Essay: Six ways inequality holds back climate action
Against the backdrop of the World Economic Forum taking place this week, EMMA GARNETT and CHARLOTTE A KUKOWSKI explain, in an article first published on The Conversation, why inequality remains one of the biggest barriers to the net zero transition…
Just eight of the world’s richest have more wealth than the poorest 3.6 billion
Just eight of the world’s richest men have more wealth than the poorest half of the global population – some 3.6 billion people, according to a new analysis from Oxfam. A briefing paper from Oxfam, An economy for the 99%, says that while since 2015, the world’s richest one per cent of people have owned more […]