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Campaign report

Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%

20/11/2023

5 documents

136 pages long

Languages: English

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The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty and […]

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Briefing note

Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people

07/11/2022

5 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The world’s richest people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of carbon and, unlike ordinary people, 50% to 70% of their emissions result from their investments. New analysis of the investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year, more than a million times the […]

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Case study

Widening the Tax Base of Low-Income Countries: Taxing high-net-worth individuals in Uganda

22/10/2020

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study offers a compelling story of how-long term influencing and political will by government helped widen Uganda’s tax base and raise vital additional finance for poverty-busting public spending on the social sector. It demonstrates that it is practically and politically feasible to increase government revenues by increasing the tax take from the richest individuals […]

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Issue briefing

Wealth: Having it all and wanting more

19/01/2015

5 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance, and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to […]

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Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%

Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people

Widening the Tax Base of Low-Income Countries: Taxing high-net-worth individuals in Uganda

Wealth: Having it all and wanting more