Shift the focus from the super-poor to the super-rich

By I. Otto, Kyoung Mi Kim, N. Dubrovsky, Wolfgang Lucht. Nature Climate Change, 2019

145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3ecc8d36cf4140567cf03c3fbd8bfab6568769a3

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

1. J. Barrett
2. D. Ivanova
3. Felix Creutzig
4. Richard Wood
5. Dominik Wiedenhofer
6. M. Callaghan
7. T. Wiedmann
8. Manfred Lenzen

In Pollution

1. J. Barrett
2. Dominik Wiedenhofer

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. D. Ivanova
2. J. Barrett
3. Felix Creutzig
4. Richard Wood
5. Dominik Wiedenhofer
6. Manfred Lenzen
7. G. P. Peters
8. Yi Yang

Citations in the corpus

• Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options (2020, background): “The overall mitigation potentials strongly depend on income, as high-income households fly much more [4, 5, 65].”
• The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability (2020, background): “The carbon footprint of a typical super-rich household of two is estimated to be about 130 tCO2eq (Otto et al., 2019), compared to a world average of 3.”