The Global Justice Report proposes a fully quantified plan for grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability, tracing an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100. The authors argue that reconciling planetary habitability with high well-being for all is possible, but only through an integrated strategy that simultaneously combines fast decarbonisation of energy systems, a major shift toward sufficiency, and a drastic compression of inequality of income, wealth, and power both between and within countries. To this end, the report proposes concrete institutional reforms, including global wealth and income taxation, a Global Justice Fund, and reforms to the international financial architecture, concluding that the compression of global inequality is not only compatible with deep decarbonisation but is a necessary condition for financing and politically sustaining a just transition to a world that remains below 2°C of warming.
The Global Justice Report: A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary
Author(s)
World Inequality Lab
Publication Date
30 June 2025
Publisher
World Inequality Lab
DOI / URL
Resource Type
International Organization Report
Systems Addressed
Social Order and Governance
Resource Theme
Learning resource
