DESNÉ MASIE: Stronger penalties needed for rich countries over emissions inaction
Africa suffers due to developed world’s climate change sins
02 February 2020 - 16:32
I read a statistic the other day that I have not been able to get out of my mind.
I learnt, with a combination of shame and fury, that the average Brit emits more carbon in two weeks than the citizens of seven African nations emit in an entire year, and that someone in the UK will take just five days to emit the same carbon as someone in Rwanda does in an entire year...
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