{"id":4330,"date":"2015-09-08T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:10:57","slug":"who-owes-what-quantifying-global-climate-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/who-owes-what-quantifying-global-climate-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Who owes what? Quantifying global climate debt<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A letter in Nature Climate Change presents a new way to quantify the contribution each country has made to climate change through a nation\u2019s carbon and climate debts. This new method ranks Canada as the fourth largest climate debt-holder. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Considering only national CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion accumulated between 1990 and 2010 the United States is the largest debtor, claiming 32 per cent of the cumulative climate debt, while India is the biggest creditor. An accompanying news and views discusses the pros and cons of this approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nclimate2774\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em>\u00a0Nature Climate Change\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>September 7<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">H. Damon Matthews, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter in Nature Climate Change presents a new way to quantify the contribution each country has made to climate change through a nation\u2019s carbon and climate debts. This new method ranks Canada as the fourth largest climate debt-holder. \u00a0 Considering only national CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion accumulated between 1990 and 2010 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[869,31,1445],"class_list":["post-4330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canada-en","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-17Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}