{"id":384,"date":"2022-09-30T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/?page_id=384"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:58:48","slug":"1-1-to-solve-this-problem-we-need-to-understand-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/endnotes\/how-climate-works\/1-1-to-solve-this-problem-we-need-to-understand-it\/","title":{"rendered":"1.1 &#8216;To solve this problem, we need to understand it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"notes\">\n<p class=\"author\"><a href=\"\/contributors#greta-thunberg\" rel=\"author\">Greta Thunberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">All online sources accessed on <time datetime=\"2020-04-24\">24 April 2020<\/time><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><q>The richest 1 per cent \u2026 are responsible<\/q> Gore, T., <cite>\u2018Confronting carbon inequality: putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery\u2019<\/cite>, Oxfam International, <time datetime=\"2021-09-21\">21 September 2020<\/time>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/research\/confronting-carbon-inequality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/research\/confronting-carbon-inequality<\/a>; Credit Suisse Research Institute, <cite>Global Wealth Report, 2021<\/cite>, <time datetime=\"2021-06\">June 2021<\/time>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.credit-suisse.com\/about-us\/en\/reports-research\/global-wealth-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.credit-suisse.com\/about-us\/en\/reports-research\/global-wealth-report.html<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><q>a net worth of $1,055,337 or more<\/q> Credit Suisse Research Institute,<span class=\"book\">Global Wealth Report, 2021<\/span>, 18.\n<p><q>around 1 tonne of carbon dioxide a year<\/q> This figure is calculated using the C1 pathway for global emissions in 2050 from the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC\u2019s Sixth Assessment Report and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs\u2019 estimate for global population in 2050. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, <span class=\"book\">Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, <\/span>ed. P. R. Shukla et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg3\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg3\/<\/a> United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, <cite>\u2018World population prospects 2022\u2019<\/cite>, 2022,<a href=\"population.un.org\/wpp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">population.un.org\/wpp\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><q>In Sweden, that figure currently stands at 9 tonnes<\/q> Jonsson, M., <cite>\u2018Konsumtionsbaserade v\u00e4xthusgasutsl\u00e4pp per omr\u00e5de\u2019<\/cite>, Sveriges Milj\u00f6m\u00e5l, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sverigesmiljomal.se\/miljomalen\/generationsmalet\/konsumtionsbaserade-vaxthusgasutslapp-per-omrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sverigesmiljomal.se\/miljomalen\/generationsmalet\/konsumtionsbaserade-vaxthusgasutslapp-per-omrade\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><q>In the US that figure is 17.1 tonnes \u2026 in China 6.6 tonnes<\/q> Global Carbon Project, <cite>\u2018Data supplement to the global carbon budget 2021\u2019<\/cite> 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18160\/gcp-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18160\/gcp-2021<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Thunberg All online sources accessed on 24 April 2020 The richest 1 per cent \u2026 are responsible Gore, T., \u2018Confronting carbon inequality: putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery\u2019, Oxfam International, 21 September 2020, https:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/research\/confronting-carbon-inequality; Credit Suisse Research Institute, Global Wealth Report, 2021, June 2021, https:\/\/www.credit-suisse.com\/about-us\/en\/reports-research\/global-wealth-report.html. a net worth of $1,055,337&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-essay.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}