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Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’
(www.carbonbrief.org)
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Do you have a decent link to corroborate that?
It’s in the linked article. Someone quoted it in this thread.
I know that in the article they mentions €42,980 and I appreciate carbon brief. Still, I tried to find in the study itself how they calculated it, but somehow I didn't manage to. This is why I asked for another link.
https://wid.world/ has all the data you’re looking for
Thank you very much but it looks like they don't have what I am looking for. I followed several path in More Indicators and Other Indicators but everything that comes out is by country and/or percentages and at my most hopeful moment I got:
Anyways, thanks again!