Oxfam: Emissions of 'the one per cent' more than double those of poorest half of the world

New report highlights huge inequality among the world's carbon emitters

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Major new report highlights out-sized carbon impact of the world's richest people

A new report by Oxfam has laid bare the startling inequality between rich and poor when it comes to carbon emissions, concluding that the carbon emissions from the richest one per cent are more than double...

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