https://www.scmp.com/rss/507120/feed Eva Joly is a member of the Independent Commission for International Corporate Tax Reform (ICRICT) and a former Member of the European Parliament, where she was vice-chair of the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Evasion and Fraud. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A “code red for humanity”. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres could not have summed up better the chill that grips everyone when reading the report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last month. Natural disasters, water shortages, forced migrations, malnutrition, pandemics, species extinction – it is scientifically established that life on Earth as we know it will be inescapably transformed by climate disruption when children born in 2021 turn 30. This is already... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3147021/how-global-tax-reform-can-boost-climate-change-fight-and-create?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3147021/how-global-tax-reform-can-boost-climate-change-fight-and-create?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:45:18 +0000 Remember the “world after the pandemic”? The Covid-19 crisis has caused mourning in hundreds of thousands of families and brought the world’s economies to their knees; but by forcing more than half of humanity to stop, it has also forced us to think, to dream, of a fairer, more egalitarian, greener world. In that world, we would recognise the importance of quality public services, having seen health workers fighting heroically against the virus and teachers trying to keep in contact with their... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100202/tax-evaders-can-help-foot-worlds-bill-coronavirus-spending?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100202/tax-evaders-can-help-foot-worlds-bill-coronavirus-spending?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:30:19 +0000