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A multi-billion dollar question: What good can come from taxing oil and gas corporations for climate damages?
As storms, floods, fires, and droughts are hitting us more frequently and with greater intensity around the world, the costs of the climate crisis are going up significantly. Bold taxes or fines on oil and gas corporations would help to raise vital revenues.
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Stakes high as G20 ministers miss opportunity to pursue solidarity, wealth tax
A meeting of G20 Finance Ministers has failed to deliver a key signal of solidarity as ongoing economic turmoil led to difficult talks in Washington D.C. and slowed progress on critical reforms to tax the world’s super-rich.
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Forbes 2025 Billionaires List: extreme wealth soars while the planet pays the price
Taxes are the backbone of public services, from education and healthcare to emergency response and sustainable development. Yet, loopholes, corporate tax breaks, and tax havens allow the ultra-rich to contribute far less than their fair share.
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5 reasons to watch or listen to Greenpeace’s SystemShift podcast
With the SystemShift podcast, we explore how to move from a world that serves the economy to an economy that serves people and the planet.
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How can I think of the planet when I can’t even afford the rent?
When paying the rent, finding a decent job, or putting food on the table are at the top of your concerns, climate change seems to be something for somebody else to solve, isn’t it?
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A seat at the table remains unoccupied without a seat on the bus
The journey to empowerment, leadership, and economic independence begins in public spaces, on buses, and in metros—places that should enable freedom, not restrict it.
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Buses are free for women in Delhi: What can the world learn from it?
To commemorate International Women’s Day, the SystemShift, a Greenpeace podcast that explores how we can move from a world that serves the economy to an economy that works for people and the planet, launched a new episode with the extraordinary model of Delhi, India, where women are passing from not stepping outside home to using…
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From Davos to G20: It’s time to tax the super-rich for a green and just future
In January, Greenpeace activists sent a clear message at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: #TaxTheSuperRich to fund a green and just future. This month, we are taking our demands for fair global tax rules to the G20 in South Africa, as the Finance Ministers meet for their first session.
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How could religious principles boost climate action?
With an estimated 84% of the world’s population identifying with a religious group, faith communities hold immense potential for mobilising action on climate change.
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G20 must tax the super-rich to fund a green and just future
G20 leaders convening at the 1st Finance and Central Bank Ministerial Meeting must maintain momentum towards effective taxation of the world’s super-rich and support an inclusive platform for international tax negotiations at the UN.