The Carbon Inequality Era: An assessment of the global distribution of consumption emissions among individuals from 1990 to 2015 and beyond

Kartha, Sivan; Kemp‐Benedict, Eric; Ghosh, Emily; Nazareth, Anna; Gore, Tim

doi:10.21201/2020.6492

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The Carbon Inequality Era: An assessment of the global distribution of consumption emissions among individuals from 1990 to 2015 and beyond

Published • Sep 21, 2020

Authors:

Sivan Kartha

Eric Kemp‐Benedict

Emily Ghosh

Abstract

In the 25 years from 1990 to 2015, annual global carbon emissions grew by 60%, approximately doubling total global cumulative emissions. This has brought the world perilously close to exceeding 2°C of warming, and it is now on the verge of exceeding 1.5°C. This paper examines the starkly different c...

Subject

Greenhouse gas

Global warming

Inequality

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