Rich 10% - 52%
Discover the impact of extreme wealth on our climate – The rich 10% are responsible for 52% of total greenhouse gas emissions. How can we make them pay?
- Petition: Make Rich Polluters Pay 387505
- Exposing Private Money Fueling the Climate Crisis - GIJN 11.12.25 506142
- The surprising consensus on carbon fairness—and the self-deception undermining it. - Anthropocene 15.07.25 480276
- Two-thirds of global warming caused by world’s richest 10%, study finds - Aljazeera 07.05.25 471003
- The carbon perception gap in actual and ideal carbon footprints across wealth groups - Nature 04.07.25 480275
- OFFICIAL: the top 10% richest have more wealth than the REST OF US COMBINED - Canary 24.01.25 454446
- Biden Proposes Major Tax Increase on Fuel for Private Jets - CD 12.03.24 403055
- Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student tracking her private jet - Guardian 06.02.24 396679
- Audio: Superyachts and private jets: the carbon impact of the ‘polluter elite’ - Science Weekly 21.11.23 384702
- Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most - Guardian 21.11.23 384697
- The jet set: 200 celebrities’ aircraft have flown for combined total of 11 years since 2022 - Guardian 21.11.23 384705
- CONFRONTING CARBON INEQUALITY - Oxfam 9/20 *.pdf 359312
- Rich Americans Have Higher Carbon Footprints Than Other Wealthy People - Scientific American 08.12.21 362960
- The richest 10% produce about half of greenhouse gas emissions. They should pay to fix the climate - Guardian 07.12.21 362957
- The lifestyle of the richest 10% is the solution to climate change - Linked in 30.07.19 362961
- Study: Richest 10% are causing climate change - Business Insider 03.12.15 362959
- World’s richest 10% produce half of carbon emissions while poorest 3.5 billion account for just a tenth - Oxfam 02.12.15 362958
- World’s richest 10 percent responsible for half of CO2, report says - Al Jazeera 02.12.15 362962