A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON GLOBAL CARBON EMISSION INEQUALITY: INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL INTERPERSONAL CARBON GINI-INDEX

摘要

With the rapaid growth of carbon emission in developing countries, the gap of emission level per capital between developing countries and developed countries become narrow, which leads to more equality of global interpersonal carbon emission. However, the global carbon inequality status is still very severe with Gini-index around 0.6. what’s more, quite a part of the emission in developing countries is transferred emission from developed countries, when this part is considered, the global Gini-index become higher. This study depicts ageneral view of the global interpersonal carbon emission inequality situation in recent decades, which alsoprovides a theoretical basis for the abatement responsibility assignment on interperonal level rather than onnational level across countries.