Publications
Delivering Just Climate Finance: A Cap and Share Plan for Malawi
A June 2025 Paper produced by the Malawi Cap and Share Task Force, written by Equal Right in partnership with the Government of Malawi
The paper finds that through working with an international partner to implement a bilateral Cap and Share policy, Malawi could secure billions annually for climate finance, including investment in green energy, climate grants for adaptation, loss and damage, and a universal dividend enough to eliminate extreme poverty for all Malawians.
Basic Income for a Just Transition and Ecosocial Transformation in Brazil
A May 2025 paper published by Equal Right in partnership with Brazillian think tank Transforma.
This paper proposes the adoption of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a strategic instrument to address, in an integrated manner, social inequalities and the impacts of climate change in Brazil. It includes proposals for a Brazilian Cap and Share policy, and innovative plans for an Indigenous Basic Income in Brazil.
How Cap and Share Can Build a Global Climate Club
This 2025 paper sets out how a ‘Global Climate Club’ can provide the policy framework and incentives necessary for global climate action in a way that is socially equitable, financially sustainable and politically viable.
‘No borders ’ tax justice:
International taxation of wealth and the finance industry
This briefing calls for the introduction of two new taxes, both to be levied and redistributed at the international level, or pooled and redistributed supra-nationally by participating governments:
An international wealth tax
An international financial
transactions tax (FTT)
Climate justice without borders
A 2023 paper on controlling fossil fuel extraction to fund redistribution for climate justice.
This report sets out a plan for a cap and share system that would tackle the climate crisis, fund a transformational global Green New Deal, and drastically reduce levels of international poverty and inequality. We propose two kinds of system:
A global system
A country-by-country
implementation model
A UBI for Half the World
A 2021 briefing on why four billion people need global funding to receive a sufficient basic income.
A worldwide basic income of $30 per person per month, paid to everyone of us as citizens of the world and provided by a global body such as the United Nations, could be our only way to ensure that we all receive a sufficient UBI. It would:
Support asylum seekers and migrants
Underpin national UBIs
Empower us all
*please note this paper was produced when Equal Right was ‘World Basic Income’ and may include some sections which are now out of date but may still be of interest.
Taking Tax to the Global Level
A 2018 paper exploring Southern initiatives that could combine to create a worldwide basic income.
The Global South is arguing strongly for a UN tax body.1 The initial focus is, quite rightly, on reducing tax avoidance and arresting the 'race to the bottom' on corporation tax. But apart from these goals, we should ask what else a UN tax body could achieve. Could it provide:
Greater potential for tackling global injustice
A meaningful international framework for managing CO2
Tackle other international problems
*please note this paper was produced when Equal Right was ‘World Basic Income’ and may include some sections which are now out of date but may still be of interest.
Basic income beyond borders
A 2017 paper exploring how a worldwide basic income could tackle global inequality and extreme poverty.
Basic income has most often been promoted as a national initiative, provided to citizens of a country by their national government. This has fantastic potential to address inequality in that country and to end poverty there, but it leaves global inequality and poverty untouched. A world basic income would:
Redistribute wealth at the world level
Tackle global inequalities and
extreme poverty directly*please note this paper was produced when Equal Right was ‘World Basic Income’ and may include some sections which are now out of date but may still be of interest.