The richest 10 % in the world are responsible for two -thirds of global heating since 1990, which leads to drought and heat waves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study.
While researchers previously showed that high income groups emit large quantities that are not proportional to greenhouse gases, the latest scan is the first to try to determine how to translate inequality into climate collapse responsibility. It offers a strong argument for climate financing and wealth taxes by trying to provide the basis for proof of the number of people in the developed world-including more than 50 % of full-time employees in the UK-an increasing responsibility for climate disasters that affect people who cannot afford.
“Our study shows that severe climatic effects are not only the result of abstract global emissions; instead we can link them directly to our lifestyle and investment options, which in turn are related to wealth,” instead. Sarah Shongart, a climate modeling analyst and the main author of the study, said.
“We have found that the wealthy gates play a major role in leading the maximum climate, providing strong support for climate policies aimed at reducing their emissions.”
It has been clear that wealthy individuals, through their consumption and investments, create more carbon emissions, while poor countries located near the equator bear the resulting severe weather and high temperatures.
The new research tries to determine the amount of inequality in emissions in climate collapse. To produce their analysis, the researchers feed the inequality assessments of wealth -based greenhouse gas emissions in climate modeling frameworks, allowing them to systematically direct changes in global temperatures and repeat the harsh weather events that occurred between 1990 and 2019.
By offering emissions the richest 10 %, 1 % and 0.1 %, they made the changes in the climate and frequent weather events that would have occurred without them. By comparing those who have made changes, they thought they would be able to calculate their responsibility for the crisis that the world finds itself a day.
In 2020, the global average temperature was 0.61 ° C from 1990. The researchers found that about 65 % of that increase could be attributed to emissions from the richest 10 % global, a group they knew, including all those who earn more than 42,980 euros (36,472 pounds). This includes both the United Kingdom’s full -time salary, which is 37,430 pounds.
The richest groups are still inappropriate, with the richest 1 % – those who have an annual income of 147,200 euros – responsible for 20 % of the global heating, the richest 0.1 % – 800,000 or so in the world exceeding 53770 euros – responsible for 8 %.
“We found that the richest 10 % contributed 6.5 times to global warming more than average, as it contributed the highest 1 %, 0.1 % 20 and 76 times, respectively,” writing in its paper, which was published on Wednesday in Nature Climateghic.
“If everyone had left like 50 % of the world’s population, the world would have witnessed the minimum addition of additional warming since 1990,” said co -author Karl Friedrich Chliocler. On the other hand, if the population of the entire world is emitting from the top of 10 %, 1 %, or 0.1 %, the temperature increase will be 2.9 ° C, 6.7 ° C or 12.2 ° C completely that cannot be completely dispensed.
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The researchers said that they hope that the analysis will inform political interventions that recognize the unequal contributions in the collapse of the climate presented by the richest wealthy in the world and the social enhancement of climate action.
The research comes amid intense recovery from countries such as the United States, and even discounts from the United Kingdom and other European countries, to providing funding for poor countries to adapt to climate collapse and reduce their worst effects.
“This is not an academic discussion – it is related to the real effects of the climate crisis today,” Schiannner added. “Climate work that does not address the huge responsibilities of the wealthy members of society risk the loss of one of the strongest wheels we have to reduce harm in the future.”
