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The great carbon divide

The Guardian investigates who is most responsible for the emissions that are driving the escalating climate crisis, and what to do about carbon inequality

24 November 2023

  • Private jets parked at the Swiss air force base in Duebendorf.

    The Guardian view on the carbon divide: climate policies must target the private jet set

    Editorial: Noticing massive historical and geographical disparities in carbon emissions is not enough. Big polluters must be stopped

23 November 2023

  • Adam Tooze

    The climate emergency really is a new type of crisis – consider the ‘triple inequality’ at the heart of it

    Adam Tooze
  • Kate Soper

    Consumerism is the path to planetary ruin, but there are other ways to live

    Kate Soper

22 November 2023

  • Thomas Picketty

    Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty

  • Brazil-15 The "most famous photo" of inequality in Brazil: Paraisopolis, São Paulo. Johnny Miller Unequal Scenes

    Who are the polluter elite and how can we tackle carbon inequality?

  • Detail of the hand on the trunk of a tree

    ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide

  • Tom Haines-Doran

    Britain’s addiction to cars is built on a financial house of cards

    Tom Haines-Doran

21 November 2023

  • Superyacht illustration

    ‘I cannot stress too much about it’: Monaco yacht buyers shrug off climate concerns

  • First Dog on the Moon

    Who is the world’s worst carbon foot prince? We name and shame!

    First Dog on the Moon
  • Composite

    Ad industry grapples with role selling consumption in climate crisis

  • From left; Rupert Murdoch, Mick Jagger and Lawrence Stroll.

    The jet set: 200 celebrities’ aircraft have flown for combined total of 11 years since 2022

  • ‘They make it so hard to do the right thing’: New Orleanians battle exorbitant energy bills with few alternatives

  • Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most

    Roger Harding

  • Superyachts and private jets: the carbon impact of the ‘polluter elite’ – podcast

20 November 2023

  • Collage of black and white photos of a dog eating out of a bowl, a sports car and chefs working in a kitchen with a green neon background

    Restaurants, pets and holidays: how UK’s well-off have outsize carbon footprints

  • Revealed: The huge climate impact of the middle classes

    Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes

  • Rebecca Solnit

    Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Elon Musk illustration

    Elon Musk was once an environmental hero: is he still a rare green billionaire?

  • Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds

  • The great carbon divide

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