Topic: Inequality
‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn
Report / 19th January 2026The world saw a record number of billionaires created last year, with a collective wealth of $18.3tn (£13.7tn), while global efforts stalled in the fight against poverty and hunger.
World’s richest 1% have brown through their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026 in just 10 days
Report / 13th January 2026The world’s richest 1% have exhausted their annual carbon budget – the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while staying within 1.5 degrees of warming – only ten days into the year, according to new analysis from Oxfam.
500 richest people gained record $2.2 trillion in 2025, fueling calls for wealth tax
News / 2nd January 2026Led by Big Tech billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Elon Musk, the world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective wealth in 2025.
Petition signers want Elon Musk to be ‘the richest man in town’ this Christmas
Blog / 16th December 2025... by giving nearly half of his $500 billion fortune to the children of the world.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Report / 10th December 2025Just 0.001% of the world’s population control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to the latest World Inequality Report 2026.
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Article / 10th December 2025S poglabljanjem ekonomske krize je najpomembnejša odgovornost vlad preoblikovati naše politične in ekonomske sisteme tako, da nihče ne bo umrl zaradi lakote. Toda to se ne bo nikoli zgodilo brez neprimerljivo množične podpore javnosti.
Where’s our outrage for the world’s hungry, dying poor?
Article / 9th December 2025The retreat from global development by wealthy nations is an insult to the founding vision of the United Nations. But the real problem is that so few people are standing behind the cause of sharing the world’s resources to end hunger and poverty.
G20 committee says world is facing an inequality emergency
News / 10th November 2025The G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts said the world is facing an inequality emergency.
Uneven ground: Inequality and planetary health
Article / 22nd August 2025How do we promote human wellbeing while also safeguarding our planet? To achieve both, we have no option but to drastically reduce inequality, argues Kate Pickett.
Inequality worsens planetary heating
Article / 12th August 2025The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening disparities, especially between the rich and others, both nationally and internationally.