Episode Synopsis "1, 2, 3 . . . Averting Environmental Catastrophe"
Climate change, biodiversity loss, degradation of natural systems are the crises threatening the economic and social systems that form the core of society. Failure to halt these crises threatens to increase poverty and inequality and to undermine the vision of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for a sustainable, just and resilient world. The ways that governments raise and spend public money will have a huge impact on addressing climate breakdown and other environmental degradation. Murray Petrie of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency joins host Delaine McCollough to discuss how countries can “green” their budgets and aggressively respond to the impacts on people and communities.