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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Matthew Taylor

Climate groups call for UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy

Protesters holding placards saying 'Pay up for the green new deal', 'Jim Ratcliffe pay up', and 'Denise Coates pay up'
The Pay Up campaign is backed by more than 20 civil society groups including Friends of the Earth, the National Education Union and Tax Justice UK. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

A growing number of climate groups are campaigning for the introduction of a wealth tax to ensure the transition to a sustainable economy is not done “on the backs of the poor”.

Last week campaigners from Green New Deal Rising staged a sit-in outside the Reform UK party’s London headquarters as part of a wave of protests targeting the offices, shops and private clubs of the super-rich across the UK.

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