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In the recent debate about who should provide international climate finance (ICF) to developing countries on concessional terms, some have argued that the ultra-rich should cover a significant proportion of the associated costs. This would apply regardless of the climate responsibilities or level of development of the countries in which the ultra-rich reside. In this article, I examine whether the rich-pay-for-ICF proposal aligns with any reasonable viewpoint on climate justi

A roundtable discussion addressing the issue of carbon inequality, both across income groups and countries, and possible solutions, such as specific policies, systemic transformations and technological fixes. Online. Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Thursday, 22 January 2026, 12:30–2:00 pm (CET, Brussels time).

This article focuses on the climate change policies that are needed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the ultra-rich, primarily from superyachts, private jets, mega-mansions, and high-emission road vehicles. These are all goods for which demand is inelastic and therefore difficult to curb with Pigouvian policies. The article proposes a comparative analysis of the three main luxury-focused mitigation policies discussed in the literature: bans, luxury carbon taxation an

COP29 was supposed to hold developed countries to their climate justice responsibilities by committing them to an annual transfer of concess

In this article, I discuss whether, in addition to pricing emissions, we should prohibit a specific category of luxury emissions ...

What might a fair distribution of the NCQG burden entail? In light of this question, Fausto Corvino examines policies that shift the costs o

Trees Stock photos by Vecteezy: https://www.vecteezy.com/free-photos/trees Over the past three years, a number of philosophers and political theorists have revived the normative debate on subsistence versus luxury emissions. They have done so by offering a set of original arguments that are highly relevant to, among other things, climate change policy. The aim of this seminar series is to bring these people together to discuss these papers and to enrich the debate with contr