WDM: Climate Calendar for UK
2007-01-10 by noiv | Filed under Campaigns, Emissions, Reports.
UK based World Development Movement (WDM) tackles the underlying causes of poverty and forces decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor.
WDM defines itself as a democratic membership organisation of individuals and local groups.
The Climate Calendar maps yearly carbon dioxide emissions of an average person in UK (9.62 tons) on every day and compares the amount to other countries.
Already by 8 January, each UK citizen emitted as much CO2 as the average person in one of the poorest countries in the world, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), will in the whole year (Afghanistan, Chad, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Somalia, Laos, Zambia, Sudan, ….).
By the end of New Years Eve the average citizen in the UK will have emitted more than the average citizens of 164 other countries containing 5.4 billion people – 84 per cent of the world’s population.
The report states ‘Climate change is a justice issue’ and asks ‘what is fair-minded’ in terms of emissions. It concludes to keep the planet healthy within in the 450ppm or 2
