Resources
Consult Core Econ’s Fact checker for a detailed list of sources.
Exercises
- Exercise 1: Your carbon footprint
- Exercise 2: Calculating inequality
- Exercise 3: Climate change challenges for vulnerable countries
- Exercise 4: Addressing the prisoners’ dilemma
- Exercise 5: Ecosystem impacts of climate change
- Exercise 6: Tracking climate action
Figures
- Figure 1: Cumulative CO2 emissions by world region and selected countries (1850–2024).
- Figure 2: Carbon footprints per person, by region (2019).
- Figure 3: Global inequality of individual emissions: between-country vs within-country inequality (1990–2019), using the Theil index of inequality.
- Figure 4: Per capita emissions growth by percentile of global emissions distribution (1990–2019).
- Figure 5: 2019 greenhouse gas emissions (top panel) and shares in world total (bottom panel), by global emitter group.
- Figure 6: Share of annual CO2 emissions by country (1950–2023).
- Figure 7: Per capita CO2 emissions by country (1950–2023).
- Figure 8: Share of global cumulative CO2 emissions (1950–2023).
- Figure 9: Gini of CO2 emissions per country (1950–2023).
- Figure 10: Global carbon inequality: damages vs emissions vs capacity to finance.
- Figure 11: Challenges related to climate change, faced by the most vulnerable countries.
- Figure 12: A market with negative externalities.
- Figure 13: Climate change as a prisoners’ dilemma game.
- Figure 14: Burning embers.
- Figure 15: CRD and potential pathways.
- Figure 16: A blueprint of the City of Hope for the City of Cape Town (CCT).
- Figure 17: Important milestones in global climate negotiations.
- Figure 18: Member countries of the CVF.
