Yaaaaass!
Yaaaaass!
FYI https://www.iisd.org/gsi/ https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=e1210
My own sense is that the typical world leader would love to save their beachfront properties, but lacks the skills to sell the necessary sacrifices when competing with aspiring democratic leaders. Environmentalism needs a populist of its own. Ms. Thunberg did her best, but this really calls for a Lincoln more than a D'ark.
This is not the full story. To balance the fuel tax increase, the wealth tax for the rich was eliminated. Who knows what would have happened if it wasn't the case.
Last Christmas I was looking for a good climate charity to donate to. I was disappointed to find that GiveWell [2], which does great reviews of charity effectiveness, found a lot effective charities in public health and one in poverty reduction, but nothing in the area of climate. It's very frustrating.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/technology/jeff-bezos-cli... [2] https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
(It's also worth noting that addressing global poverty is a pro-climate activity, in addition to be a moral imperative. Its climate-effects may be more long-term than is relevant, though.)
[0] https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/research/other-causes/climat...
They will not see immediate results, but the change in a few decades with the new mindset etc will be enormous.
There's a similar analysis by Let's Fund: https://lets-fund.org/clean-energy/
From asking a few folks in climate-related academia, they seem to support all of these recommendations