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Climate finance and wealth tax: These reforms are being pushed by the G20

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Published: July 30th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Brasiliens Finanzminister Fernando Haddad treibt im Rahmen der G20 Pläne für eine globale Milliardärssteuer voran
The finance ministers of the G20 countries want to tax billionaires more heavily, but were unable to agree on the plans of Brazil’s Finance Minister Fernando Haddad for a global minimum tax.

According to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, states worldwide need to invest three trillion US dollars annually in the energy transition and the decarbonization of their economies. This would be far more than what is currently being invested. „Neglecting climate change and biodiversity loss is not only bad environmental policy. It is bad economic policy,“ Yellen said at the conclusion of the G20 finance ministers’ meeting.

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