Rich 1% - 15%

Discover the impact of extreme wealth on our climate – The 1% are responsible for 15% of total greenhouse gas emissions. How can we make them pay?

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• Petition: Make Rich Polluters Pay 387504
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• Leading by example: how the rich and powerful can inspire more climate action - Conversation 25.04.25 466757
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• Documentary: Climate change and the rich - DW 07.02.23 362926
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• Opinion: Time to make the rich pay for climate change - Energy Monitor 12.01.23 362935
• Super-rich’s carbon investment emissions ‘equivalent to whole of France’ - Guardian 07.11.22 362952
• SEI and Oxfam shine light on the “carbon inequality era” - SEI 06.12.22 362950
• Investments of 125 billionaires have the same carbon footprint as France, study finds - NPR 09.11.22 362953
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• Eat the Rich, Save the Planet - Medium 14.12.20 362934
• The world’s rich need to cut their carbon footprint by a factor of 30 to slow climate change, U.N. warns - Washington Post 09.12.20 362927
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• The Rich Get Richer Under Climate Change, 50 Years of Data Shows - Smithsonian Magazine 23.04.19 362942