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- Jul 2023
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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In addition to their high GHG emissions from consumption, high-SES people have disproportionate climate influence through at least four non-consumer roles: as investors, as role models within their social networks and for others who observe their choices, as participants in organizations and as citizens seeking to influence public policies or corporate behaviour
- for: high-SES, 1%, W2W, inequality, carbon inequality, elites, billionaires, millionaires, leverage point
- five high carbon emission areas of high-SES, HNWI, VHNWI
- consumption
- investor
- role model within social networks
- participants in organizations
- citizens seeking to influence public policies or corporate behavior
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We focus on individuals and households with high socioeconomic status (SES; henceforth, high-SES people) because they have generated many of the problems of fossil fuel dependence that affect the rest of humanity.
- for: high-SES, 1%, W2W, inequality, carbon inequality, elites, billionaires, millionaires, leverage point
- definition
- high-SES
- high socioeconomic status
- equivalent to high net worth individual (HNWI) or
- very high net worth individual (VHNWI)
- high-SES
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www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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- for: inequality, 1%, carbon inequality private jets, carbon emissions, patriotic millionaires
- title
- He’s a millionaire with a private jet. But now he’s selling it for the sake of the environment
- source
- date
- July 13, 2023
- Stephen Prince, vice-chair of the Patriotic Millionaires – a group of wealthy Americans pushing for higher taxes which also contributed to the report – is giving up his Cessna 650 Citation III.
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