Bubble Plot from Scientific Research

This shows large inequalities in per-capita carbon emissions (top 10%, middle 40%, bottom 50%). It also shows that high emissions within regions are driven by the top 10% of emitters, while the lowest 50% of emitters in all regions—including North America and Europe—are currently around or below the per-capita emissions consistent with a 2 C pathway. Width of the circles corresponds to the proportion of global emissions within each region’s population-income group. 2 C consistent pathways are from the UN Emissions Gap report 12 . This figure adapted from the World Inequality Report 2022 is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (ref. 14 ).

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