14.02.2022 | Benedikt Bruckner, Klaus Hubacek, Yuli Shan, Honglin Zhong, Kuishuang Fenf | Nature Sustainability |

Bruckner et al. show that carbon footprints 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 tCO2. 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.

Link: Nature.