World's richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report

These are data from the organization Oxfam, days before the UN conference on climate change. The poorest populations are the main victims of extreme events.

Carbon emissions from richest 1% pose fatal threat to humanity : Peoples Dispatch

The wealthiest 1% of the world’s population has been responsible for as many carbon emissions as the poorest two-thirds of humanity, a new report by Oxfam International has found.  The top 1%, or 77 million people out of over eight billion, accounted for 16% of the world’s total planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions in 2019. In contrast, it would take someone from the bottom 99% 1,500 years to produce the amount of emissions that the world’s r…

World’s Richest 1 Percent Largely Responsible for Global Warming: Oxfam Report

Goats walk over a barren land near the Afghan border in Balochistan province, Pakistan. Credit: Matiullah Achakzai/ EPA The world’s wealthiest one percent are disproportionately contributing to the climate crisis, with their carbon emissions exceeding those of the poorest two-thirds of humanity, as revealed in a new report by Oxfam International released ahead of the UN climate summit in Dubai. The report, published on 20 November, highlights th…

INSEE warns about the methodology used in the overwhelming majority of studies, which leads to overestimating the carbon footprint of the most wealthy categories.

Richest 1% Emit Same as 66% of World’s Poorest: Oxfam

The level of emission caused by the 1% super-rich in 2019 alone is enough to kill 1.3 million people due to heat.

Carbon Emissions From World’s Richest 1% Will Kill 1.3 Million People by 2030

The Occupy Wall Street movement ushered in a new paradigm in the way people talk about inequality, claiming the world’s wealthiest 1% enjoy political and economic privilege lacked by everyone else.