Income distribution and carbon footprint

Estimating your position in the income distribution and carbon footprint

We want you to learn

• Of where you are located in the income contribution in your country, in Europe and in the world
• Of your carbon emissions and reduction potentials
• To understand how income and carbon emissions are connected

We ask you to do

1. Open https://wid.world/simulator/ and estimate with this tool where in the income distribution you are situated compared to people of your country, Europe and the world.
2. Afterwards, open https://you.climatepartner.com/en/carbon-calculator/choose-footprint and calculate  your carbon footprint.   

Our questions

What surprised you? What have you learnt?

What do you think is the connection between income inequality and carbon inequality?

Some more information for you

Incomes and emissions are strongly linked

In 2020, the richest 1% of the world’s population emitted more than twice the combined share of the poorest 50%. Meeting the Paris Agreement’s climate target of 1.5°C requires reducing emissions to a per capita lifestyle footprint of about 2-2.5 tCO2e by 2030, which means that the richest 1% would need to reduce their current per capita emissions by at least a factor of 30 and the richest 10% by a factor of 10, while the per capita emissions of the poorest 50 % could still increase on average by a factor of three.