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Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them.
- 30% of the world’s CO₂ emissions have a carbon price. What we pay for something in a shop often doesn’t reflect its true cost. Producing goods causes damage through carbon emissions that drive climate change, but the receipts for that damage rarely show up in the price. The
- Morocco now gets almost a quarter of its electricity from renewables, but still relies heavily on coal. Renewables supplied around 6% of Morocco’s electricity in 2000; by 2025, that share was four times as high. That’s what the chart shows: the growing share of electricity
- It’s easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime. Considering how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different it could be in a few years or decades. Read more in the article by @MaxCRoser: ourworldindata.org/technology-lon…
- How close is the world to eradicating guinea worm disease? Guinea worm disease, also known as “dracunculiasis”, is a painful and debilitating parasitic infection. The guinea worm’s larvae can invade a person’s stomach and intestines when they drink contaminated water, such as
