Two -thirds of global warming caused by the 10 % richest in the world, and discover the study Climate News

The authors of the study argue with progressive taxes on wealth and intense carbon investments that can provide a solution.

The 10 percent of the world’s richest population is responsible for two -thirds of the global warming phenomenon since 1990, according to researchers.

The way the wealthy and investment consumed greatly increased the dangers of heat and droughts, the researchers wrote study It was published on Wednesday in the Nature Climate magazine, the monthly magazine reviewed by the peers.

This is the first study to determine the effect of special wealth concentrated on extremist climate events.

“We link the carbon feet to the richest individuals directly with the effects of climate in the real world,” the main author Sarah Shinagert, a scientist at Ethan Zurich General University, told Agence France -Presse. “It is a transformation from the carbon account towards the climate accountability.”

Compared to the global average, for example, the richest of 1 percent has contributed 26 again to one time heat waves and 17 again for dehydration in the Amazon, according to the study.

The emissions of the 10 percent richest in China and the United States- which represent approximately half of the global carbon pollution- led to an altitude of 2 to three times in the maximum temperature.

“If everyone is emitting from 50 percent of the world’s population, the world would have seen the minimum additional warming since 1990,” said Carl Ferdrich Chliocler, co -author. “Treating this imbalance is crucial to a fair and effective climate work.”

It burned fossil fuels and removed the forests by heating the average surface of the Earth by 1.3 ° C (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit), most of them during the past thirty years.

The wealthy gates play a major role in leading the maximum climate.

Schwengart and its colleagues merged economic data and simulating climate to track emissions from different global income groups and assessed their impact on specific types of cruel climate -enhanced weather.

The researchers also emphasized the role of emissions included in financial investment instead of mere lifestyle and personal consumption. The impact of this consumption and investment is particularly severe in tropical regions such as Amazon, Southeast Asia and South Africa – all areas of the world that have contributed historically with less than global emissions, but were not affected by the harsh weather.

“Our study shows that severe climatic effects are not only the result of abstract global emissions. Instead, we can link them directly to our lives and investment options, which in turn are linked to wealth,” Schwencart said. “We have found that the wealthy gates play a major role in leading the maximum climate, providing strong support for climate policies aimed at reducing their emissions.”

The authors have argued that targeting financial activities and investment portfolios for high -income individuals can lead to great climate gains.

“The climatic measures that do not deal with the huge responsibilities of the richest members of society risk the loss of one of the strongest wheels that we have to reduce harm in the future,” said Schiannner.

He pointed out that capital owners can be responsible for climatic effects through gradual taxes on wealth and intensive investment of carbon, thus providing support that affects the need for adaptation and damage in weak countries.

Previous research has shown that imposing taxes on origins related to assets is more fair than spacious carbon taxes, which tend to the burden of those with less income.

Recent initiatives to increase Superrich taxes and multinationals mostly have stopped, especially since US President Donald Trump returned to power in January.

In 2021, approximately 140 countries agreed to work on the tax of international companies for multinational companies with nearly half of the minimum rate of 15 percent, but these talks also stopped.

According to Antipoventy Ngo Oxfam, the richest 1 percent has accumulated $ 42 trillion in a new wealth over the past decade.

It says that the richest of 1 percent has a wealth larger than the lowest 95 percent combined.