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DOI	10.1038/s41893-021-00842-z
	Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions
	Bruckner, Benedikt; Hubacek, Klaus; Shan, Yuli; Zhong, Honglin; Feng, Kuishuang
发表日期	2022
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	311
结束页码	+
卷号	5 期号:4 页码:13
英文摘要	Carbon inequality mirrors extreme wealth and income inequalities globally, with a high level of consumption-based carbon emissions in rich nations. This study shows that lifting people out of poverty does not impact much emissions globally, though in poorer countries emissions could more than double. Wealth and income are disproportionately distributed among the global population. This has direct consequences on consumption patterns and consumption-based carbon footprints, resulting in carbon inequality. Due to persistent inequality, millions of people still live in poverty today. On the basis of global expenditure data, we compute country- and expenditure-specific per capita carbon footprints with unprecedented details. We show that they can reach several hundred tons of CO2 per year, while the majority of people living below poverty lines have yearly carbon footprints of less than 1 tCO(2). Reaching targets under United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, lifting more than one billion people out of poverty, leads to only small relative increases in global carbon emissions of 1.6-2.1% or less. Nevertheless, carbon emissions in low- and lower-middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa can more than double as an effect of poverty alleviation. To ensure global progress on poverty alleviation without overshooting climate targets, high-emitting countries need to reduce their emissions substantially.
学科领域	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000754958500001
来源期刊	NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272870
作者单位	University of Groningen; Shandong University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bruckner, Benedikt,Hubacek, Klaus,Shan, Yuli,et al. Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions[J],2022,5(4):13.
APA	Bruckner, Benedikt,Hubacek, Klaus,Shan, Yuli,Zhong, Honglin,&Feng, Kuishuang.(2022).Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,5(4),13.
MLA	Bruckner, Benedikt,et al."Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 5.4(2022):13.