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World's richest 1% emitting enough carbon to cause heat-related deaths for 1.3 million people, report finds
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/worlds-richest-carbon-emissions-climate-change-report/
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The report, by The Guardian, the international charity Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute, found that climate change and “extreme inequality” have become “interlaced, fused together and driving one another.”
Researchers found that of all the carbon emissions in the world in 2019, 16% was produced by the top 1% wealthiest people worldwide — a group that includes billionaires, millionaires and those who earn more than $140,000 a year.
The report also highlighted that just 12 of the world’s richest billionaires have contributed nearly 17 million tonnes of emissions from their homes, transportation, yachts and investments — an amount it said was more than 4 1/2 coal power plants over the course of a year.
He was followed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and luxury retail magnate Bernard Arnault.
Oregon State University ecology professor William Ripple, who is also the director of the Alliance of World Scientists, told CBS News that the report’s methodology and findings are “broadly consistent with some recent peer-reviewed scientific literature on this topic.”
The Guardian and Oxfam report called for a number of steps to help humanity “break free from the climate and inequality trap,” including a transition to renewable energy sources.
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