4 Shifts Campaign

Campaigning for the shift to a green and fair global economy

Over the last 200 years, the global economy has lifted billions out of extreme poverty - down from over 90% to less than 10%. That’s real progress.

But it’s come at a high cost.

Fueled by fossil energy and unsustainable consumption, this same economic system has pushed our planet to the brink. Greenhouse gas emissions have surged by over 5,000%. Wildlife populations have collapsed by more than two-thirds in just 50 years. If we stay on this path, we risk devastating environmental collapse—undoing the very progress we’ve made.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

We need a radical shift—a new kind of global economy that still creates jobs and opportunity, but within the limits of a healthy planet.

What we need are Four Shifts:

Two for the planet: to keep us within a safe environmental ceiling.
Two for people: to ensure a fair social floor for all.

Let’s build a world that’s both green and just.

Join us in campaigning for a future that works - for everyone, and for good.

Shift One: Clean Energy

From polluting fossil fuels to clean energy.

Strengthen the global Paris Agreement on climate change to scale down the use of fossil fuels to zero emissions and scale up clean energy to 100% by 2030, banning the future use of fossil fuels.

Bring in national climate change laws to implement it in every sector (energy, transport, buildings, industry etc.) in every nation.

Shift Two: Circular Economy

From overconsumption and waste to the circular economy.

Agree a global circular economy law to ban polluting activity, further human expansion into wild lands, the production of natural resources that takes out more than it puts back in, and all waste, in order to trigger the shift to a circular economy.

Bring in national circular economy laws to implement it in every nation.

Shift Three: Strong and Fair Economies

From aid and welfare dependent to self-sufficient and thriving strong and fair economies.

Every government to develop a proactive national industrial and economic development strategy to create a diverse national economy that progressively moves up the value chain from agriculture to manufacturing to services to the knowledge economy, using whatever policies are most effective at each stage.

Shift Four: Tax and Social Spending

From economies that only work for the richest to societies which tax and provide social spending to also help the poorest.

Agree a global tax and social spending agreement for every nation to collect tax at an amount equivalent to at least 45% of the national economy, one third from income taxes, one third from wealth taxes and one third from other taxes.

Spend at least two thirds of this on healthcare, education and social protection (pensions, benefits etc.).

Bring in national tax and social spending laws to implement it in every nation.

We are the first generation in history to truly understand the choice we face between collapse and a new green and fair global economy. We are the generation that gets to choose which way the world will go. Get involved and do something amazing with your life that will make a difference and change the world forever. Join us and support Arise’s 4 Shifts Campaign.

4 Shifts Report – explaining why 4 Shifts economics is needed and what it looks like

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