{"id":666863,"date":"2026-10-27T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666863\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:00:12","slug":"super-rich-responsible-for-major-share-of-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666863\/","title":{"rendered":"Super rich responsible for major share of pollution."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The super rich in society are responsible for a major share of carbon pollution.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to new research from Oxfam Ireland, who claim ordinary people are paying the price for the world\u2019s climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Data published ahead of the COP31 summit in Turkey reveals the world\u2019s richest 8 million people are responsible for more carbon pollution than the poorest 3.5 billion combined.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Oxfam Ireland Jim Clerkin, says regular people are suffering the most\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NEWSTALK202610270010.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NEWSTALK202610270010.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The super rich in society are responsible for a major share of carbon pollution. That\u2019s according to new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-666863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}