Peer-reviewed / Empirical study
- New study challenges political claims that some high-income countries have achieved “green growth”– revealing that under current growth-oriented strategies, emission reductions in these nations fall drastically short of meeting the climate goals and fairness requirements of the Paris Agreement.
- If current trends continue, even the 11 high-income countries that have “decoupled” carbon emissions from GDP growth would on average take over 200 years to get their emissions close to zero, and would emit more than 27-times their fair share of the “global carbon budget” that must not be exceeded if we are to avert catastrophic global warming beyond 1.5 C.
- The authors argue that the pursuit of economic growth in high-income countries is at odds with internationally agreed climate targets, and call for…
