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Mehr Muhammad Adeel Riaz and colleagues commented on the weak global value of authorship in 2022 in a report The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change. This letter not only describes the disparity in reporting, but also highlights the need to dissect climate change in detail to truly understand cause and effect.
The countries responsible for the highest carbon emissions are China, the US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, Iran, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. The top five countries on the list, together with the EU, account for 70 % of total global carbon emissions. The countries that have published the most scientific articles on climate change are the US, the UK, China, Australia, Germany, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Spain and India. It is impossible not to notice the overlap between these two lists.
