retired in 2013, following 10.3 GW retired in 2012.
To date, the country has largely managed to keep ahead of its emissions targets by planting forests that act as carbon 'sinks', but in the absence of other long-term changes to the emissions landscape, this approach won't be sustainable for much longer.
Almost every trucking fleet that needed new vehicles, including Waste Management and UPS, bought them in 2006, ahead of the 2007 emission standards, which added $7,000 to the average $100,000 truck.
The latest reports, published last year and embraced by all major nations and scientific academies, concluded that most warming since 1950 has been caused by humans and that centuries of rising temperatures and seas and ecological disruption lay ahead if emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide were not curbed.
If everything is bigger in Texas, with only 85 stations in the pipeline, the Lone Star state will have to stay charged up if they want to stay ahead of the no-emissions pack.
The estimates published in Nature are also well ahead of the peak emissions targets set by countries participating in the Paris talks.
Hopes for any ambitious agreement at the Warsaw UN summit are low, but negotiators do expect a timeline for national emission pledges to be agreed ahead of a scheduled global emission agreement in 2015.
In fact, that system is widely considered a success by both industry and environmental advocacy groups, reducing the overall level of emissions ahead of schedule at a fraction of the costs estimated when the proposal was passed.
The most pressing, if hardest to deliver, is to secure agreement on curbing carbon emissions, ahead of next year's Copenhagen world summit.
Miliband was on the Today programme to discuss his call for legally binding targets to eradicate carbon emissions ahead of the climate change conference starting in Paris next week.
