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The cost of ditching fossil fuels falls mostly on the rich
In the US, aggressive climate action could strand $350 billion of fossil fuel assets—two-thirds of the losses would fall on the wealthiest top 10%.
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How the rich could stop climate change
The global clean energy transition will not come cheap, but billionaires could do much more to finance this change.
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Nebraska takes steps to fight climate change alongside Biden's new executive order
The Biden administration is taking a new step to fight climate change with an executive order aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 electric.
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Living in a world in which nature has already lost
In “Second Nature,” Nathaniel Rich offers a tour of the ways humans have both conquered the natural world and been overwhelmed by the unintended consequences.
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Protection for the rich, retreat for the poor
How the United States' implementation of climate change adaptation programs is exacerbating inequality and breeding a new form of climate gentrification.
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Adair Turner: The rich world must take responsibility for its carbon footprint
China and other developing economies are instinctively wary of developed-country proposals to combine domestic carbon prices with "carbon tariffs" imposed on imported goods. But such policies may be the only way for rich-world consumers to take responsibility for their carbon footprint in other countries.
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Carbon offsetting may increase pollution as experts warn the rich: 'You can't buy a clean conscience'
Carbon offsetting schemes may actually increase pollution and harm local communities, studies have shown, as UN environmental experts called for the rich to stop buying credits ‘in exchange for a clean conscience.
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