Dario Kenner

Carbon Inequality

The Role of the Richest in Climate Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the role that the richest people's personal consumption plays in contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss, and it explores strategies for reducing the personal carbon footprint of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) in the United States, Japan, Germany, China, United Kingdom and France.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 134mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 194g
• ISBN-13: 9780367727666
• ISBN-10: 0367727668
• Artikelnr.: 60798846

Autorenporträt

Dario Kenner is a visiting fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute based at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. This book builds on his 2015 working paper Inequality of Overconsumption: the Ecological Footprint of the Richest, published by Anglia Ruskin University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: climate change and the role of the richest
1 The carbon footprint of luxury consumption
2 The investment emissions of the polluter elite
3 The polluter elite and moral responsibility
4 The decisive political influence of the polluter elite
5 Destabilising the polluter elite
Conclusions
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index