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World's richest tenth produce half carbon emissions, poorest half one tenth: Oxfam

2015-12-02 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The richest tenth of the world's people produce half of all carbon emissions, while the poorest half - most threatened by droughts and super storms linked to climate change - produce only one tenth, Oxfam said on Wednesday. The richest 10 percent have, on average, carbon footprints 11 times that of the poorest 3.5 billion people on the planet, the campaign group said in a report to coincide with talks in Paris this month on a global deal to slow climate change. One of the biggest obstacles...

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