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
- We have a new Urbanization topic page
- How does food get traded around the world?
- How much are people across the world paying for their carbon emissions?
- Where do migrants live, and where were they born?
- Five million children die every year — what do they die from?
Climate Change
- How do we track a changing climate?
- Our data scientist Tuna Acisu’s successful quest to continue a 1,200-year climate record
- The world is warming despite natural fluctuations from the El Niño cycle
