CLIMATE EQUALITY : A Planet for the 99%

Event hosted by the LSE International Inequalities Institute, Oxfam, Stockholm Environment Institute and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity on Tuesday 4 June 2024

The super-rich are burning our world. The world confronts twin crises; climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions.

Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. If no action is taken, the richest will continue to burn through the carbon we have left to use while keeping the global temperature below the safe limit of 1.5°C. This threatens any chance of ending poverty and achieving equality.

The world needs an equal transformation. Only a radical reduction in inequality, transformative climate action and fundamentally shifting our economic goals as a society can deliver wellbeing for all within a livable planet.

Is equal transformation possible? What does it entail and why is it fundamental to addressing the climate and inequality crisis? And what are the consequences when such transformation is not pursued?

This event explored these questions, featuring some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers:

• Madhumitha Ardhanari, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity
• Dr Fadhel Kaboub, Associate professor of economics at Denison University (on leave), and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity
• Dr Sivan Kartha, Equitable Transitions Program Director at SEI US

Moderated by: Nafkote Dabi is the Climate Change Policy Lead at Oxfam International

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