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Confronting Carbon Inequality report

October 7 , 2020 1510 days 1111 0
  • The Oxfam International and the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) has released a report titled “Confronting Carbon Inequality”.

Data Analysis from 1990 to 2015

  • The richest 1% of humanity accounted for 15% of cumulative emissions, while the poorest 50% accounted for only 7%.
  • The richest 10% depleted the global carbon budget by 31% and the poorest 50% used only 4% of the carbon budget.
  • A carbon budget is a cumulative amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions permitted over a period of time to keep within a certain temperature threshold.
  • While the richest 10% accounted for 46% of emissions growth, the poorest 50% accounted for only 6%.

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