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    The richest 1% of Switzerland produce eight times as much CO₂ emissions as the poorer half.


    The richest 1% of Switzerland produce eight times as much CO₂ emissions as the poorer half.

    https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emissions-reduction/richest-swiss-cause-the-most-environmental-emissions/90242550?utm_source=multiple&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=news_en&utm_content=o&utm_term=wpblock_highlighted-compact-news-carousel

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    2. Internal_Leke on

      The link doesn’t work for me.

      But I guess it’s the usual “if you own 1% of total, you account 1% of the CO2 production of the company”?

    3. oberwolfach on

      The headline is written in a garbled way. Reading the article, the message is that the top 1% produces 8 times the per capita emissions of the bottom 50%, not that the top 1% produces 8 times the total emissions of the bottom 50%. The former is believable; the latter is totally implausible.

    6. Sufficient-History71 on

      Sadly, there are quite a few people on this sub who are in their climate collapse denial phase or putting all the blame on China or India and come up with fake numbers.

    7. fabkosta on

      And yet, as much as I support an inheritance tax of 100%, it’s a really flawed idea to route its funds to climate protection. Not because the climate does not need protection, but because it’s applying one lever to a very different cause. If you want to protect the climate, go tax flying and heavy industry emissions.

    9. Complex_Mention_8495 on

      I am pretty sure the “rich” are not doing that on purpose with the idea of fucking up the climate. I guess traveling by air more often, driving a bigger car and consuming more luxurious/ exotic products play a big role here.

      For me these are symptoms of being wealthy. When people come to wealth they want to enjoy it in one way or the other. So then the question for me is, can we actually afford wealth for the broad masses?

    10. Judge_BobCat on

      Average person here actually produces much more emissions than the bottom 20%. What’s the point of this article ?

    13. kisamoto on

      Yes, richer people will consume more and therefore produce more emissions.

      But the methodology in these “reports” from Oxfam really isn’t great.

      > National consumption emissions were allocated to individuals within
      each country based on a functional relationship between income and
      emissions
      > […]
      > the approach assumed that emissions rise in proportion to income, above a
      minimum emissions floor and to a maximum emissions ceiling

      Yes, more income means you can buy more things but to just assume a direct correlation is naive.

      Also for those interested, these are the global income groups by percentile from [their methodology](https://oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2025-10/Climate%20Plunder%20Methodology%20Note%20-%20EU%20Version%20-%20No%20Embargo.pdf)

      Income group | Threshold | Average
      — | — | —
      Poorest 50% | $3,784 (and below) | $764
      Richest 10% | $37,249 | $103,605
      Richest 1% | $153,595 | $403,526
      Richest 0.1% | $528,125 | $1,685,606

      Most of Switzerland will be in the “Richest 10%” bucket and would all need a 90% decrease in emissions under this methodology to reach the target of 2.1 tons per person per year.