Canada Put a Price on Carbon and Rebated Billions Back to Canadians. Here’s What Worked and Here’s What Went Wrong.
Carbon rebates, also known as carbon dividends, are regular payments made to households funded by carbon pricing revenue. This policy has been a win for both the environment and the Canadian people—so why has it won so little public support? By Olivier Bradley.
As part of Feasta's activity in the Wellbeing Economy Ireland Hub, we co-organised and participated in this webinar on the role of Cultural Creatives in imagining a new economy. It featured a wide range of artists from around the island of Ireland.
Anne-Marie Fuller and Caroline Whyte from Feasta spoke about the Wellbeing Economy and international financial flows at this hybrid event, organised by the WEAll Ireland Hub and Cloughjordan Co-housing Cooperative.
The Yellow Vests Come to America
"Carbon dividends, and universal basic income, could provide a democratic form of populism that would stave off the move toward authoritarianism that is rising not just in America but around the world," writes Mike Sandler.
Beyond COP29: Is Cap and Share the Future of Climate Finance?
The COP29 proposal to use private investment to bolster climate finance is both unethical and impractical. Caroline Whyte suggests an alternative approach.
Podcast: Health and the Wellbeing Economy
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Dr Tony Holohan, the former Chief Medical Officer of Ireland and the director of the new One Health Centre at University College Dublin.
This side event at the COP29 focused on systems that can bring about justice and sustainability in climate policies. It was co-hosted by Feasta and the European Youth Forum, and participants included Equal Right, the European Economic and Social Committee and Oxfam International.
From housing and healthcare crises to insufficient climate and biodiversity protections, the impacts of short-term thinking are clear and alarming. Feasta/WEAll Ireland Hub, in partnership with Coalation2030, hosted an online discussion on the important topic of intergenerational fairness on Tuesday, November 19th 2024.
Dr Sarah Browne of Trinity Business School discusses the reasons why she moved away from teaching 'mainstream' marketing, ways in which academia can help to bring about a wellbeing economy, and her impressions of the Rethinking Growth conference. Interview with Seán Ó Conláin.
On September 24, Mike Sandler, Chair of Feasta, presented these slides as part of a NYC Climate Week panel hosted by Equal Right and others at the XX School of Social Work in New York City.
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