{"id":9992,"date":"2022-06-20T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/es\/?post_type=product&p=9992"},"modified":"2022-06-20T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T02:42:00","slug":"carbon-inequality-in-2030","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/es\/carbon-inequality-in-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon inequality in 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greenhouse gas emissions\u00a0from human activities strengthen the\u00a0greenhouse effect<\/a>, causing\u00a0climate change<\/a>. Most is\u00a0carbon dioxide<\/a>\u00a0from burning\u00a0fossil fuels<\/a>:\u00a0coal<\/a>,\u00a0oil<\/a>, and\u00a0natural gas<\/a>. The\u00a0largest emitters<\/a>\u00a0include\u00a0coal in China<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0large oil and gas companies<\/a>, many\u00a0state-owned by OPEC and Russia<\/a>. Human-caused emissions have increased\u00a0atmospheric carbon dioxide<\/a>\u00a0by about 50% over pre-industrial levels.\u00a0The world\u2019s richest 1% are set to have per capita consumption emissions in 2030 that are still 30 times higher than the global per capita level compatible with the 1.5\u2070C goal of the Paris Agreement, while the footprints of the poorest half of the world population are set to remain several times below that level. By 2030, the richest 1% are on course for an even greater share of total global emissions than when the Paris Agreement was signed. Tackling extreme inequality and targeting the excessive emissions linked to the consumption and investments of the world\u2019s richest people is vital to keeping the 1.5\u2070C Paris goal alive.<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION<\/h4>\n

The climate and inequality crises are closely interwoven. In 2020, Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) estimated that between the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 1990 and the 2015 Paris Agreement, the consumption of the world\u2019s richest 1% drove twice the carbon emissions of the poorest half of the global population combined.<\/p>\n

In that era of extreme carbon inequality in which the climate crisis accelerated, around a third of the global carbon budget for limiting global heating to the Paris Agreement\u2019s 1.5\u2070C goal was squandered just to expand the consumption of the richest 10% of the world population.<\/p>\n

Now, at COP26 in Glasgow, the world is facing a looming gap between the level of expected global emissions in 2030 \u2013 based on the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of emissions reductions made by countries under the Paris Agreement \u2013 and the level needed in 2030 to keep alive the chance of limiting global heating to 1.5\u2070C above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n

In this new briefing commissioned by Oxfam based on analysis by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and SEI, we provide estimates of the impact of the NDCs on the per capita consumption emissions of different global income groups in 2030 \u2013 revealing the stark inequality between the people whose carbon footprints are set to be compatible with the 1.5\u2070C Paris goal, and those whose are not. We estimate that:<\/p>\n

\u2022 People in the richest 1% of the global population are set to have per capita consumption emissions footprints in 2030 that are still 25% higher than in 1990, 16 times higher than the global average, and 30 times higher than the global per capita level compatible with the 1.5\u2070C goal, while the footprints of the poorest half of the global population are set to remain well below the 1.5\u2070C-compatible level.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The share of total global emissions associated with the consumption of the richest 1% is set to continue to grow, from 13% in 1990 to 15% in 2015 and 16% in 2030.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In 2015\u201330, the global \u2018middle classes\u20198 are on course for per capita emissions cuts that are closest to (though still far from) the global 1.5\u2070C-compatible per capita level \u2013 which, given this global income group saw the fastest emissions growth rates in 1990\u20132015, is a sign of the so-called \u2018Paris effect\u20199 in transforming the course of emissions trends.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The geography of global carbon inequality is set to change, with an increasing share of the emissions of the world\u2019s richest 1% linked to citizens in middle-income countries.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the national level in each of the major emitting countries, the richest 10% of citizens are set to have per capita emissions in 2030 that are substantially higher than the global average per capita level compatible with the 1.5\u2070C goal.<\/p>\n

Carbon inequality is extreme, both globally and within most countries. If the 1.5\u2070C goal is to be kept alive, then carbon emissions must be cut far faster than currently proposed. But critically, these efforts must go hand-in-hand with measures to cut pervasive inequality and ensure that the world\u2019s richest citizens \u2013 wherever they live \u2013 lead the way. Four of our key findings are further explored below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"