Every dollar that a government in the global south spends on repaying debt to its northern creditors, is a dollar that could have been spent on alleviating and preparing for the climate crisis.
Tess Woolfenden on why debt cancellation is the solution:
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The stories we tell shape how we view the world and what we think is possible. Read new blog from the GEC's guest author Denise Baden 📚🌎
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Discover the undeniable link between #ClimateJustice & #DebtJustice in this new blog
Written by our , this piece highlights why #DebtCancellation is an essential demand, especially as new proposals emerge that don't make the cut 👇
#CancelTheDebt
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I wrote a blog for ...
I outline why #DebtCancellation is vital for #ClimateJustice and why "no matter how innovative or shiny the packaging, providing new loans is not the answer" to providing #ClimateFinance.
Check it out!👇
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Join the People's Health Tribunal on 13th May and hold harmful corporations to account. Have your say 📢
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Extractive corporations like Shell and Total are hurting communities around the world. Their enormous profits come at the expense of the health and wellbeing of people living on the frontlines of extraction. Join the #PeoplesHealthTribunal this May - peopleshealthhearing.org/#signup
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📢This Saturday, whilst the companies and their funders are meeting in London, the people most affected by their violence in Africa will share their testimonies and take action.
🍀Register to attend:
peopleshealthhearing.org/#signup
#thepeopleshealthtribunal
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Join the People's Health Tribunal on 13th May and hold harmful corporations to account. Have your say 📢
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As G7 finance ministers meet in Japan, our friends at Debt Justice outline why the global north must end climate usury ⚖️
greeneconomycoalition.org/news-and-resou
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The Climate & Ecology Bill supported by the campaign from Zero Hour was reintroduced to Parliament TODAY.
The bill would ensure the UK cuts its emissions, reverses the destruction of nature and enables citizen participation.
Pledge your support: zerohour.uk
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The power of "social-science fiction"- how telling stories can inspire change toward a green future 📖💥💚
Denise Baden's blog for the GEC explains the importance of climate stories and sets out some potential solutions. Could carbon trading really work?
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NEWS: IIED Europe appoints first development director --> iied.org/iied-europe-ap
Alexandre Fernandes has been appointed as the new development director at IIED Europe, providing leadership to further European Union research on issues of climate, sustainability and justice.
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🟢 We're accepting submissions of papers that critically explore eco-social contracts and current challenges.
The call is open only to members of the Global Research and Action Network for a New Eco-Social Contract.
Become a member and participate now →
unrisd.org/en/activities/
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Interested in whether citizens’ assemblies can be designed to grapple with systemic aspects of the polycrisis? 's and 's to explore with the community, May 23rd
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Fantastic work from our partners and charting #Rwanda’s nature-positive green economy, covering:
💚 African #green economies
🌍 Building on-the-ground #climate resilience
🤝 Partnerships for #sustainable development
ipar-rwanda.org/what-we-do/res
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This #EarthDay, we're arguing that #Indigenous economics is the key to saving #nature.
Mainstream Western economics is destroying the environment - and the Indigenous knowledge that has conserved nature for millenia.
It's time we flipped the script.
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Today is #EarthDay! To celebrate, we're revisiting why #nature matters - through our #GECInsights series, which brought together some of the world's leading thinkers to explore transformative change for a nature positive world. Learn more:
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The climate, nature and humanity face disaster. We know it’s time to act.
Extinction Rebellion's four-day action from the 21st to the 24th April 2023 will bring together people from all groups and movements.
extinctionrebellion.uk/the-big-one/
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Tomorrow is Earth Day 🌍
One of the Green Economy's 5 key principles is 'The Planetary Boundary Principle' - essentially safeguarding, restoring and investing in nature.
We invest in protecting, growing and restoring biodiversity, soil, water, air, and natural systems. 💚
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GEC's blog speculated on the Government's mini-budget in March and the unaffordable cost of household energy:
greeneconomycoalition.org/news-and-resou
The NEF now proposes a new #NationalEnergyGuarantee to ensure we all have access to the basic energy needed to live.
neweconomics.org/2023/04/the-na
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Youth Climate Movement 🌏🤍🌟
The Radical Education Effect - education as a means to attain the ends of green economic transformation, not a
means to the ends of universal environmental awareness (either through a reformist or radical pathway).
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There seems to be no strategic culture in the Youth Climate Movement.
