How to fund climate justice: launch of the new Cap and Share Climate Alliance, Aug 10
Feasta is joining with Equal Right and five other NGOs on three continents to launch this initiative for a fair and global fossil fuel phase-out.
Project-Related Documents
Bank Failures and the Debt Ceiling: A Double Teachable Moment for Ecological Monetary Theory
'On his recent visit to Ireland, President Biden said he felt like he was “home.” By giving a speech like President Higgins just gave, and setting up an Ecological Monetary Reform Study Committee, he could prove it,' writes Mike Sandler.
Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing
"Environmental Justice advocates argue that current carbon pricing programs place undue burdens of combustion-related diseases on low-income communities and communities of color, and this is true," writes Brent Ranalli, who goes on to propose some potential solutions.
Another Teachable Moment from the Return of the Trillion Dollar Coin
"As the Vatican learned with Galileo, the truth has a way of resurfacing. Be on the lookout for debt-free, interest-free money, coming soon to a country-needlessly-plunged-into-recession-by-austerity near you," writes Mike Sandler.
COP-27 Reflections: Loss and Damage, and Cap and Share
"The creation of a Loss and Damage Fund (although with no actual funding in it yet) may provide some needed relief to impacted countries. But it does not address the cause, an economic system dependent on fossil fuel combustion and driven by an infinite-economic-growth mindset and institutions", writes Mike Sandler.
Phasing out fossil fuels, supporting climate justice: discussion paper and event video
A proposal by Feasta’s Climate Group to expand the existing Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance in order to accelerate a phase-out of the extraction of fossil fuels globally, while providing significant climate finance to the Global South.
