World leaders should aggressively reduce the carbon footprint of the wealthiest to curb the effects of climate change, experts have said.
It comes after a UN report found that the wealthiest 1 per cent pump more than twice times as much carbon into the atmosphere as the bottom 50 per cent.
It is hardly the first time that wealthy figures have been accused of driving climate change with their lavish lifestyle choices.
Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry and Leonardo DiCpario were among a slew of well-heeled celebrities criticsed for attending a Google climate summit in Italy last year - arriving on private jets and yachts that left an estimated 800-tonne carbon footprint.
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