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3 weeks ago | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Pablo Rosado
A breakdown of the sources of many air pollutants that damage our health and ecosystems. Millions of people die prematurely from air pollution every year. This problem has existed since humans started burning materials for fuel — first wood and biomass, then fossil fuels. But it’s an environmental and public health problem that we can make progress on.
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1 month ago | 
climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo |Hannah Ritchie |Max Roser |Pablo Rosado
Claims by wealthy nations that their new emissions reduction targets for 2035 are compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5C have been questioned by experts concerned about fairness.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Pablo Rosado
In today’s Data Insight, we’re sharing a behind-the-scenes look at a part of our work we rarely talk about, but that is crucial in contributing to a more accurate understanding of the world. We work with hundreds of datasets from many different sources. To check their quality, we’ve built in-house tools that flag unusual patterns, helping us spot when something seems off. Even in high-quality datasets, occasional errors can slip through.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | countryby Hannah Ritchie |Hannah Ritchie |Max Roser |Pablo Rosado
Many of us want an overview of how much energy our country consumes, where it comes from, and if we’re making progress on decarbonizing our energy mix. This page provides the data for your chosen country across all of the key metrics on this topic. In the selection box above you can also add or remove additional countries and they will appear on all of the charts on this page. This allows you to compare specific countries you might be interested in, and measure progress against others.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Pablo Rosado
Around 90% of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions come from fossil fuels and industrial processes such as cement production. The other 10% comes from land use change, primarily carbon released from trees and vegetation due to deforestation. Fossil fuels are also the biggest source of emissions at the national level in most countries across the world. But there are a few exceptions.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Hannah Ritchie |Pablo Rosado
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people If we want to reduce the risks of disasters, we need to track where they’re happening; what types of events they are; their human and economic impacts; and how these trends change over time. High-quality data helps us see patterns in the data on factors such as increased resilience, climate change, and humanitarian response.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | countryby Hannah Ritchie |Hannah Ritchie |Max Roser |Pablo Rosado
Many of us want an overview of how much energy our country consumes, where it comes from, and if we’re making progress on decarbonizing our energy mix. This page provides the data for your chosen country across all of the key metrics on this topic. In the selection box above you can also add or remove additional countries and they will appear on all of the charts on this page. This allows you to compare specific countries you might be interested in, and measure progress against others.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Pablo Rosado
The chart shows how incomes are spread in several countries in different world regions. The data comes from the excellent Luxembourg Income Study. Blue points show the monthly after-tax income of someone who falls just inside the richest 10% of their country's population. Red points show the income of someone who falls just inside the poorest 10%. To allow for comparisons, all incomes are shown in international dollars, which account for differences in cost of living across countries.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Pablo Rosado
Most electoral democracies are younger than the oldest people who live in them. The chart shows that almost two dozen democracies are younger than 18 — as young as the children in these countries. Others are only as old as their young adults. This is based on data from Regimes of the World. In these younger democracies, most people have experienced life under authoritarian rule, and older people lacked democratic political rights for most of their lives.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
ourworldindata.org | Hannah Ritchie |Pablo Rosado |Max Roser
Metals and minerals have played a crucial role in building the modern world. These materials are essential in construction and manufacturing, from buildings and bridges to cars and electronics. Critical minerals like lithium, copper, and cobalt will play an increasingly important role in the energy transition as countries move away from fossil fuels towards clean energy.
