, Oct. 29 -- Ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research reveals that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are rapidly exhausting the world's remaining carbon budget, the amount of CO2 that can be emitted to avoid climate catastrophe.

The research also details how billionaires are using their political and economic influence to keep humanity hooked on fossil fuels to maximize their private profit.

The report, Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster, presents extensive new updated data and analysis which finds that a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year.

If everyone emitted like th...