Our Economics for the Earth project aims to create a more environmentally sustainable and socially just world by transforming financial and economic systems. We work to redirect tax policies and public spending to make polluters pay for the costs of their pollution, and to drive the transition to a cleaner, low-carbon economy.
At home and abroad, we advocate for policies that minimize environmental and social harm and fund a brighter future. In the United States, we strengthen regulations to encourage sustainability in financial markets and fight trade policies that allow companies to run roughshod over the environment and human rights. We also work with allies around the world to alter lending practices at financial institutions such as the World Bank, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and Wall Street banks that fund polluting activities and harm communities in developing countries.
Our Earth Budget campaign seeks to end subsidies for polluting industries, ensure adequate funding for government to protect public health and the environment, make polluters pay for the damage caused by their pollution, and encourage investment in clean alternatives.
We follow the money and work to curb harmful financing activities by the World Bank, the U.S. Export-Import Bank and other financial institutions. We seek to promote accountability and robust safeguards at the Green Climate Fund, which will provide public finance to developing nations to help them adapt to climate change.
We work to ensure that the wealthiest industrialized countries, which have done the most to cause climate change, do their fair share to solve the problem, in part by providing financial assistance to developing countries so they can grow their economies with clean energy sources and so they can more effectively cope with climate change impacts.
Friends of the Earth’s longstanding program on international trade seeks to educate the public and policymakers about the environmental dangers and undemocratic nature of trade agreements. We monitor existing trade and investment deals and currently are working to prevent the Trans-Pacific Partnership, known as the “NAFTA of the Pacific,” from being able to overturn laws that protect the environment.
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