Briefs

Confronting Carbon Inequality

Despite sharp falls in carbon emissions in 2020 linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis – which is driven by the accumulation of emissions in the atmosphere over time – continued to grow. This briefing describes new research that shows how extreme carbon inequality in recent decades has brought the world to the climate brink. It sets out how governments must use this historic juncture to build fairer economies within the limits our planet can bear

Power, Profits and the Pandemic: From corporate extraction for the few to an economy that works for all

The worsening inequality crisis triggered by COVID-19 is fuelled by an economic model that has allowed some of the world’s largest corporations to funnel billions of dollars in profits to shareholders, giving yet another windfall to the world’s top billionaires, a small group of mostly white men. At the same time, it has left low-wage workers and women to pay the price of the pandemic without social or financial protection. Since the onset of the pandemic, large corporations have put profits before workers’ safety, pushed costs down the supply chain and used their political influence to shape policy responses. COVID-19 should be the catalyst for radically reining in corporate power, restructuring business models with purpose and rewarding all those that work with profits, creating an economy for all.

For a Decade of Hope Not Austerity in the Middle East and North Africa

Towards a fair and inclusive recovery to fight inequality

Disposable

Cheap chicken has always had a high human cost. In the face of COVID-19, the poultry industry now seems willing to pay with workers’ lives.

Pandemic Profiteers Exposed

A COVID-19 Pandemic Profits Tax as one essential tool to reverse inequalities and rebuild better post-pandemic

The Hunger Virus: How COVID-19 Is Fueling Hunger In A Hungry World