In SUVs and on planes, richest 1% drive climate-heating emissions
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The research, conducted in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute looked at consumption of emissions of people belonging to different income groups from the
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Times of India
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In SUVs and on planes, richest 1% drive climate-heating emissions
Prone to frequent flying, a passion for SUVs and big spending, the richest 1% of the world's population produced twice as many planet-heating emissions as the poorest half of humanity over the last quarter-century, researchers said on Monday.
Prone to frequent flying, a passion for SUVs and big spending, the richest one per cent of the world's population produced twice as many planet-heating emissions as the poorest half of humanity over the last quarter-century, researchers said on Monday.