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Thanks for pointing this out.
I went back to the report, and yes, among the richest 10% globally are many more people than I had thought originally The #OXFAM report states that
"...between 1990 + 2015:
• The richest 10% of humanity (👉c.630 million people) accounted for 52% of the cumulative emissions,👈 depleting the global #CarbonBudget for 1.5C by nearly a...
Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2009-2016, who helped negotiate the Paris Agreement, finally realizes what all veteran energy transitionistas eventually realize: That it's foolish to think FF companies will ever be good partners in the #energytransition.
The impudence of the successors to the people who caused this #ClimateCatastrophe with an average global temperature not seen in 120,000 years is outrageous.
BREAKING A subsidiary of #BP plc <BP.L> will pay a record-setting $40 million penalty to settle civil U.S. charges that its Indiana-based #oil refinery violated federal laws aimed at curbing emissions of cancer-causing benzene in wastewater and other harmful pollutants
However, more revolutionary measures are needed.
Passing the fictitious +1.5 °C limit much sooner than we expected, we need a) the funds for decarbonizing society and b) no further detrimental opposition by #BigOil that literally buys politicians and has been lying about the #GreenHouse effect for decades: