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By Richard Lockhart in Edinburgh The investments of the world’s 125 wealthiest people produce the same amount of CO2 as the whole of France, while each of them emits a million times more greenhouse gases (GHGs) than the average person. A new report from Oxfam found that billionaires’ investments create an average of 3m tonnes per year per person of CO2, compared with 2.76 tpy per person for the bottom 90% of humanity, and found that an average of 14% of their investments were in polluting industries such as energy and cement. “These few billionaires together have ‘investment emissions’ that eq…