{"id":974103,"date":"2021-11-05T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=974103"},"modified":"2021-11-05T21:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T01:29:05","slug":"study-worlds-richest-1-derailing-paris-agreement-climate-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-worlds-richest-1-derailing-paris-agreement-climate-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: World&#039;s Richest 1% Derailing Paris Agreement Climate Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-worlds-richest-1-derailing-paris-agreement-climate-goals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=974103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/jeff-bezos-amazon-file-Getty.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The richest one percent of humanity is on track to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/nov\/05\/carbon-top-1-percent-could-jeopardise-1point5c-global-heating-limit\">release<\/a> 70 metric tons of CO2 per person per year in the near future, or an amount of carbon dioxide \u201c30 times greater\u201d than what is compatible with maintaining global warming below an international consensus threshold of 1.5 Celsius, the <em>Guardian<\/em> reported Friday citing a new study by Oxfam.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s richest one percent constitutes a population smaller than that of Germany, which is home to more than 84 million people. This elite demographic \u201cwill account for 16 percent of total [CO2] emissions by 2030, up from 13 percent of emissions in 1990,\u201d according to Oxfam\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/policy-practice.oxfam.org\/resources\/carbon-inequality-in-2030-per-capita-consumption-emissions-and-the-15c-goal-621305\/\">study<\/a>. \u201cMeanwhile, the poorest 50 percent will be releasing an average of one tonne of CO2 annually.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Oxfam referenced an international climate change <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\">treaty<\/a> known as The Paris Agreement. The legally binding document was adopted by 196 states at the 2015 United Nations (U.N.) Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris and went into effect in November 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.305882352941\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The carbon footprints of the richest 1% is set to be 30x greater than the level compatible with the 1.5\u00b0C goal of the Paris Agreement in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to tackle excessive emissions of the world\u2019s richest people AND extreme inequality at the same time. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COP26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COP26<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dVSur5WPnL\">pic.twitter.com\/dVSur5WPnL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OxfamAmerica (@OxfamAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OxfamAmerica\/status\/1456410988824170499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIts goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels,\u201d according to the U.N.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Oxfam\u2019s new research demonstrates that \u201cthe fight to keep 1.5C within reach is not being hampered by the consumption of most people on the planet, but by the excessive emissions of the world\u2019s richest citizens,\u201d according to Tim Gore, who authored Oxfam\u2019s November 5 study titled \u201cCarbon inequality in 2030: Per capita consumption emissions and the 1.5C goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the total emissions produced by the richest 10 percent could be sufficient to exceed the amount allocated for keeping within the 1.5C targets by 2030 \u2013 regardless of what the other 90 percent of the population does,\u201d Gore noted.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. is currently holding its 2021 Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, with the event slated to last through November 12. Dozens of world leaders and heads of state have gathered at the event since October 31, ostensibly to discuss ways in which their home countries may work to curb CO2 emissions. A number of the summit\u2019s delegates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10152027\/Hypocrite-airways-Jeff-Bezoss-48m-gulf-stream-leads-parade-400-private-jets.html\">arrived<\/a> in Glasgow via private planes, including U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain\u2019s Prince Charles, and U.S. billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate jets owned by the world\u2019s elite have descended on Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nation\u2019s COP26 climate conference, filling up local airfields and angering environmentalists,\u201d Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/private-jets-jeff-bezos-biden-johnson-trudeau-cop26-climate-conference-2021-11#japan-recently-retired-its-two-boeing-747-400-aircraft-formerly-used-for-state-travel-and-they-now-sit-in-an-aircraft-storage-facility-in-the-arizona-desert-10\">reported<\/a> on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>The event has drawn roughly 400 private planes to Glasgow over the past week, according to Scotland\u2019s <em>Sunday Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The richest one percent of humanity is on track to release 70 metric tons of CO2 per person per year in the near future, or an amount of carbon dioxide &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}