The world’s wealthiest 0.1 percent, a group of 8 million people, emit more CO2 than nearly half of the global population. One super-rich person contributes nearly 400 times more to the current extreme weather conditions than someone from the poorest 50 percent of the global population. And while they are causing climate-related disasters, they are also increasingly profiting from them, Oxfam said in a report published on Tuesday.