The study, prepared and supervised by the well-known global economist Lucas Chancelle, said that every person in the 1 percent of the world’s richest people emits 110 tons of carbon dioxide annually. That’s seventeen times the average release of every other person in the world’s population, which is set at 6.4 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
The study increases its cumulative diagnosis of the phenomenon, revealing that the ten percent of the world’s richest population causes half of the global pollution, while the poorest half of the world’s population causes only 12 percent of global pollution. One individual in this category emits more than 1.6 tons. of carbon dioxide per year, which is less than a quarter of the average per capita emitter globally.
Many international studies have accused the richest countries in the world of causing the highest levels of pollution in the world. Where the European continent contributes more than 25 percent of global pollution, the United States of America alone sends 17 percent of global pollution, despite the fact that the population of the two regions does not exceed 10 percent of the world’s population.
Researcher in economic sociology, Maya Hassan, divided the reasons for the exacerbation of this phenomenon at the global level, explaining in an interview with “Sky News Arabia” two different levels of those reasons: “On the one hand, the details of the behaviors and lifestyles in daily life for the richest class of individuals at the level of The world is very consumptive.The levels of water drainage, the use of individual means of transportation, the types and quantities of materials, food and clothing they use on a daily basis, apart from the excess energy in heating and cooling throughout the months of the year, all contribute to doubling the amounts of energy needed to supply and produce all of this, which doubles the amount of carbon dioxide used”.
The researcher Hassan adds: “The other level is related to the number and network of industrial and productive institutions owned by these 10 percent of the world’s rich, who own more than 85 of the industrial and production institutions in the world, and thus cause the widest global emissions, without any social, cultural and environmental policies responsible for this cause. contamination.”
Many studies and global demands have spread over the past years, calling for the imposition of huge financial taxes on this class of the rich, individuals and countries, so that these funds are included in global environmental projects that mitigate the effects of climate pollution at the global level. Especially by helping the poorest countries and communities in the world to modernize the transportation networks in their countries, as well as developing and modernizing energy production institutions to be cleaner on the environmental level, such as solar energy and wind energy production.
According to what is expected to be presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the end of this month, the financial gap between the parties and the different countries in this regard is approximately one hundred billion dollars, which is supposed to be paid by the richest countries in the world in favor of adjusting the scale in causing climate pollution, but it Not fulfilling its commitments for more than ten years.
Developed countries first agreed to the $100 billion goal at the Copenhagen Conference in 2009, and the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015, in which all countries agreed to cooperate to curb global warming, confirmed their commitment to climate finance even though donor countries It was far from achieving the goal.
President Joe Biden came under fire in April, after pledging just $5.7 billion a year by 2024, a fraction of what the European Union has already contributed. He recently announced a doubling of that number, but he still needs the approval of the US Congress.
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