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How an AI Commons Fund can deliver UBI for All

In this blog, our Executive Director Patrick Brown considers how a global wealth fund, capitalised with revenues from the shared value generated by AI, could fund a Universal Basic Income for all.

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Running Alongside Wildlife, Community, and Conservation at the Safaricom Lewa Marathon

This blog explores Matu Mureithi’s experience preparing for the Safaricom Lewa Safari Marathon, a unique race that brings together wildlife conservation, community development, and endurance sport. It highlights how the marathon supports local communities and conservation efforts, while showcasing Equal Right’s Climate Commons Fund, which aims to ensure Indigenous communities directly benefit from protecting ecosystems.

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Why Tech Companies Must Back Universal Basic Income

This blog explores how rapid AI-driven automation and mass layoffs are deepening economic inequality and making Universal Basic Income (UBI) increasingly necessary as a tool for justice, stability, and shared prosperity. The piece argues that tech companies benefiting from AI should support redistribution mechanisms such as unconditional cash transfers, especially for vulnerable communities most affected by automation and climate inequality.

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War Is a Climate Issue and Universal Basic Income Is Part of the Answer

In this Blog, Christine Wainaina talked about how war and climate change are closely connected, with each crisis intensifying the other’s impact on societies and the environment. She also explained how Universal Basic Income could provide people with economic security and resilience during conflicts, climate disasters, and other global crises.

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An Agenda for a World in Transition

In this blog, Equal Right’s LATAM Director, Carlos Pérez, examines how today’s geopolitical crises, fossil fuel dependence, and environmental limits expose deep flaws in the international system. It argues that reviving multilateralism requires governing shared resources through approaches like Cap and Share while strengthening basic economic security to support a just global transition.

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Reflections from COP30: When the Negotiations Fall Short, Communities Point the Way Forward

In our latest blog, Clara Tomé Colomer, Equal Right's Cap and Share policy competition winner, reflects on her experience at COP30 as part of our delegation in Belém. From the disconnect inside negotiation halls to the grassroots power outside them, Clara unpacks why climate justice means putting resources, and power, directly in the hands of communities. She explores how Cap and Share and her own Fashion Commons model offer real alternatives rooted in equity and sovereignty..

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Why the Marshall Islands’ new basic income programme serves as a blueprint for climate justice in the South Pacific

In this blog, our Executive Director Patrick Brown explores how the Marshall Islands’ new Universal Basic Income offers a powerful blueprint for climate justice in the South Pacific. He unpacks why UBI matters in a region facing existential climate threats, how sovereign wealth funds and commons-based financing can transform adaptation, and what a Pacific-led model of direct, unconditional climate finance could mean for COP31 and beyond.

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