'The emissions from a single billionaire spaceflight would exceed the lifetime emissions of someone in the poorest billion people on Earth.'
published last month, French economist Lucas Chancel estimated that "an 11-minute [space] flight emits no fewer than 75 tonnes of carbon per passenger once indirect emissions are taken into account ."
"The global emissions gap to keep the 1.5degC Paris goal alive is not the result of the consumption of most of the world's people: it reflects instead the excessive emissions of just the richest citizens on the planet," Gore said in a statement. "It is necessary for governments to target measures at their richest, highest emitters--the climate and inequality crises should be tackled together.
"Our research highlights the challenge of ensuring a more equitable distribution of the remaining and rapidly diminishing global carbon budget," said Ghosh. "If we continue on the same trajectory as today, the stark inequalities in income and emissions across the global population will remain, challenging the equity principle at the very heart of the Paris Agreement.
Authored by Tim Gore, head of the Low Carbon and Circular Economy program at IEEP, the new research paper notes that "while carbon inequality is often most stark at the global level, inequalities within countries are also very significant."
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