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Champagne Curve Shows More Consumption Does Not Improve Lives (opens the original)
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Does improving people’s lives require ever-higher carbon emissions? François Gemenne, professor at HEC Paris and a lead author of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, joins Daniel Brown to discuss why climate disasters do not automatically produce action - and why presenting the transition as a burden can deepen climate fatigue. He explains the “Champagne Curve”, identified in his latest research: once countries reach a very high level of human development, additional carbon consumption no longer
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