Super rich, super polluter
By DW
22 January 2022 |
7:21 am
Climate injustice: while the poorer half of the world's CO2 emissions are line with the climate change target of 1.5 degrees Celcius, an Oxfam study says the super-rich are exceeding it 30 times over.
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