Since summer 2023, we at the Club of Rome – Austrian Chapter have been working on an Austria-wide campaign to create a positive vision of the necessary transformation or, as in the Report Earth4All written to implement a “Giant Leap” in Austria.
Our societies will no longer be torn apart by excessive inequalities. By redistributing wealth within and between nations, future generations will have greater opportunities to realize their dreams, regardless of family and country of origin.
Earth4All (2022)
This reversal of inequality is based on three fundamental levers that enable continuous development towards a new economic paradigm:
- Stronger progressive taxation for individuals and large corporations and closing international loopholes are essential to tackle destabilizing inequality and excessive carbon and biosphere consumption.
- Empower workers – Governments should legislate to strengthen the rights of workers and trade unions. In a time of great change, workers need both protection and the opportunity to develop new skills.
- Governments should introduce citizens’ funds to give all citizens their fair share of national wealth and the global commons in the form of a universal basic dividend.
On this page, we document relevant events and workshops, publish interviews and contributions by qualified authors and will soon also present what we as the Club of Rome/Earth4All see as the consequences of this for Austria. We see all of this as contributions to a process that we believe should be initiated in Austria in the sense of a “turnaround in inequality”.
Below you will find information on
Events
Veranstaltungswebsite
zum 5. März 2024 “SDGs4All – Earth4All? Leave no one behind!” | Kehrtwende Ungleichheit
https://www.clubofrome.at/veranstaltungen/event-5mar2024-kehrtwende2-ungleichheit/
Bildergalerie
Eindrücke vom 05.03.2024 ©CoR AT/Martin Hoffmann 🔗Bildergalerie, 5. März 2024
Background Material
From inequality to sutainability – Earth4All Deep-dive paper
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett examine the wide disparities in income and wealth and how these disparities reduce the chances that our societies can respond adequately to the climate crisis. They offer six reasons why greater equality is essential for a world facing the consequences of overshoot and the climate crisis. PDF (English)
Team
Turnaround Lead:
Dr. rer. pol Meike Bukowski
Meike is an Ecological Economist and Senior Scientist/Postdoc at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg Department of Social Science Geography and Sociology and at the Center for Ethics and Poverty Research.
Website Contributions
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Announcement: Event on the inequality turnaround
On March 5, after the topics of “energy” and “nutrition”, we will focus on the third turnaround, namely the topic of “inequality”.