Part Five / What We Must Do Now

5.19 Decarbonization Requires Redistribution

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  1. 64 per cent … see climate change as a global emergency Flynn, C., et al., People’s Climate Vote: Results, United Nations Development Programme and the University of Oxford, 26 January 2021, https://www.undp.org/publications/peoples-climate-vote.

    The top 10 per cent of emitters Chancel, L., et al., World Inequality Report 2022, World Inequality Lab, 2022, https://wir2022.wid.world/.

    rose from around 9.5 per cent to 12 per cent Ibid.

    the poorest 50 per cent of the US population Ibid.

  2. the aviation fuel used by the rich Chancel, L., Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020)..

    a modest wealth tax … with a pollution top-up Chancel et al., World Inequality Report 2022.