Around 30% of the world’s emissions have some carbon price, but how much extra are people paying? – Recently, I was in a meeting with a group of people who do not normally spend much time in the same room: environmentalists, climate scientists, and economists.
Over several days, we debated and tried to untangle some of the most contested issues around climate change: how drastic the impacts would be, what solutions would look like, and what this would mean for global development. The discussions were intense. There were disagreements left, right, and center…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- The rise of electoral democracy
- Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
- 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
- How primary energy is measured has changed across our charts
- What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?
Climate Change
- Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere
- Hannah Ritchie’s book, Clearing the Air, is coming out in paperback in September
- How do we track a changing climate?
