You might have seen it already in the news or on social media, Oxfam sent out a new paper “Confronting Carbon Inequality”. We hope you will find interesting stats to reinforce your own and our common messages and actions.

What does it show ?

• The 25 years from 1990 to 2015 saw a rapid escalation of the climate crisis, as global annual carbon emissions grew by around 60%, and the total emissions added to the atmosphere since the mid-1800s approximately doubled;
• The richest 10% of humanity (c.630millionpeople) accounted for 52% of the cumulative emissions, depleting the global carbon budget for 1.5C by nearly a third(31%);
• The richest 1% (c.63millionpeople) alone accounted for over 15% of the cumulative emissions, using up 9% of the carbon budget: more than twice the poorest 50%(c.3.1billion people);
  Unless emissions continue to decline rapidly, the 1.5C global carbon budget will be fully depleted by 2030. The inequality is suchthat the richest 10% alone would fully deplete it by just a few years later, even if everyone else's emissions dropped to zero tomorrow.

Wanna know more ?

A) Join the Oxfam webinar on Friday from 1PM to 2.15PM (still possible to join the Global Strike after) :
http://oxf.am/carbon-inequality-webinar (more info at the end of the mail)

B) Read the paper “Confronting Carbon Inequality”
FR : https://www.oxfamsol.be/fr/detruire-la-planete-un-privilege-de-riches
ENG : https://www.oxfamsol.be/nl/co2-uitstoot-een-privilege-van-de-rijken

C) Shorter read via our web articles
NL : https://www.oxfamsol.be/nl/co2-uitstoot-een-privilege-van-de-rijken-0
FR : https://www.oxfamsol.be/fr/detruire-la-planete-un-privilege-de-riches-0

More info on the webinar
« Who Is Driving the Climate Crisis? Confronting Carbon Inequality », with :
BAN KI-MOON, Deputy Chair of The Elders and former UN Secretary General;
HILDA FLAVIA NAKABUYE, climate rights activist and founder of Uganda's Fridays for Future movement ;
HINDOU OUMAROU IBRAHIM, environmental activist and President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad;
SHARAN BURROW, General Secretary of ITUC
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