Giving Compass' Take:
- A recent report from the World Inequality Lab highlights the stark disparity between per-capita emissions in high-income and low-income countries.
- Why do Americans have larger average carbon footprints than much of the rest of the world? Why might many people in lower-income countries be more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change?
- Read about how you can contribute to climate justice.
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As another year of extreme weather disasters draws to a close, a new report from the World Inequality Lab shows how disproportionately culpable the world's richest people and nations are for climate pollution.
“Global inequalities seem to be about as great today as they were at the peak of western imperialism in the early 20th century,” the report said. The uneven impacts of climate change will “exacerbate global inequalities, which are already very high,” Lucas Chancel, lead author of the report, told Yahoo News. “Poorest countries like Bangladesh or Small Island States will be hit very hard by rising sea levels or extreme weather events.
Read the full article about climate injustice at EcoWatch.