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In SUVs and on planes, richest one per cent drive climate-heating emissions

Kenya Nairobi climate change protest Sept 2019

London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Prone to frequent flying, a passion for SUVs and big spending, the richest one per cent of the world’s population produced twice as many planet-heating emissions as the poorest half of humanity over the last quarter-century, researchers said on Monday. That excessive consumption has left little room in the world’s “carbon […]