Carbon Brief's latest research roundup brings three stories this week. First, the international climate research database Project Cosmos officially launched, cataloging one point eight million academic papers and reports on climate science. The database reveals a significant geographic disparity: nearly half of the five hundred most-cited climate researchers work in US institutions, while experts from the global south account for only four percent. Women represent just ten percent of the most-cited authors. Meanwhile, at UN climate negotiations in Bonn last week, dozens of countries accused others of mounting coordinated attacks on climate science itself. India and Saudi Arabia specifically opposed proposals to fund research on scenarios where global warming temporarily overshoots one point five degrees Celsius before cooling. And a new analysis published in Nature Climate Change finds widening emissions inequality: the wealthiest ten percent of global consumers generate between one point seven and five point seven trillion dollars in annual environmental damage, while higher-income individuals are responsible for an even larger share of total greenhouse-gas emissions than previously thought.

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