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World's leading polluters have racked up $10 trillion carbon debt
2015-09-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The countries most responsible for global warming owe the rest of the world a tremendous debt, with the author of a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change putting the figure at $10 trillion. The author came up with that number by calculating how much CO2 each country emitted per capita since 1960, generally recognized as the onset of the worst of human-caused global warming. Countries with high per capita emissions carry a carbon debt while countries with lower per capita...
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