Extreme poverty continues to afflict many countries globally, with the division in wealth only growing greater.
The findings highlight the vast carbon inequality occurring worldwide, with the bottom economic half of the global population’s consumption only driving 10% of carbon emissions globally.
“Quantifying carbon footprints of people in poverty, which are largely below 1 tCO2, revealed that their per capita contribution to both national and global emissions was remarkably low.
The study also runs through multiple scenarios in predicting carbon emission increases that would occur by lifting those living in extreme poverty up.