Climate Justice
All articles in Climate Justice
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Remarks on Kevin Rudd’s book: “The Avoidable War”
World Federalist Movement · September 2023
A US-China war is avoidable, but “managed strategic competition” is not enough, because the climate crisis and other rising powers need a wider answer. A Global Green Deal built on IMF reform and special drawing rights could open the way to peaceful coexistence and UN reform.
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We Only Have One Planet Left to Save
World Federalist Movement · July 2023
Europe’s narrowly approved nature-restoration law is a step, but healthy ecosystems belong to everyone and no single bloc can save them. A “Constitution of the Earth”, agreed first by the four biggest polluters, could bring the rest of the world along.
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The Failure of Climate-Finance Governance and Federalist Action
World Federalist Movement · July 2023
The Paris Conference failed to secure climate finance for poor nations. Federalists propose global reforms to address ecological transition funding.
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Seven ways to tackles inflation without raising interest rates
World Federalist Movement – Canada · April 2023
Raising interest rates is the wrong cure for an inflation driven by supply shocks and corporate profiteering. Taxing the richest and windfall profits, building affordable housing, cutting oil dependence and raising wages would ease prices without punishing ordinary households.
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William Pace – Personification of Peace
World Federalist Movement · March 2023
William Pace, a peace advocate, dedicated his life to global justice and environmental protection. His journey began with Einstein’s writings on peace and continued through world federalism efforts.
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A New Foundation for a Sustainable World
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
Endless growth in consumption is driving climate change, extinction and conflict, and clean technology alone cannot end overshoot. People will accept consuming less if the change is framed as a gain: more time for relationships, learning, service and creativity.
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Global Climate Accountability
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
Elizabeth May argues for a World Trade and Environment Organization to enforce climate action. She highlights the failure of the Kyoto Protocol and the need for trade sanctions to meet the 1.5 C target.
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A Speech at the 75th Anniversary of the Montreux Declaration
World Federalist Movement · February 2023
Regional integration in Europe shows how a federal system can work across borders, and European federalists belong in the same movement as world federalists. Climate governance is the best ground for a joint campaign, starting with a World Environment Authority.
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A Speech at the 75th Anniversary of the Montreux Declaration
World Federalist Movement · February 2023
In 1947 European and world federalists chose separate paths. Facing climate breakdown as well as the nuclear danger, they should now join forces in a “Union of Federalists” pressing every government for a Global Green Deal.
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From National Secrecy To World Security: Friendship Sets Us Free
Citizens for Global Solutions · February 2023
National governments hide information and spy on rivals at great cost, breeding mistrust and fear while a billion people are starving. A democratic world federation with shared citizenship would let humanity pool information and resources, replacing secrecy with the cooperation of friends.
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The Spring of Civilization?
World Federalist Movement · January 2023
Nation-states have been breaking apart for decades, as a 1973 case for world federal government predicted, and climate change and nationalism now threaten civilization itself. The open question is whether the world federalist message prevails before catastrophe, or only after more world wars.
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Reforming International Economic Institutions, For a More Prosperous, Just And Sustainable World Economic Order
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2022
Peter Venton argues that the IMF, World Bank and WTO must add climate stability and lower inequality to their goals, end $6 trillion a year in fossil fuel subsidies, close tax havens and answer to a UN Parliamentary Assembly.
