“Climate Inequality Report 2023”

Figure 4 shows the carbon foot- ceed emissions by the entire bottom half prints of the bottom 50%, the middle 40% of the global population - or to put it more and the top 10% across regions of the drastically, the consumption and invest- world. [...] a els of the bottom half of the population in strong concentration of emissions at the North America are comparable to those top of the distribution and negligible con- of the European middle 40% and the top tributions to overall emissions of the bot- 10% in South and South-East Asia, and 5The analog of Figure 3 based on the data in Bruckner et al., 2022 is reported in the Appendix for comparison. [...] In fact, the than two thirds of global carbon inequal- ratio of the emissions of the bottom half ity was due to between-country inequal- to the top 10% of the population is high- ities, in 2019 global carbon inequality is est in the MENA region, where the top mostly driven by differences in the emis- 10% emit over 15 times more CO2e than sion levels of different population groups the bottom 50%. [...] The carbon footprint of the bottom half of the population in SSA is the smallest in the world by a wide margin, while that of the top 10% is in the same range as the 1.3. [...] often near per capita targets set by rich In the Democratic Republic of Congo, countries for 2030 the poorest of the four displayed coun- The emissions of the bottom half of the tries, the poorer half of the population population are close to or in line with the emits roughly 0.25t CO2e per year.