All humans contribute to climate change but not equally. Here I estimate the global inequality of individual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 1990 and 2019 using a newly assembled dataset of income and wealth inequality, environmental input-output tables and a framework differentiating emissions from consumption and investments. In my benchmark estimates, I find that the bottom 50% of the world population emitted 12% of global emissions in 2019, whereas the top 10% emitted 48% of the total. Since 1990, the bottom 50% of the world population has been responsible for only 16% of all emissions growth, whereas the top 1% has been responsible for 23% of the total. While per-capita emissions of the global top 1% increased since 1990, emissions from low- and middle-income groups within rich countries declined. Contrary to the situation in 1990, 63% of the global inequality in individual emissions is now due to a gap between low and high emitters within countries rather than between countries. Finally, the bulk of total emissions from the global top 1% of the world population comes from their investments rather than from their consumption. These findings have implications for contemporary debates on fair climate policies and stress the need for governments to develop better data on individual emissions to monitor progress towards sustainable lifestyles. Understanding the connection between economic inequality and climate change requires rich and reliable data. This study combines recently assembled data on income and wealth inequality with environmental data to shed light on the uneven individual contributions to climate change across the world.
Dal 19 novembre a fine dicembre, sulle strade dei Comuni di Bellusco, Vimercate, Bernareggio, Busnago, Arcore e Concorezzo, verranno affissi i nove cartelloni della campagna di comunicazione sociale voluta da Offertasociale, l’azienda dei 29 comuni del vimercatese e trezzese. Realizzata in collaborazione con gli studenti di alcuni istituti scolastici del comprensorio di Vimercate, è frutto di una
Il Mit di Boston e Climate interactive hanno preparato uno strumento che mostra gli effetti delle politiche ambientali. Wired lo ha provato alla Cop28 di Dubai
Dignity For Irregular Migrants in EU Farm2Fork Labour Markets. The DignityFIRM project aims to improve dignity of migrant workers in Farm to Fork labour markets
From leadership skills, to consumer awareness and entrepreneurship. There is a wide range of projects taking place across the world to make fairness the new normal. To date, we have implemented more than 150 programmes.
Turn academic papers, PDFs, web pages, and articles into audio. Take notes on key ideas with one click. Select which sections to listen to. An A.I. voice that sounds so lifelike and human, you can barely tell it's digital!
Le lingue straniere sono essenziali per trovare lavoro. Ma l'inglese non è quella con cui si guadagna di più. E anche con l'italiano si può fare carriera all'estero
Iconografie è una rivista trimestrale che spazia tra i fenomeni politici, le estetiche, le trasformazioni tecnologiche e i dibattiti culturali della contemporaneità
This database covers immigration-related demographic data for 7 Western European countries (Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and United Kingdom) between 1990 and 2009. A number of indicators are included to cover the following aspects: (1) a general overview about the immigrant population in the selected countries (2) information about numbers of immigrants entering and settling in the selected countries (3) information about the backgrounds of immigrants, such as countries of origin, religious backgrounds, gender and education. The data were collected as part of the FP7-funded project Support and Opposition to Migration (http://www.som-project.eu/)
Italy is one of the most representative ‘new immigration countries’. Between the 1980s and the 1990s, it became a major country of destination for immigrants coming from Asia, Middle East and North Africa. As a result, since the mid-nineties, immigration has gained salience within the Italian political debate. Building on the existing literature on agenda-setting and framing studies, this article studies the evolution of the immigration issue in Italy over the last two decades. It focuses on the framing and, more specifically, the position political actors tend to adopt when debating on immigration. In particular, the main research questions are: to what extent is the framing of immigration associated with the traditional left vs. right spectrum? Do incumbent political parties tend to adopt a different position toward immigration than opposition parties? This article analyses party competition dynamics over the immigration issue in Italy from 1995 to 2011. The author carried out a political-claim analysis of articles from two Italian national daily newspapers. Findings show that immigration is more a positional issue than a valence one. Political actors’ positions towards migration appear to be anchored to the old left vs. right dimension of the political conflict. This demonstrates that parties’ engagement within the political conflict goes beyond electoral campaigns. Finally, being in government seems to play a crucial role in “softening” the way party actors frame immigration, in terms of both the arguments used and the pro- or anti-immigration positions adopted.