Economic development and the carbon intensity of human well-being

Andrew K. Jorgenson ()
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Andrew K. Jorgenson: University of Utah, Salt Lake City Utah 84112, USA

Nature Climate Change, 2014, vol. 4, issue 3, 186-189

Abstract: Economic development improves the conditions of human life, but at a cost to the natural environment. Research now estimates the relationship between economic development and the carbon intensity of human well-being—the ratio of anthropogenic carbon emissions to average life expectancy at birth—globally, over 40 years. Most of the countries studied, including African nations over recent decades, followed unsustainable paths of development.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2110

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