According to a report from the NGO, the 1% of the world's richest emit twice as much greenhouse gas as the poorest half of the population.
The 1% of the world's richest emit twice as much greenhouse gas as the poorest half of the population. This is the observation made in a report by Oxfam. The NGO focused on the period 1990-2015, 25 years for which global emissions of CO2 responsible for the warming of a planet that has already gained more than +1°C since the preindustrial era, increased by almost 60%.
According to his analysis, "the 1% richest of the population (approximately 63 million people) were responsible to them only 15% of cumulative emissions," and "two times more than the poorest half of the world's population". And the richest 10 per cent of the world's population (about 630 million people) were responsible for 52% of the CO2 emissions accumulated.
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[limited Offer] Special back to school. 1€ per month I subscribe"over The last 20-30 years, the climate crisis has intensified and the global carbon budget limited has been squandered in the service of an intensification of the consumption of a population that is affluent, and not for lifting people out of poverty," says Oxfam. And the groups who "suffer the most from this injustice are the least responsible for the climate crisis" : the poorest and future generations, " continues NGO.
"These figures are going against received ideas, and in particular that according to which the surge in emissions is due solely to China, to India and to the development of the middle classes", analysis from the MondeArmelle The Count, head of the climate issues for Oxfam France.
The reaction of the ex-UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon
Oxfam calls on governments around the world to rectify this by placing social justice and the fight against the climate at the heart of economic recovery plans in post-Covid. "It is clear that the model of economic growth carbon emitter, and is very unequal the last 20-30 years has not benefited the poorest half of humanity," said Tim Gore, an expert of the NGO. "It is a dichotomy that is false to suggest that we must choose between economic growth and the climate," he added.
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Date Of Update: 01 October 2020, 00:58
