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🎄✨ 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. 💛🌍
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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: www.equalright.org/updates/when...
December 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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.
December 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Read our latest article featured at Global NYT, Denmark.

“Limit what destroys our climate, let the polluter pay, and share the benefits between all of us.”

The Cap and Share model offers a bold and fair way to cut emissions, and ensure everyone benefits.

Read more: globalnyt.dk/slut-med-tom...
Slut med tomme løfter: Her er en modig løsning på retfærdig klimafinansiering | Globalnyt
Zainab Bie er direktør for Asien og Stillehavsområdet i Equal Right – en international NGO, der arbejder for at fremme menneskerettigheder, lighed og k ...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Equal Right was glad to join the University of Bath & Project DEEP"s discussion on Unconditional Cash Transfers in India.
Discussions explored how unconditional cash transfers can complement existing social protection frameworks and enhance climate resilience.
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ahead of #COP30, we are launching “Basic Income for a Just Transition” Paper, showing how unconditional cash can drive #ClimateJustice across 5 key #UNFCCC workstreams.
💡 Read the paper here: www.equalright.org/publications
#JustTransition #LossAndDamage #ClimateFinance
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Last week, at the São Paulo State Assembly (ALESP), we presented Cap&Share to Eduardo Suplicy and his team — a model that connects climate policy and basic income. 🌍

Social and climate justice can (and should) go hand in hand. Thank you to Suplicy and his team for the warm welcome!
October 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In Kenya, Equal Right is piloting the Climate Commons Fund with Il Ngwesi Conservancy, combining cash transfers+ ecological bonuses to reward conservation.

Read Matu Mureithi’s story: Conservation Basic Income in Laikipia, Kenya 🌿
🔗 www.equalright.org/updates/cons...
October 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Join the Equal Right Community Draw 🎟️
💚 £10 ticket = entry to win cash prizes to win up to £25,000
🌍 Funds go directly to frontline communities in Tuvalu, Kenya & Colombia
🍽️ Includes free Gourmet Society membership
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Play our Community Draw — Equal Right - Economic justice without borders
The Equal Right community draw gives our supporters the chance to win cash prizes and benefit from exclusive discounts, whilst also sending money directly to people on the frontlines of the climate…
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October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We’ve kicked off community engagements for the Climate Commons Fund (CCF) in Il Ngwesi, Kenya.
The community sees CCF as a way to:
Lead in conservation & decision-making
Receive direct support to meet basic needs

Community-led conservation + UBI = a win for people & planet
October 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
É uma honra receber Eduardo Suplicy — ex-senador e atual deputado estadual por SP — em nosso Conselho Consultivo Internacional.
Defensor histórico da Renda Básica e da justiça social, sua trajetória inspira o Brasil e o mundo. 🌍✨
September 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
1/ Equal Right was in the Colombian Congress today 🇨🇴 to launch our Basic Income for Peace with Nature pilot.

The event brought together voices from politics, government, civil society, philanthropy, academia & Indigenous communities.
September 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
1/ Conservation must be led by the communities who live closest to the land.

On Sept 13, Equal Right met with Il Ngwesi Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya — a community-owned conservancy led by the Maasai people. 🌍 #ClimateCommonsFund
September 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
¡La grabación ya está disponible!

Nuestro Director Regional, Carlos Pérez, compartió experiencias, fundamentos y desafíos junto a Alirio Uribe y Rosa Emilia Salamanca.

Mira la grabación aquí 👉 youtube.com/live/pdrfy3-...
July 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
¿Qué es la #RentaBásicaUniversal y por qué seguimos insistiendo en ella?

Acompáñanos este martes 29 de julio a las 9 a.m. en el foro virtual:
💬 Renta Básica Universal: Experiencias, fundamentos y desafíos

Inscríbete aquí: acortar.link/fororb
#RentaBásicaYA #JusticiaSocial
July 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
On June 11 in Nairobi, we co-hosted the #CashForConservation workshop with @give-directly.bsky.social & @globalresilience.bsky.social to explore how direct cash transfers can support both people & planet.

Read GiveDirectly’s blog post www.givedirectly.org/conservation...
July 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Big news from the Amazon 🌿

@coolearthaction.bsky.social & Equal Right are launching a groundbreaking partnership to pilot Basic Income for Peace with Nature in the Colombian Amazon.

Unconditional cash. Forest protection. Dignity for communities.
#BasicIncome #Amazon #ClimateJustice
July 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Join us at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (#FfD4) for a timely discussion on how Universal Basic Income (UBI) can eradicate poverty, accelerate the SDGs, and support a just climate transition.

👉 More details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Wmqw...
June 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🌍 At #SB62? Don’t miss this.

Climate Reparations: Advancing Finance & Human Rights for Frontline Communities

🗓️ June 24 | 4:30–5:45 PM
📍 Berlin Room, Bonn

Hosted by Equal Right's Zainab Bie.
June 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
What if financial security was the key to climate justice? 🌍

In Tuvalu, our new project #UC4CJ is piloting unconditional cash for climate justice. The concept is simple: give activists the financial security they need to sustain their work — no strings attached.

Learn more: bit.ly/3GahkQV
Introducing UC4CJ: Unconditional Cash for Climate Justice — Equal Right - Economic justice without borders
Equal Right’s Director for Asia Pacific introduces our new project, UC4CJ, which provide unconditional cash transfers to climate activists in Tuvalu.
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June 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Our NHS is crumbling, energy bills keep rising and the climate crisis is a bigger threat than ever. But billionaires keep getting richer.

It’s time to tax the super-rich and #MakeThemPay.

20 September, central London. Join the National Demonstration.
June 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Unconditional cash transfers provide an effective and practical approach to link environmental conservation and the fight against poverty. For communities to gain resilience and protect ecosystems, they need lasting solutions built from ground up @equalrightorg.bsky.social @give-directly.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What if a Sovereign Wealth Fund could pay everyone $30/month and fund global climate justice?

Our Director for Brazil, Tomás' new blog explores how we can reimagine SWFs as engines for equity and sustainability.

www.equalright.org/updates/sovereignwealthfundsandclimatejustice
The Global Commons Fund: How Sovereign Wealth Funds Can Deliver Climate Justice — Equal Right - Economic justice without borders
Following the release of his new report, Equal Right’s Director for Brazil, Tomás, describes how sovereign wealth funds can be used as a tool for climate justice.
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June 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Our team were in Nairobi this week for the East Africa Cash for Conservation Workshop. The workshop, co-hosted by Equal Right, @give-directly.bsky.social & @globalresilience.bsky.social brought together stakeholders interested in the development of a ‘cash for conservation’ pilot in East Africa.
June 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We were pleased to join the Malawi Government’s National Stakeholder Forum on Cap and Share yesterday.

Hosted by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, the event shared findings from the Malawi Cap and Share Task Force, outlining what a Cap and Share policy could look like for Malawi.
June 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM