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Quantifying historical carbon and climate debts among nations [1]

Contributions to historical climate change have varied substantially among nations. These differences reflect underlying inequalities in wealth and development, and pose a fundamental challenge to the implementation of a globally equitable climate mitigation strategy. This Letter presents a new way to quantify historical inequalities among nations using carbon and climate debts, defined as the amount by which national climate contributions have exceeded a hypothetical equal per-capita share over time.

Publication Date: 
07/09/2015
H. Damon Matthews [2]
Nature Climate Change [3]
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Tags:
Climate Change [4], Carbon Dioxide [5], Fossil Fuels [6], History [7], Deforestation [8], Agriculture [9], Land Use [10], Global Warming [11], United States Of America (US) [12], India [13], China [14], Bangladesh [15], Nigeria [16], Pakistan [17], Brazil [18], Russia [19], Germany [20], Australia [21], Indonesia [22], Statistics [23]

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