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This tool allows users to explore the inequalities in carbon dioxide emissions across the world by linking emissions to income levels.
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The Emissions Inequality Dashboard looks at the global emissions distribution across income groups for 1990 through 2019. To do this, it combines global and national income inequality data with national consumption emissions from 172 countries. Future scenarios of carbon inequality are also shown, based on various possible trajectories of economic growth and carbon emissions. This is used to demonstrate how different income groups contribute to the global carbon budget, and to assess the remaining number of years before the carbon budget is diminished under different scenarios.
Other publication / A new report from Oxfam draws upon SEI research which highlights the disproportionate greenhouse gas emissions generated by upper-income populations.
SEI brief / This report highlights the methods used to calculate the chasm in carbon emissions between the world's richest and poorest populations.
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.
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