Value of indigenous and local knowledge for nature-based solutions for water management.

Value of indigenous and local knowledge for nature-based solutions for water management.</p

Five Mechanisms through which epistemic injustices can occur.

Five Mechanisms through which epistemic injustices can occur.</p

The role of power and knowledge in the design of NbS.

The role of power and knowledge in the design of NbS.</p

KEIN Framework applied to GCF Proposal FP056: Scaling up climate resilient water management practices for vulnerable communities in La Mojana.

KEIN Framework applied to GCF Proposal FP056: Scaling up climate resilient water management practices for vulnerable communities in La Mojana.</p

Universal basic income and inclusive capitalism: consequences for sustainability

Over the past forty years, income growth for the middle and lower classes has stagnated, while the economy (and with it, economic inequality) has grown significantly. Early automation, the decline of labor unions, changes in corporate taxation, the financialization and globalization of the economy, deindustrialization in the U.S. and many OECD countries, and trade have contributed to these trends. However, the transformative roles of more recent automation and digital technologies/artificial intelligence (AI) are now considered by many as additional and potentially more potent forces undermining the ability of workers to maintain their foothold in the economy. These drivers of change are intensifying the extent to which advancing technology imbedded in increasingly productive real capital is driving productivity. To compound the problem, many solutions presented by industrialized nations to environmental problems rely on hyper-efficient technologies, which if fully implemented, could further advance the displacement of well-paid job opportunities for many. While there are numerous ways to address economic inequality, there is growing interest in using some form of universal basic income (UBI) to enhance income and provide economic stability. However, these approaches rarely consider the potential environmental impact from the likely increase in aggregate demand for goods and services or consider ways to focus this demand on more sustainable forms of consumption. Based on the premise that the problems of income distribution and environmental sustainability must be addressed in an integrated and holistic way, this paper considers how a range of approaches to financing a UBI system, and a complementary market solution based on an ownership-broadening approach to inclusive capitalism, might advance or undermine strategies to improve environmental sustainability. Keywords: universal basic income (UBI); effective demand; inequality; environment; sustainability; inclusive capitalism; binary economics; capital ownership; fuller employment; worker ownershi

Abordar la desigualdad: el primer paso más allá del COVID-19 y hacia la sostenibilidad

La pandemia del COVID-19 ha afectado a miles de millones de vidas en todo el mundo y ha revelado y agravado las desigualdades sociales y económicas que han surgido durante las últimas décadas. A medida que los gobiernos consideran las estrategias económicas y de salud pública para responder a la crisis, es fundamental también abordar las debilidades de sus sistemas económicos y sociales que inhibieron su capacidad para responder de manera integral a la pandemia. Estas mismas debilidades también han socavado los esfuerzos para promover la igualdad y la sostenibilidad. Este documento explora más de 30 intervenciones en las siguientes nueve categorías de cambio que tienen el potencial de abordar la desigualdad, brindan acceso a todos los ciudadanos a bienes y servicios esenciales, y avanzar en el progreso hacia la sostenibilidad: (1) Transferencias de ingresos y riqueza para facilitar un aumento equitativo del poder adquisitivo / ingresos disponibles; (2) ensanchamiento de la propiedad de los trabajadores y ciudadanos de los medios de producción y prestación de servicios, permitiendo a las empresas que la obtención de beneficios se distribuya de forma más equitativa; (3) cambios en el suministro de bienes y servicios esenciales para más ciudadanos; (4) cambios en la demanda de bienes y servicios más sostenibles deseados por la gente; (5) estabilizar y asegurar el empleo y la fuerza laboral; (6) reducir el desproporcionado poder de las corporaciones y los más ricos en el mercado y el sistema político a través de la expansión y la aplicación de la ley antimonopolio de modo que el dominio de unas pocas empresas en sectores críticos ya no prevalezca (7) provisión gubernamental de bienes y servicios esenciales como educación, atención médica, vivienda, alimentación y movilidad; (8) una reasignación del gasto público entre operaciones militares y necesidades sociales domésticas; y (9) suspender o reestructurar la deuda de los países emergentes y en desarrollo países. Cualquier intervención que se centre en hacer crecer la economía también debe ir acompañada de aquellos que compensan los compromisos resultantes para la salud, la seguridad y el medio ambiente del aumento consumo insostenible. Este documento compara e identifica las intervenciones que deben ser consideradas como un primer paso fundamental importante para ir más allá de la pandemia COVID-19 y hacia la sostenibilidad. En este sentido, proporciona un conjunto integral de estrategias que podrían promover avances hacia un componente del Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) 10 para reducir la desigualdad dentro de los países. Sin embargo, las intervenciones candidatas también se contrastan con los 17 ODS para revelar posibles áreas problemáticas/compensaciones que pueden necesitar una atención cuidadosa

Addressing Inequality: The First Step Beyond COVID-19 and Towards Sustainability

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted billions of lives across the world and has revealed and worsened the social and economic inequalities that have emerged over the past several decades. As governments consider public health and economic strategies to respond to the crisis, it is critical they also address the weaknesses of their economic and social systems that inhibited their ability to respond comprehensively to the pandemic. These same weaknesses have also undermined efforts to advance equality and sustainability. This paper explores over 30 interventions across the following nine categories of change that hold the potential to address inequality, provide all citizens with access to essential goods and services, and advance progress towards sustainability: (1) Income and wealth transfers to facilitate an equitable increase in purchasing power/disposable income; (2) broadening worker and citizen ownership of the means of production and supply of services, allowing corporate profit-taking to be more equitably distributed; (3) changes in the supply of essential goods and services for more citizens; (4) changes in the demand for more sustainable goods and services desired by people; (5) stabilizing and securing employment and the workforce; (6) reducing the disproportionate power of corporations and the very wealthy on the market and political system through the expansion and enforcement of antitrust law such that the dominance of a few firms in critical sectors no longer prevails; (7) government provision of essential goods and services such as education, healthcare, housing, food, and mobility; (8) a reallocation of government spending between military operations and domestic social needs; and (9) suspending or restructuring debt from emerging and developing countries. Any interventions that focus on growing the economy must also be accompanied by those that offset the resulting compromises to health, safety, and the environment from increasing unsustainable consumption. This paper compares and identifies the interventions that should be considered as an important foundational first step in moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and towards sustainability. In this regard, it provides a comprehensive set of strategies that could advance progress towards a component of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10 to reduce inequality within countries. However, the candidate interventions are also contrasted with all 17 SDGs to reveal potential problem areas/tradeoffs that may need careful attention