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