{"id":61694,"date":"2022-01-30T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61694"},"modified":"2022-01-30T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T15:49:04","slug":"west-accused-of-climate-hypocrisy-as-emissions-dwarf-those-of-poor-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61694","title":{"rendered":"West accused of \u2018climate hypocrisy\u2019 as emissions dwarf those of poor countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West accused of \u2018climate hypocrisy\u2019 as emissions dwarf those of poor countries<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Average Briton produces more carbon in two days than Congolese person does in entire year, study finds<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Democratic Republic of Congo and London, UK. The Center for Global Development study highlights the energy inequality between rich and poor countries.\u00a0<\/span>Photograph: Getty\/AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the first two days of January, the average Briton was already responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than someone from the Democratic Republic of the Congo would produce in an entire year, according to analysis by the Center for Global Development (CGD).<\/p>\n

The study, which highlights the\u00a0\u201cvast energy inequality\u201d between rich and poor<\/a>\u00a0countries, found that each Briton produces 200 times the climate emissions of the average Congolese person, with people in the US producing 585 times as much. By the end of January, the carbon emitted by someone living in the UK will surpass the annual emissions of citizens of 30 low- and middle-income countries, it found.<\/p>\n

Euan Ritchie, a policy analyst at CGD Europe, said his work was prompted by the \u201cclimate hypocrisy\u201d of western countries, including the UK and the US, that have pledged to stop aid funding to fossil fuel projects in developing states.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Cop26 there was lots of hand-wringing by rich countries about the extent to which aid and other development finance should finance fossil fuels in poorer countries,\u201d said Ritchie. \u201cThe hypocrisy of this caught my attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur analysis shows that in just a few days, the average person in the UK produces more climate emissions than people in many low-income countries do in an entire year. It would be a cruel irony if the countries that have least contributed to this problem won\u2019t be able to have access to energy infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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West accused of \u2018climate hypocrisy\u2019 as emissions dwarf those of poor countries Average Briton produces more carbon in two days than Congolese person does in entire year, study finds The Democratic Republic of Congo and London, UK. The Center for Global Development study highlights the energy inequality between rich and poor countries.\u00a0Photograph: Getty\/AFP In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,141,32586,6917],"class_list":["post-61694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-karen-mcveigh","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61695,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694\/revisions\/61695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}