Planetary Health
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All articles in Planetary Health
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Falling behind on the Sustainable Development Goals
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2021
Civil society groups said the 2021 UN high-level forum on Agenda 2030 offered no bold recommendations and ignored root causes, even as progress on inequality, emissions and hunger had stalled or reversed before COVID-19.
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Remarks on Peace-Building in a Post-Covid-19 World
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Covid left the rich richer and the poor poorer while the largest economies fought trade wars. Its lesson of shared safety should guide a world of enforceable law, summits answerable to citizens, and sovereignty pooled for common gain.
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World Federalism is not Big Brother
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Pandemic controls and surveillance have made people distrust states, and critics paint global federation as tyranny. Federalism does the opposite: it leaves decisions at the lowest workable level, demands accountability to the people and reconciles individual with collective rights.
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The pandemic slogan must be applied globally
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Covid taught that no one is safe until everyone is safe, and the same holds for climate, poverty and clean water. Acting on it needs enforceable world law and accountable global bodies, and pooled sovereignty enlarges a nation rather than shrinking it.
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Mondial Spring 2021: Getting from Here to There
World Federalist Movement – Canada · March 2021
A good future depends on changing values, not just technology. Growth must stop being the goal, and people can find more satisfaction in learning, music, community and helping others than in endless spending: more fun, less stuff.
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Mondial Spring 2021: Better Climate Governance Matters!
World Federalist Movement – Canada · March 2021
COP26 offers a chance to advance climate action. World federalists propose mediation to improve international climate negotiations.
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Carpe Diem
World Federalist Movement · March 2021
The World Federalist Movement highlights pandemic as catalyst for global governance reform. The article traces WFM/IGP’s role in creating the International Criminal Court.
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Environmental Problems: Local, Worldwide, and Global
March 2021
Smog or habitat loss can be fixed where it happens, but climate change, mercury and ocean plastic cannot. Only problems of the second kind call for binding treaties and, one day, world law; the rest need coordinated local action.
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COVID-44: A Letter from the Future
March 2021
This letter from the future describes how the world’s advanced global governance system successfully contained a deadly pandemic, COVID-44, in 2045. The author argues that a world federation, by eliminating war and funding global health, made rapid, effective epidemic response possible.
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The UNDP Human Development Report: Looking back to look ahead
March 2021
The article reviews the history of the UNDP Human Development Report, noting its shift from measuring GDP growth to assessing human opportunity and freedom. It highlights the report’s evolution, from focusing on human security and gender equality to addressing climate change and global inequalities.
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Mondial Summer 2020: Surviving Dystopia: World Federalism Eclipsed
World Federalist Movement – Canada · September 2020
Myron J. Frankman argues that climate breakdown will make borders untenable, so survival needs a planet-wide basic income, open borders and local governing assemblies, with phones guiding people to safety.
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TakeAction for July 2020: Global governance and COVID-19
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2020
A UN Parliamentary Assembly, a stronger International Criminal Court and a better equipped WHO are the examples Democracia Global gives in its petition, which stresses that it is no proposal for a world state.
