CDT policy library
The Climate Damages Tax: A guide to what it is and how it works (2024)
There is a price for heating up the planet. Currently it is borne to a vast extent by the populations affected by ever-intensifying climate impacts.
Lessons from COVID-19 for addressing loss and damage in vulnerable developing countries
This is the first in a series of 3 briefings under the banner: Unpacking Finance for Loss and Damage, produced by Stamp Out Poverty, Heinrich
UN report on Human Rights and a Sustainable Environment (2019)
Read the report on the climate crisis and human rights by David Boyd, UN special rapporteur on the environment and human rights. The report illustrates the
IPCC Special Report on 1.5'C of Global Warming
Read the Special Report on 1.5’C of Global Warming, published by the International Panel on Climate Change in 2018, that warns we have only twelve
Fossil Fuel Companies and Climate Denial
The big fossil fuel players – ExxonMobil, Shell and others – have known about climate change since the 1970s. But they’ve done their best to
How much profit to the big oil, coal and gas companies make? Bucketloads! They make this profit by outsourcing the true cost of their product
Climate Action Network submission to UNFCCC (2018)
Climate Action Network – an international network with more than 1,000 member organisations in 120 countries – featured the Climate Damages Tax in their recent
Just who are the big polluters? Groundbreaking research finds that 100 active fossil fuel producers including ExxonMobil, Shell, BHP Billiton and Gazprom are linked to
Ahead of the 2017 UN summit on climate change (COP23) more than sixty organisations committed to work with us toward establishing a Climate Damages Tax.
The Climate Damages Tax: A guide to what it is and how it works (2019)
Our original Climate Damages Tax report was launched in 2019 during COP24 in Katowice, Poland. The report outlines how a Climate Damages Tax on the fossil fuel industry
Richard Heede – Climatic Change, January 2014 This paper traces 63% of cumulative worldwide emissions of industrial CO2 and methane between 1751 and 2010 to 90 fossil fuel
Climate Finance: a tool-kit for assessing climate mitigation and adaptation funding mechanisms
Stephen Spratt and Christina Ashford, 2011. Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and Stamp Out Poverty
Developed countries have committed to raising $100 billion a year to help finance climate mitigation and adaptation activities in developing countries. Where will this money come from?
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