In late November, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) will be launched in Dubai. Coming at the end of a year which broke multiple heat records, the event is supposed to set the stage for a major push to...

In mid June 2022, farmers across Pakistan gazed out across thriving fields of rice, maize and mung beans, looking forward to bringing in the harvest in a few months’ time. Then the floods began: nearly half of the country’s crops were...

We have changed our name - welcome to our new-look website based around our new name, 'Equal Right'.

We started life in 2016 as World Basic Income. At the heart of this name was a demand for global justice. We believe that the world's resources need to be...

As the one percent of the world once again meet in Bonn for the annual climate ritual of setting the 28th Conference Of Parties (COP28), the 99% remain in their communities without a voice or a seat at the table.

On Saturday 15th October a coalition of more than 200 social justice organisations from across the world joined the G77, China and the Africa Group at the United Nations in demanding a UN tax convention to tackle elite tax avoidance and...

The most obvious solution to the climate emergency is to phase out the extraction of fossil fuels. Our latest podcast episode explores how this can be done in a way that supports climate justice.

Today we are delighted to launch our brand new podcast, Act Global. It's an upbeat economics podcast that explores real workable solutions for global justice. We're aiming to produce one episode per month and include guests from...

Five years ago this month, Paul Harnett and I made French onion soup for 100 people (Paul chopped so many onions he had blisters from the knife). It was served up in the lunch break at our inaugural conference, which was the first in the world to explore...

In the months since our book-writing crowdfunder (thanks a million to everyone who donated!), I've been working hard on the book's central chapter: how a worldwide basic income could be funded.

Back in the summer I asked Malawian economist Frank Kamanga, our long-term supporter and member of our International Advisory Board, why he supports universal basic income.

“I was motivated to join the global UBI movement because of the...

World Basic Income has today published a new paper outlining proposals for an international carbon charge scheme, that would:

• Cap overall carbon extraction

• Require all fossil fuel extractors to buy permits

• Provide real climate justice

World Basic Income, in partnership with Rahul Basu of the Goa Foundation, has submitted a paper to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty. The paper proposes an International Carbon Charge and Dividend as a key policy for worldwide "Just Transition" to a green economy.