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🌍 Ever wondered what "Cap and Share" really means? 🤔Join Equal Right’s Malama, Zainab, and Tomás as they break it down in our new explainer video 👇

Our democracy is dead. It was killed by billionaires who were armed by the Supreme Court. To resurrect our democracy, we need to publicly fund elections, implement universal basic income, end gerrymandering via proportional ranked choice voting, tax wealth, and expand the SCOTUS.

Our Executive Director Patrick Brown gave a guest lecture at @UniofBath, diving deep into global climate governance and the broken COP process. Big thanks to Prof. Neil Howard for the invite! Let’s keep reimagining what climate leadership can look like. #ClimateJustice

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Meanwhile, a community-owned fund is being built to generate ongoing dividends tied to care for the land. This is justice-rooted climate finance, designed with the community, for the community - and it could be a replicable model for nature and climate funding around the world.

Introducing the Climate Commons Fund, a bold pilot in Il Ngwesi, Kenya that flips the script on conservation: Every adult receives direct cash support to strengthen livelihoods and advance community-led climate action.

100+ delegates joined us to discuss how carbon pricing in waste can work in practice. Key takeaway:it only works if it is fair Under Cap and Share, polluters pay and revenues go back to people as climate dividends and adaptation support. Climate policy must return value to people

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Big news: Equal Right’s basic income work in Colombia and Tuvalu is featured in New Internationalist. The piece captures something we deeply believe — unconditional cash isn’t just support, it’s climate adaptation built on trust, dignity, and community leadership.

Equal Right was honoured to speak at the 2026 EUMANS Congress in Paris, making the case for direct, redistributive climate finance through Universal Basic Income. #ClimateJustice #CapAndShare @theeumans @coolearth

Donate to the Climate Justice Coalition’s crowdfunder! As the rise of the far right threatens our lives and planet, it’s more important than ever we support organisations working to connect communities, groups and movements. Chip in here 👇 gofundme.com/f/donate-to-th…

🌍 New blog: As geopolitical tensions, climate limits, and inequality expose the cracks in the international system, we need a renewed multilateralism to support a just transition. Read An Agenda for a World in Transition by Carlos Pérez → equalright.org/updates/an-age…

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from all of us at Equal Right! ✨🎄 As 2025 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to pause, reflect, and celebrate this year of bold steps and shared victories in the fight for climate justice. Wishing you rest, renewal, and warmth this festive season.💛🌍

When negotiations fall short, communities rise. 🌍 In our latest blog, Clara Tomé shares powerful reflections from COP30 in Belém, where people, not processes, led the most urgent calls for climate justice. 🔗 Read it here: equalright.org/updates/when-t…

In our latest blog, Dr. Patrick Brown explores why Enra is a blueprint for Pacific-led, people-centred climate finance — and what it means ahead of COP31. Read here: equalright.org/updates/why-th… The Pacific has shown the way. Now the world needs to follow.

The Marshall Islands just launched the world’s first true national UBI — a universal dividend paid to every citizen through their sovereign wealth fund. It’s a breakthrough for climate justice: direct, unconditional income that builds resilience and recognises historic harm.

As we start Week 2 of #COP30, we’re looking back at everywhere Equal Right showed up in Week 1 — sharing evidence, building coalitions, and pushing for climate finance that reaches frontline communities. Onward. 🌍

As the world arrives in Belém for COP30, Equal Right will be on the ground advocating for Cap and Share, Cash for Conservation and Basic Income for a Just Transition. Our event agenda for the blue and green zones is below. If you're in Belém, please join us!