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(viii) Data for country greenhouse gas emissions are from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Science. Gütschow, J.; Günther, A.; Pflüger, M. (2023): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series v2.3.1 (1750-2021). zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5494497. Gütschow, J.; Jeffery, L.; Gieseke, R.; Gebel, R.; Stevens, D.; Krapp, M.; Rocha, M. (2016): The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 571-603, doi:10.5194/essd-8-571-2016.

(ix) GDP data is from World Development Indicators (WDI), The World Bank Group, http://data.worldbank.org/. Accessed 11 Aug 2023.

(x) Data for country social violations is from World Governance Indicators (WGI), The World Bank Group, http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/. Accessed 15 Jan 2022.

(xi) Data for Paris Alignment is available under open source terms from Science Based Targets, https://sciencebasedtargets.org/companies-taking-action.

(xii) Country data and scores include SDG Index data. Copyright Cambridge University Press, https://www.sdgindex.org/.