The Heat Map below shows the route that each surveyed group took throughout the theory of change.
Find out more in Climate Vanguard's full report: greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports
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From intersecting issues of domestic violence and feminine hygiene in Bangladesh 🏪, education for women + girls in Afghanistan 📚, to mapping the global youth climate movement 🗺️, youth voices encourage us to imagine a new eco-social contract.
Watch → youtube.com/live/dN50giJSl
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🇬🇧 Over half of those living in the same constituency as No. 10 Downing Street could be paying a higher effective tax rate than Rishi Sunak.
We need to make the tax system fairer so that those who earn the most, and own the most, pay their proper share.
thetimes.co.uk/article/millio
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Sunday read:
Recently shared my op-ed in , inspired by my experience growing up in a #coal community in #Turkey & my work at helping countries transition away from coal. Give it a read!
#ClimateChange #JustTransition #CoalTwitter #ClimateAction
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💸Millions of nurses, teachers and paramedics are paying a higher effective tax rate than the Prime Minister.
It's time for a fairer tax system where those who earn the most, and own the most, pay their proper share. It's time to #StopTheSqueeze
thetimes.co.uk/article/millio
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A great example of a social contract mechanism, holding those in power to account. 🫵🏽
Join the Tribunal and have your say this May📜
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Today, one third of UK households are living in fuel poverty as energy bills rise again 📈
That’s why hundreds of people are taking part in the #WarmThisWinter mass lobby right now! ✊
We deserve to be warm this, and every winter
Share if you agree! 📢
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Great chance below for experts from EU and non-EU countries alike to feed in views on the #EuropeanGreenDeal 👇👇👇
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borders. How will it affect countries outside of the Union?
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borders. How will it affect countries outside of the Union?
Share your thoughts by completing our #GreenDealBarometer survey
survey.savanta.com/?id=d60ebfad36
Your view matters!
#Think2030
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The impact of the #EUGreenDeal goes beyond 🇪🇺 borders. How will it affect countries outside of the Union?
Share your thoughts by completing our #GreenDealBarometer survey ⤵️
survey.savanta.com/?id=d60ebfad36
Your view matters!
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Households will lose government support towards the cost of energy from April.
For millions, energy bills are already unaffordable. We need to fix the broken system!
Join Warm This Winters Mass Lobby and hold the government to account!
warmthiswinter.org.uk/mass-lobby#how
This is pretty outrageous and just shows how #inequality creates #injustice. Time to break the vicious circle!
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New research just dropped
Stop the Squeeze is mentioned in today’s @thetimes as new figures show that up to 1 in 4 taxpayers could be paying a higher effective tax rate than @RishiSunak 
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Millions of nurses, teachers and paramedics are paying a higher effective tax rate than the Prime Minister.
It's time for a fairer tax system where those who earn the most, and own the most, pay their proper share. It's time to #StopTheSqueeze.
thetimes.co.uk/article/millio
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Our new working paper looks at the electoral effect of a "just transition" strategy in Spanish coal communities. We show it's possible for governments to phase-out coal extraction *and increase their vote share*; inclusive process + redistribution are key👇
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Happy to share a new working paper with @fergusgreen and Mikel González-Eguino that shows how just transition strategies can be electorally popular in fossil fuel municipalities, using the case of PSOE in Spain. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
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Fantastic work from , organising a mass lobby tomorrow, 1st April to urge MPs to act on the one third of UK households living in fuel poverty 📈 ✊🧡
#WarmThisWinter #WTWPledge
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On April 1st we are holding a mass lobby to hold the UK government to account, and we need YOU! 
Download our Action Guide for info about getting involved! 
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On April 1st we are holding a mass lobby to hold the UK government to account, and we need YOU!
Download our Action Guide for info about getting involved! warmthiswinter.org.uk/mass-lobby
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Great news. The cabinet has approved the publication of the Draft Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises and Cooperatives Funding Policy, developed by with support from us at , with funding.
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We are excited to kick off the 3⃣rd edition of our #GreenDealBarometer!
We look forward to receiving your insights to help us identify pathways for delivering on the #EUGreenDeal objectives🎯
Complete the survey ⤵️
survey.savanta.com/?id=d60ebfad36
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Our new polling data shows that Britons want a bigger role for the state in delivering a social contract. Browse the report now at roleofgov.uk or read the 🧵 below for a summary…
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