{"id":349012,"date":"2025-10-31T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=349012"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:44:40","slug":"climate-inequality-report-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-inequality-report-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Inequality Report 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Recently, World Inequality Lab has released the Climate Inequality Report 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>About Climate Inequality Report 2025<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349013\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-349013\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-World-Inequality-Lab.jpg?resize=238%2C355&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-World-Inequality-Lab.jpg?resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-World-Inequality-Lab.jpg?w=529&amp;ssl=1 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; World Inequality Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The report <strong>reveals how wealth drives the climate crisis<\/strong>, and proposes new <strong>policy options<\/strong> to address it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Published by: <\/strong>It is published by the<strong> World Inequality Lab.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Key highlights of Report 2025<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Wealthy individuals <strong>fuel the climate crisis through their investments <\/strong>even more than through their consumption and lifestyles.<\/li>\n<li>The top 1% cause <strong>15%<\/strong> of global consumption-based emissions, while they account for <strong>41%<\/strong> of emissions linked to private capital ownership.<\/li>\n<li>Per capita emissions are <strong>75 times<\/strong> higher for a top 1% individual than for someone in the bottom 50% (consumption-based); this rises to <strong>680 times<\/strong> when based on asset ownership.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate change can deepen wealth inequality<\/strong>, while well-designed policies can help reduce it.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>top 1% <\/strong>could see their <strong>share of world wealth jump from 38% to 46% by 2050 <\/strong>if they own tomorrow\u2019s low-carbon assets.<\/li>\n<li>It is widely estimated that <strong>100 companies<\/strong> are responsible for <strong>71%<\/strong> of industrial GHG emissions since the Industrial Revolution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommendations<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It recommends a <strong>global ban on all new fossil fuel investments<\/strong> to stop adding fresh high-carbon assets to the economy.<\/li>\n<li>It proposes a <strong>financial investment tax on the carbon content of assets<\/strong>, so that portfolios with higher embedded emissions face higher taxes.<\/li>\n<li>It calls for <strong>major public investment in low-carbon infrastructure<\/strong> to accelerate the transition and support sustainable economic growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, World Inequality Lab has released the Climate Inequality Report 2025. About Climate Inequality Report 2025 The report reveals how wealth drives the climate crisis, and proposes new policy options to address it. Published by: It is published by the World Inequality Lab. Key highlights of Report 2025 Wealthy individuals fuel the climate crisis&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-inequality-report-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate Inequality Report 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1305,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-349012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-index-reports-bodies","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}