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In Canada, a wealth tax could raise $400 billion over the next ten years

What We Need Max Fawcett -
Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com After the City of Edmonton and its taxpayers gave him hundreds of millions of dollars to...

UN Tax Convention: Is Historic Opportunity at Risk of Failing?

What We Need Matti Kohonen -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net In late November, the UN General Assembly passed a landmark resolution signaling ...

Women’s economic empowerment is crucial to Canada’s strategies against gender-based violence

What We Need Michaela Mayer and Denna Berg -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org Victims of domestic violence often can’t afford to leave. Strategies need ...

Six ways to strengthen the circular economy

What We Need Ana Birliga Sutherland -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Mutually-reinforcing measures, plus finance and labour, are needed to bend a linear economy into a circle. The...

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

What We Need Sean Mowbray -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Eight years ago, Finland became the first country to adopt a national circular economy road...

Foundations for degrowth

What We Need Andrew Curry -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org There was an article in Nature from late 2022 on degrowth that got some sudden ...

How sleepy Quebec City became an economic tiger

What We Need Pierre Fortin and Mario Polèse -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org (Version française disponible ici) Strong social capital and astute local governance have made Quebec City the fastest-growing...

It only took 11 people and 60 days to build this 96 unit Lego-like apartment complex in Florida

What We Need Nate Berg -
Click here to view original web page at www.fastcompany.com With little more than a mallet, a glue gun, and a color-coded instruction manual, a team...

How Canadian courts are taking on climate change

What We Need Steve Lorteau and Andrew Green -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Courts around the world are increasingly being asked to determine whether governments and Crown corporations are...

As the world swims in plastic, here’s a place to start: Ban the two most toxic

What We Need Alden Wicker -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Anti-plastic campaigners have achieved limited initial success in passing bans based on the toxic health effects...

Geothermal is an overlooked climate solution that could be about to take off

What We Need Amanda Stephenson -
Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com It's clean, renewable, and right there below our feet, but geothermal energy has largely remained undeveloped...

A decade of stopping deforestation: How the palm oil industry did the seemingly impossible (commentary)

What We Need Glenn Hurowitz -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Wilmar International’s No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation policy, announced ten years ago, marked a significant...

Canada must expand diplomatic horizon to Global South: Melanie Joly

What We Need Dylan Robertson -
Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said this fall that Canada needs to better reflect the needs...

Critical Thinking: Vital For Creating Sustainable And Democratic Societies

What We Need Aaron Karp -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Book Update #1 – Critical Thinking Chapter Editor's Note: Author Aaron Karp shares a chapter on critical...

Federal and provincial housing supply efforts shouldn’t jeopardize either affordability or climate resilience

What We Need Jessica McIlroy -
Click here to view original web page at www.pembina.org It’s time for homes and buildings to emit less carbon and ...

Vast new Marine Protected Areas are PNG’s first to be co-managed by Indigenous communities

What We Need Ian Morse -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com On Nov. 12, the government of Papua New Guinea declared two large new marine protected areas...

How broad is support for post-growth and post-capitalist ideas: Recent data would suggest its substantial

What We Need Jason Hickel -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular...

COP28: How 7 policies could help save a billion lives by 2100

What We Need Joshua M. Pearce -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com In a recent review of more than 180 peer-reviewed articles — which I conducted with fellow...

For equality and the climate, a European wealth tax

What We Need Chiara Putaturo -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The richest 10 per cent in the world are responsible for the same carbon emissions as...

COP28 must focus on the climate-fuelled health crisis

What We Need Marina Romanello -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The data show we are heading toward catastrophe, yet world leaders ...

“Affordable housing” isn’t affordable unless it’s energy efficient

What We Need Betsy Agar -
Click here to view original web page at www.pembina.org As governments across Canada commit to building thousands of new homes, they also must...

Canada must stop treating climate disasters like unexpected humanitarian crises

What We Need Will Greaves and Yvonne Su -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Two years after devastating wildfires razed 90 per cent of Lytton, B.C., reconstruction is slow and...

How sustainable, livable and resilient housing can help us adapt to a changing future

What We Need Andréanne Doyon and Trivess Moore -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com This summer, Canada experienced wildfires, extreme heat, drought and flooding. Other regions of the world faced...

Tax fairness and the path to a green economy

What We Need Norm Farrell -
Click here to view original web page at in-sights.ca Economist DT Cochrane and Katrina Miller, executive director of Canadians For Tax Fairness, authored a report...

Imagining the future: How to build in place sustainably

What We Need Patrick Mazza -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org This article was originally published by The Raven. Preface: The seminal power of imagination Ursula K. LeGuin, who...

Good data is key to addressing economic disparities in Canada

What We Need Tamara Krawchenko, David Weaver and Dr. Sean Markey -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org What do Dalhousie, N.B., Ponass Lake, Sask., and Rainbow Lake, Alta., have in common? According to...

Fostering public research or boosting Big Tech?

What We Need Philip Freeman and Jan Willem Goudriaan -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The European Health Data Space should serve ...

Addressing the climate crisis requires a diplomatic and global finance overhaul

What We Need Caroline Brouillette -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org When considering security crises in 2023, the top item on the list of most Canadian policymakers...

Air quality critical for social justice and the environment

What We Need Jana Hrckova and Daniel Lissoni -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu New European air laws can save lives and help the climate. A key vote takes ...

Finally, a Real Chance for International Tax Cooperation

What We Need Jomo Kwame Sundaram -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net After decades of resistance by rich nations, African governments successfully pushed for the United Nations to...

Civil Society Organizations Unite to Urge Public Development Banks to Change the Way Development Is Done

What We Need Bibbi Abruzzini -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net In the midst of a complex web of crises, spanning climate change, biodiversity depletion, constraints on...

Report lays out Bristol’s climate-friendly food plans

What We Need Ursula Billington -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org The Bristol Good Food 2030 (BGF2030) Action Plan identifies steps to a more sustainable local food...

To reduce rising crime rates, Canada needs to invest more in social services

What We Need Martin Andresen -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Martin Andresen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company...

UN should be learning from sustainable food producers – not hosting Big Ag

What We Need Shalmali Guttal and Sofia Monsalve -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Small-scale farmers and Indigenous groups say they have again been ...

The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Africa

What We Need Nnimmo Bassey -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media...

Canada takes first steps to regulate toxic ‘forever chemicals.’ but is it enough?

What We Need Amira Aker, Melanie Lemire, Pascale Ropars and Pierre Ayotte -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Canada recently took its first bold step to regulate the production and use of a large...
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