Carbon dioxide emissions increased by 60% over a 25-year period. However, the richest 1% increased
In a report compiled by Oxfam and StockholmInstitute for the Environment, warns that rampant overconsumption and the rich world's addiction to high-carbon transportation are depleting the global carbon budget.
Globally, the richest 10% are people with incomes above approximately $35,000 (2.6 million) per year, and the richest 1% are people earning more than $100,000 (RUB 7.6 million).
The agency reminds that carbon dioxide emissionsaccumulate in the atmosphere, causing warming, and a temperature rise of more than 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels can wreak havoc on natural systems. This accumulation gives the world a limited carbon budget for how much carbon dioxide can be safely produced, which scientists warn will be depleted within a decade at the current rate.
If this process is not stopped, in the nextDecades of carbon emissions from the world's richest 10% will be enough to raise levels above the point that could cause temperatures to rise by 1.5 ° C, even if the rest of the world immediately reduces its emissions to zero.
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