Financing the global sharing economy
Report / 1st October 2012A report by Share The World’s Resources demonstrates how governments could mobilise over $2.8 trillion each year to bolster the global sharing economy and prevent life-threatening deprivation, reverse austerity measures and mitigate the human impacts of climate change.
Financing the global sharing economy – executive summary
Report / 1st October 2012This executive summary of a report by Share The World’s Resources outlines how governments could mobilise over $2.8 trillion to finance the global sharing economy as an immediate priority for governments, which it argues can only happen with a huge groundswell of public pressure for sharing and justice.
Financing the global sharing economy, part one: the sharing economy
Report / 1st October 2012Part 1 of the report Financing the Global Sharing Economy demonstrates how systems that facilitate ‘economic sharing’ are increasingly being eroded by policies that widen inequalities and leave families in a state of poverty or destitution across the world. The result is a silent humanitarian emergency that should be treated as a foremost priority by the international community.
Financing the global sharing economy, part two: the global emergency
Report / 1st October 2012Part 2 of the report Financing the Global Sharing Economy describes in more detail a silent humanitarian emergency that governments should prioritise above all other international concerns: millions of people across the world who face extreme deprivation and die needlessly each day as a consequence of extreme poverty, natural disasters or other preventable causes.
When will ordinary people rise up?
Report / 27th June 2012If world leaders and policymakers are paying merely lip service to the unfolding human and environmental catastrophe, is the growing power of the people’s voice sufficient to challenge the immense forces that stand in the way of creating a just and sustainable world?