Are improvements to green technologies, like better batteries and more efficient solar panels, enough on their own to tackle climate change? Unfortunately not. Our behaviour and lifestyles must change too.
Rolling out the solutions to climate change (electric vehicles, solar power, heat pumps) will require confronting the enormous gulf in wealth and resources separating the richest and poorest people – both within countries and between them.
In our recent article for Nature Climate Change, we explain why inequality remains one of the biggest barriers to the net zero transition.
The very rich are very big polluters
Political solutions are limited
Carbon taxes could be more effective
Green options aren’t in reach for all
People need free time to go green
Public services cannot meet their potential