TRANSFORMER L’ÉCONOMIE EN DÉPLOYANT LES SOLUTIONS À GRANDE ÉCHELLE

The document critiques neoliberalism for causing ecological destruction and deep inequalities, proposing a shift toward an economy that prioritizes people and the planet. It outlines five strategic pillars for transformation: ensuring universal public services through tax justice, expanding cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy, supporting local agroecological markets and fair trade, replacing GDP with wellbeing indicators (such as 'Buen vivir' or 'doughnut economics'), and establishing a binding UN treaty to hold multinational corporations accountable for human rights and environmental abuses.

• Neoliberal economic ideology, characterized by liberalization, privatization, and deregulation, has failed by causing extreme ecological damage and wealth concentration, where the wealthiest 1% own more than the poorest 99%.
• Public services are essential for fundamental rights and gender justice, but are threatened by privatization; for example, in South Africa, 25% of 44 million people lost water and electricity access following privatization.
• Global tax havens result in an annual loss of nearly 600 billion USD; the report claims that the revenue lost over 15 years would be sufficient to provide 100% renewable energy for Africa, Latin America, and much of Asia.
• Cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy offer a democratic alternative to capitalist accumulation by prioritizing collective power, sustainability, and equal distribution of profits over individual profit.
• Local and regional markets based on agroecology reduce pollution from transport and keep more wealth within communities; a University of California study found that buying from local farmers doubles the money remaining in the community compared to supermarkets.
• The current reliance on GDP as a measure of progress is inadequate; the report advocates for indicators that value domestic care work and planetary boundaries, citing models like 'Buen vivir', 'Ecological Swaraj', and 'doughnut economics'.
• The European Union's 'land footprint' for agricultural products was 269 million hectares in 2010, which is 43% more than the total agricultural land available within the EU, meaning 106 million hectares outside the EU are used to support European consumption.
• Multinational corporations often possess more wealth than the states regulating them, leading to systemic impunity for human rights and environmental violations; the report supports a binding UN treaty to ensure corporate accountability.

APA

Carrau, N., & Cossar-Gilbert, S. (n.d.). TRANSFORMER L’ÉCONOMIE EN DÉPLOYANT LES SOLUTIONS À GRANDE ÉCHELLE. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/foei-transforming-our-economy-FR.pdf

Chicago

Carrau, Natalia, and Sam Cossar-Gilbert. TRANSFORMER L’ÉCONOMIE EN DÉPLOYANT LES SOLUTIONS À GRANDE ÉCHELLE. Friends of the Earth International, n.d. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/foei-transforming-our-economy-FR.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{carraundtransformer, author = {Carrau, Natalia and Cossar-Gilbert, Sam}, title = {{TRANSFORMER L’ÉCONOMIE EN DÉPLOYANT LES SOLUTIONS À GRANDE ÉCHELLE}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/foei-transforming-our-economy-FR.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }