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A new report from Oxfam draws upon SEI’s Emissions Inequality Dashboard, which highlights the disproportionate greenhouse gas emissions generated by upper-income populations.
“Climate Equality: A Planet for the 99%” draws on research by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). The dataset, its methodology and the assumptions behind it are available at the Emissions Inequality Dashboard. Oxfam is solely responsible for the report and its conclusions.
An Oxfam report relying upon SEI research finds that the richest 1 percent of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution in 2019 as the 5 billion people making up the poorest two-thirds of humanity.
The Emissions Inequality Dashboard – which provided the foundational data for this report – examines the global emissions distribution across income groups for 1990 through 2019, the latest date for which such data is available. The Dashboard combines global and national income inequality data with national consumption-based emissions from 172 countries.
The Dashboard also provides possible scenarios for the future of emissions inequality through the year 2100 based on possible trajectories of inequality and carbon emissions.
Project / This project explores the link between social and economic inequality and the unsustainable carbon dioxide emissions that fuel human-caused climate change.
Tool / This tool allows you to explore the inequalities in carbon dioxide emissions across the world, by linking emissions to income levels.
Other publication / This paper draws on new data examining the starkly different global distribution of carbon consumption emissions among individuals from 1990 to 2015 and beyond.
Past event / Experts discuss inequalities in CO2 emissions across the world linking the emissions to income levels at COP28.
Feature / SEI Scientist Emily Ghosh discusses the continued disparity in carbon emissions between the poor and everyone else.
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