Global carbon inequality

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F17%3A00095370" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/17:00095370 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40974-017-0072-9" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40974-017-0072-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40974-017-0072-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40974-017-0072-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Global carbon inequality

Original language description

Global climate change and inequality are inescapably linked both in terms of who contributes climate change and who suffers the consequences. This fact is also partly reflected in two United Nations (UN) processes: on the one hand, the Paris Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change under which countries agreed to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and, on the other hand, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals aiming to end poverty. These agreements are seen as important foundation to put the world nations on a sustainable pathway. However, how these agreements can be achieved or whether they are even mutually compatible is less clear. We explore the global carbon inequality between and within countries and the carbon implications of poverty alleviation by combining detailed consumer expenditure surveys for different income categories for a wide range of countries with an environmentally extended multi-regional input–output approach to estimate carbon footprints of different household groups, globally, and assess the carbon implications of moving the poorest people out of poverty. Given the current context, increasing income leads to increasing carbon footprints and makes global targets for mitigating greenhouse gases more difficult to achieve given the pace of technological progress and current levels of fossil fuel dependence. We conclude that the huge level of carbon inequality requires a critical discussion of undifferentiated income growth. Current carbon-intensive lifestyles and consumption patterns need to enter the climate discourse to a larger extent.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50200 - Economics and Business

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-17978S" target="_blank" >GA16-17978S: Vulnerability and the Economy-Energy Nexus at the Sector Level: A Historic, Input-Output and CGE Analysis</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energy, Ecology and Environment

ISSN

2363-7692

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

361-369

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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