Equal Right's executive director Laura Bannister, and our international advisory board member Sarath Davala, Chair of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) have co-authored the Club of Rome's new Deep Dive paper titled, "Unconditional cash transfers and the five turnarounds: beneficiaries' perspective."
The paper explores what happens to human well-being when unconditional, periodic, universal, individual cash transfers are made directly to the people. This September, in Derna, Libya, a wall of water taller than the palm trees ripped through the city at more than 120 kilometers per hour. More than 4,000 people died and a further 8,000 are still missing. Many survivors are crammed into crumbling buildings, facing winter without basic necessities after everything they owned was washed out to sea. In the first few weeks following the disaster, aid was relatively abundant, but now other crises have taken center stage, and there is a sense that the world has moved on.
In late November, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) will be launched in Dubai. Coming at the end of a year which broke multiple heat records, the event is supposed to set the stage for a major push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and boost climate change adaptation globally.
But ahead of the conference, there have already been warnings from climate activists and civil society that unless there is a marked change in the approach to climate policies, COP28 could fail to deliver any meaningful progress. Carbon tax for global justice: ‘cap and share’ as a progressive alternative for taxing fossil fuels26/10/2023
In mid June 2022, farmers across Pakistan gazed out across thriving fields of rice, maize and mung beans, looking forward to bringing in the harvest in a few months’ time. Then the floods began: nearly Photo: Activists protest the under-funding of Loss and Damage at COP28. By Mídia NINJA
We have changed our name - welcome to our new-look website based around our new name, 'Equal Right'.
As the one percent of the world once again meet in Bonn for the annual climate ritual of setting the 28th Conference Of Parties (COP28), the 99% remain in their communities without a voice or a seat at the table.
On Saturday 15th October a coalition of more than 200 social justice organisations from across the world joined the G77, China and the Africa Group at the United Nations in demanding a UN tax convention to tackle elite tax avoidance and foster international cooperation on tax matters.
The most obvious solution to the climate emergency is to phase out the extraction of fossil fuels. Our latest podcast episode explores how this can be done in a way that supports climate justice. We welcome as a guest Rahul Basu from The Future We Need. Listen now by searching for Act Global on your usual podcast player or listen on our website here.
Today we are delighted to launch our brand new podcast, Act Global. It's an upbeat economics podcast that explores real workable solutions for global justice. We're aiming to produce one episode per month and include guests from around the world who are working for the change.
You can listen to all episodes on our website here or search for Act Global on your usual podcast player. Five years ago this month, Paul Harnett and I made French onion soup for 100 people (Paul chopped so many onions he had blisters from the knife). It was served up in the lunch break at our inaugural conference, which was the first in the world to explore the potential of making basic income truly universal.
In the run up to that event we went to a seminar and Paul got talking to one of the speakers. When he said where he came from, she replied, "World basic income - is that even a thing?" Five years on, it's time to consider whether we've made it 'a thing' and what needs to happen to make that 'thing' even bigger. |
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