Government
economic policies
should be guided
by
ecological &
climate needs
– Governments need to economically guide free-market activities and private investment towards achieving a healthy and sustainable natural environment.
– Create economic penalties to discourage businesses from harming the public environment, human living conditions, natural ecosystems or the global climate, and to discourage capital investment in business that engage in such harms.
– Create economic incentives to encourage capital investment in businesses and projects that help improve ecological, climate, and human living conditions.
– Governments should apply environmental-guiding economic measures; such as: negatively - protective laws, fines, and tax penalties, or positively - tax breaks, rebates, subsidies, or contracts.
– Reduce industrial pollution and resource depletion by making industries economically-accountable for their environmental damages and depletion of public natural resources.
– Ensure that industrial activities are economically-accountable for any long-distance and long-term harms to the public environment and human health, to natural ecosystems and resources, to the global climate, or to local communities.
– Require multinational corporations and international financial organizations to act transparently for the good of environmental and ecological health, climate stabilization, and for improving human living conditions, sustainable communities, cities and regions.
– Create banking-regulations requiring all government-reserve protected banks to give higher loan-rating points and lower interest-rates for businesses or projects that provide current or long-term benefits to the environment or to human well-being, while giving lower loan-rating points and higher interest-rates to those businesses or projects that have negative long-term effects on the environment or to human well-being.
– In order to determine the approval-ranking of a proposed loan, as compared with other proposed loans, each proposed loan is given higher or lower loan-rating points, depending on a ratio of its environmental, human and future Benefits compared to its environmental, human and future Costs. This loan-qualifying ratio and its correlated loan-rating points can also determine the offered interest-rate for each proposed loan, in which a higher benefits-to-costs ratio determines a lower interest-rate, while a lower benefits-to-costs ratio determines a higher interest-rate.
Business fines or tax-penalties
for damages to ecosystems or the climate
– Governments need to establish protective laws, fines, and special taxes to make businesses financially accountable for business activities that directly or indirectly cause harmful consequences to the environment, natural resources, ecosystems or climate.
– Environmental Costs (including ecological and climate-change costs, waste-disposal costs, and resource-depletion costs), due to business activities or products, must be internalized into the business' profit/costs accounting, and these environmental costs should be paid to the government or to the affected communities.
– Internalize into the selling price, the full environmental costs of sold products; thus influencing purchasing & consumption to shift towards environmentally-beneficial products.
– Climate-harming costs from carbon emissions can be paid by carbon-taxes, emission-penalties, or by a required purchasing of carbon-credits in a government directed cap-and-trade market.
Business tax-reductions, rebates, subsidies, or gov contracts
for improving ecosystems or reducing climate-change
– Incentivize clean and renewable energy production, clean fuels, clean energy technologies, and reliable energy infrastructure.
– Incentivize environmentally-sustainable production and consumption.
– Incentivize the development and available supply of environmentally-friendly and climate-helpful industrial technologies & consumer products.
– Incentivize the industrial use of emission-reducing and emission-capturing technologies.
– Incentivize the consumer use of environmentally-friendly and climate-helpful products.
– Incentivize the recycling and reuse of plastics, metals, and other non-degradable products, and incentivize local recycling collection systems, effective separation methods, and material-recycling businesses.
– Incentivize community projects and businesses that increase natural carbon-capture.
– Incentivize soil regeneration, organic farming, and local sustainable food production.
– Incentivize an increase, restoration, and stewardship of forests, wildlands, and nature reserves (public or private owned).
– Incentivize the ecological restoration, improvement and maintenance of coastal marine and wetland areas.
– Incentivize ocean cleanup and ocean carbon-capture projects.
– Incentivize corporate investments in natural carbon-capture projects, with tax-breaks & carbon-offset credits.
– Incentivize banks to help fund, with low-interest loans, community projects and businesses that help mitigate or reverse climate-change, improve the farming soil, or improve the local ecosystems.
– Incentivize banks to help fund, with low-interest loans, community projects and businesses that provide a needed service or benefit to a community or to the larger society.
– Private, Institutional, Corporate, and Government Investments need to be fully informed of all environmental, social, and ethical criticisms, given by independent assessments.
– All investments are encouraged to take account of the environmental, social, and ethical effects of the projects being funded, and make decisions with these considerations in equal par with increasing profit.
– Governments are encouraged to shift the market economy (nationally or locally) in an environmental, social, and ethical direction, for the good of all those who use the economy and for all those who are citizens of that government.
– Governments are encouraged to incentivize Private, Institutional, and Corporate Investments with tax benefits and tax penalties, dependent on the value (pos or neg) given by various environmental, social, and ethical assessments.
– Ensure a basic economic security for human survival.
– Ensure access to nutritious food, clean water, adequate sanitation, protective shelter, and a safe & healthy environment.
– Increase access to healthcare, medicines, counseling, maternity needs and family planning.
– Everyone has a human right to a basic economic security, including sufficient food, clean water, adequate shelter, sanitation and healthcare.
– Guaranteed care for all children, elderly, and disabled persons.
– Job opportunities for everyone, with safe work-places and fair equitable pay; employment for everyone willing to work.
