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Gore, T., ‘Confronting carbon inequality: putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery’, Oxfam International, , https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/confronting-carbon-inequality; Credit Suisse Research Institute, Global Wealth Report, 2021, , https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/global-wealth-report.html.a net worth of $1,055,337 or more
Credit Suisse Research Institute,Global Wealth Report, 2021, 18.around 1 tonne of carbon dioxide a year
This figure is calculated using the C1 pathway for global emissions in 2050 from the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ estimate for global population in 2050. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ed. P. R. Shukla et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, ‘World population prospects 2022’, 2022,population.un.org/wpp/.In Sweden, that figure currently stands at 9 tonnes
Jonsson, M., ‘Konsumtionsbaserade växthusgasutsläpp per område’, Sveriges Miljömål, https://www.sverigesmiljomal.se/miljomalen/generationsmalet/konsumtionsbaserade-vaxthusgasutslapp-per-omrade/.In the US that figure is 17.1 tonnes … in China 6.6 tonnes
Global Carbon Project, ‘Data supplement to the global carbon budget 2021’ 2021, https://doi.org/10.18160/gcp-2021.