Who Owns The Climate Crisis?

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We re experiencing the hottest global temperatures ever recorded For millions of us the climate crisis is already hitting hard And we need to know we must know – WHO are the beneficial owners of the climate crisis It s surprisingly difficult to find out Featuring Franziska Mager Senior Researcher and Advocacy Lead Climate Inequalities Tax Justice Network Dario Kenner Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and author of the book Carbon Inequality Victor Galaz of the Stockholm Resilience Centre Peter Ringstad of Tax Justice Norway Andres Knobel Lead Researcher Beneficial Ownership Tax Justice Network George Monbiot Environmental campaigner and journalist Kenya s President William Ruto Hosted and produced by Naomi Fowler of the Tax Justice Network Transcript of the show some is automated https taxjustice net wp-content uploads 2023 07 Transcript Taxcast July 23 pdf All the Taxcasts are available here where you can also subscribe https www thetaxcast com Further reading Beneficial ownership and fossil fuels lifting the lid on who benefits https taxjustice net 2023 06 30 beneficial-ownership-and-fossil-fuels-lifting-the-lid-on-who-benefits Delivering climate justice using the principles of tax justice a guide for climate justice advocates https taxjustice net wp-content uploads 2023 06 Policy-brief-climate-justice 2206 pdf Carbon Majors Report https cdn cdp net cdp-production cms reports documents 000 002 327 original Carbon-Majors-Report-2017 pdf Links to Dario Kenner s work The Polluter Elite Database https whygreeneconomy org the-polluter-elite-database Carbon Inequality the role of the richest in climate change https uk bookshop org p books carbon-inequality-the-role-of-the-richest-in-climate-change-dario-kenner 2920056 ean 9780367727666 Lobbying and other tactics of big oil companies to delay the transition away from fossil fuels https doi org 10 1016 j erss 2021 102049 Why we need to look at how global oil and gas industry lobbies G20 governments and how this is slowing progress https www climatechangenews com 2021 11 16 oil-gas-avoided-censure-glasgow-26th-time-lets-not-make-27 Post-war reconstruction involved taxing the richest https theconversation com post-war-reconstruction-involved-taxing-richest-it-could-be-a-model-for-building-a-low-carbon-economy-137717 White knights or horsemen of the apocalypse Prospects for Big Oil to align emissions with a 1 5 C pathway https www sciencedirect com science article pii S2214629621001420 Carbon Billionaires Oxfam report https policy-practice oxfam org resources carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446 Cereal crops decimated by Europe s heatwave https www thegrocer co uk sourcing cereal-crops-decimated-by-europes-heatwave 681361 article I thought fossil fuel firms could change I was wrong https www aljazeera com opinions 2023 7 6 i-thought-fossil-fuel-firms-could-change-i-was-wrong Stockholm Resilience Centre the hidden environmental consequences of tax havens https www stockholmresilience org research research-news 2018-08-13-the-hidden-environmental-consequences-of-tax-havens html New study raises red flags on tax haven role in environmental destruction https www icij org inside-icij 2018 08 new-study-raises-red-flags-on-tax-haven-role-in-environmental-destruction New data exposes the links between tax havens deforestation and illegal fishing https www su se english archive-news research-news-archive new-data-exposes-the-links-between-tax-havens-deforestation-and-illegal-fishing-1 396018 Click here to visit this podcast episode