– Equal opportunities to gain the education and skills needed to either start a business or to be employed or for job/pay advancement.
– Business opportunities (with helpful capital-loans) and fair market trade.
– Government subsidies or low-interest loans to need-targeted communities, for starting new businesses or for employing any of the local unemployed, in jobs that benefit the community in some way, either in the social sphere of the community or in the caretaking of the surrounding ecosystems of that region.
– The right to own personal property or a business.
– The right to buy or trade goods, services, property or investments.
– The right to protect the ownership of one's own artistic creations, writings and inventions.
– The right to not be controlled or exploited by self-serving economic powers.
– The rights of indigenous people to their sacred lands, natural resources, and cultural lifestyles.
– human rights, civil freedoms, social fairness, equal justice,
and non-discrimination.
– improving the quality of life and living conditions for everyone.
– wider distribution of economic prosperity and opportunities.
– global and regional fair-trade agreements, with fair and safe labor standards.
– sustainable infrastructure for energy supply, economic transport, and digital communication.
– community and regional self-sufficient & self-resilient economies, with localized energy & food production, accessible water sources, and small-scale technologies.
– globally-cooperative solutions to climate-change; such as reducing carbon-emissions, increasing natural carbon-capture, and developing climate adaptation & resilience in regions and communities.
– strengthen community and agricultural resilience against severe heat, droughts, and floods.
– help decentralized locally-controlled agriculture and food systems, with localized freedom to reproduce agricultural seeds unrestricted by seed-patent laws.
– food and technology supply-chains that are un-manipulated by corporate monopolies and industrial cartels.
– local protections from corporate land-grabbing and corporate controlled land-use.
– business-accountability for harms done to communities,
human health, and the natural environment,
and establish business-incentives for improving communities, social prosperity, and the natural environment.
– Multinational Corporations can contribute 10% of their yearly profits to a World Fund for assisting poorer nations with sustainable development and ecological restoration, and this can be collected each year by progressive taxes on corporation's total capital assets along with their capital gains or windfall-gains for that year.
– Corporations can also be proportionately taxed to support national public services, infrastructure, and socially or ecologically needed projects.
– Investment Companies, Banks and Corporations can be tax-incentivized to invest in and provide low-interest loans to ecological & climate helping community-projects and small businesses.
– Wealthier nations are asked to be more economically generous and helpful to poorer nations, with international assistance and loans for sustainable development, ecological regeneration, and climate solutions.
– Relieve poorer nations of excessive debt problems, by decreasing the interest rates on their loans, and by a generous restructuring of debt.
– Relieve excessive dept by debt-for-nature swaps, which trades debt for more ecological conservation and climate-improving projects or policies.
– Implement effective economic measures to achieve a more equitable distribution of wealth and capital, within nations and among nations,
– Wealthier nations are encouraged to donate 5% of their annual GNP into a World Fund for helping poorer nations and communities become ecologically sustainable, climate helpful, and more economically independent, secure and prosperous. Wealthier nations could ask the wealthiest 5% of individuals, families and corporations to pay most of this national donation to the World Fund, by a progressive income, wealth, property and assets tax.
– Ensure that all people have food security, clean drinking water, adequate sanitation, safe shelter, and access to healthcare & emergency services.
– Help improve local-reliant food security and food production in regions, cities and communities.
– Help improve local-regional water security.
– Help improve the quality of life for all people and communities.
– Especially helping migrant and refugee camps, the vulnerable and the underprivileged.
– Emergency Relief from the UN and affiliated groups, for regions affected by severe weather or other natural disasters, and for regions affected by armed conflicts.
– Provide assistance and loans to environmentally & socially beneficial locally-owned small businesses and community-cooperative enterprises.
– Provide helpful international loans to increase local economic self-reliance and prosperity for all communities and regions.
– Provide assistance for increasing regional and local economic independence, along with equitable-fair global trade.
– Provide assistance for localized food production, food independence, and locally-managed food trade markets.
– Provide assistance and incentives for local and regional soil-regenerative farming, for both small private-owned farms and community farming.
– Provide assistance and incentives for the management of community-local and regional ecosystems, including forest, rivers, wetlands and coastal marine management, and the conservation of surrounding wildlands and natural habitats.
– Provide assistance and incentives to increase clean and renewable energy-independence for local communities and cities.
– Provide assistance and incentives for environmentally sustainable infrastructure of energy supply, economic transport, and digital communication.
– Provide extra assistance for migrant and refugee groups to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities, with full employment towards helping the community and the local ecosystem, or working in a profitable trade or business.
– Financially assist poorer nations with low-interest loans and generous aide, in their solutions to global climate-change.
– Financially assist poorer nations in their transition to cleaner energies and fuels.
– Financially assist poorer nations in their projects for increasing natural carbon-capture.
– Financially assist poorer nations in their climate-change preparations, adaptations and resilience.
– Improve local drought and flood resilience, and help agriculture be more climate-resilient.
– With regional and local community engagement, decide on regional climate adaptation strategies and locally-needed climate resilience plans, including disaster risk reduction and emergency response mechanisms.
All of the above is included in a more comprehensive webpage
Foundations for a Sustainable & Prosperous World