There’s a taskforce dreaming up radical climate solutions – and you can help
In this week’s newsletter: How you can have your say on the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force’s ideas to transform our environmentFast, fair funding for critical climate action is desperately needed, and that makes the drive for levies on polluters and the ultrarich perhaps the most exciting climate idea floating around right now.The Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, an independent group of experts set up after Cop28, has now set out 16 specific ideas for consultation that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year to fight global heating, from taxes on cryptocurrencies to flying.Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggestsClimate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist‘It’s like solving a murder’: who dumped 30 tonnes of rubbish on Lichfield?‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisisFormer world leaders seek $25bn levy on oil states’ revenues to pay for climate damageHow Trump is targeting wind and solar energy – and delighting big oil Continue reading...
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In this week’s newsletter: How you can have your say on the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force’s ideas to transform our environment
Fast, fair funding for critical climate action is desperately needed, and that makes the drive for levies on polluters and the ultrarich perhaps the most exciting climate idea floating around right now.
The Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, an independent group of experts set up after Cop28, has now set out 16 specific ideas for consultation that could raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year to fight global heating, from taxes on cryptocurrencies to flying.
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
‘It’s like solving a murder’: who dumped 30 tonnes of rubbish on Lichfield?
Former world leaders seek $25bn levy on oil states’ revenues to pay for climate damage
How Trump is targeting wind and solar energy – and delighting big oil Continue reading...