A. Survival objectives in this emergency situation

1. Advance the integration of massive funding towards food reserves, and prohibit speculation on the price of food.

2. Allocate funds and resources for immediate support to address the effects of natural disasters.

3. Immediately launch a coordinated global action to end the hunger and malnutrition suffered by millions of people worldwide.

4. Launch a special program to provide potable water to all peoples of the world.

5. The recognition of the right to food sovereignty, of each country’s citizens to decide their own sustainable agricultural and food policies.

6. Implement strategies for the promotion of comprehensive preventive health programs and for the assessment and adjustment of current medical and pharmacological practices.

7. Ensure every region has seeds, germplasm and genetic sample reservoirs of all animal and plant species on the planet.

8. Immediate global political recognition of the gravity of the climate crisis, through radical policy changes and a dramatic revision of citizen lifestyles to sustainable, sufficient and equitable levels.

B. Transition to a participatory democracy

1. The construction of a more equitable, participative, deliberative and transparent democracy in all countries.

2. Advance effective parliamentary representation and reassess the concepts of service and social responsibility of rulers and public officials.

3. The implementation of participative budgets by all governments: local, regional, national, etc.

4. The implementation of public information and accounting systems that take governments to task, to structurally ensure the right to access information, transparency and accountability of governments, in order to prevent corruption and improve public administration.

5. Implement laws and mechanisms to promote the application of justice expeditiously, transparently and equitably.

C. Transition to Environmental Sustainability

1. Recovery of the vision of life as interdependent, intrinsically linked to nature, the sun, air, water and land.

2. The generation of a new culture of energy, with a drastic reduction of dependence on non-renewable sources, and the spread of readily available renewable energy sources.

3. A radical change in habits and lifestyle, towards dramatically reduced consumption, production and material growth, and sustainable population levels.

4. The promotion of integrated designs that regenerate human settlements as harmonic and sustainable systems, consistent with the cultural and environmental components of each population.

5. The promotion of ecologically-friendly traditions and innovative technologies in all branches of production.

6. The creation of a fund for environmental regeneration by industrialized countries and emerging economies, assuming they are primarily responsible for climate change, and by far still the largest consumers of non-renewable resources.

7. The implementation of more strict national and global tax systems toward sustainability, with environmental taxes and incentives based on "Whoever contaminates or destroys more resources, pays more."

D. Transition to a sustainable social economy

1. An extensive reformulation of the idea of development and growth. Recognition of the failure of aid for development and policies to reduce poverty and human suffering over the past 6 decades.

2. Denounce the complete lack of accountability of donor agencies and international financial institutions, for the disastrous human consequences of their “faulty” policy prescriptions.

3. The replacement of conventional quantitative indicators (e.g. GDP and income per capita) for more qualitative measurement systems that take into account welfare, prosperity, sustainability, and use as their framework, the sustainable coverage of basic needs of 100 percent of the global population.

4. Legally regulate and gradually standardize, both nationally and internationally, minimum wages, to ensure a decent life for workers and employees.

5. Legally regulate and gradually standardize -both nationally and internationally - maximum levels of revenue, income and bonuses to avoid the concentration of wealth and influence, and end the affront to the millions of people living on $1 a day.

6. Implement a basic income as a right of the citizens, to each full member or resident of the society.

7. Charge taxes to the transport of goods according to their distance, in order to make the transnational production of goods unprofitable, and to strongly encourage local production and consumption and reduce use of fossil fuels.

8. Promote a social and solidarity economy, with legal recognition and political support of not-for-profit properties, management, and economic civic, community and/or cooperative initiatives.

9. Promote fiscal and moral systems that encourage individual and business decisions designed to serve the remainder of objectives and penalize the contrary.

10. The strict implementation and application of equitable national and global tax systems that eliminate the unfair privileges enjoyed by transnational corporations and large fortunes, based on "Whoever has or made the most, pays more."

11. Simplify the payment of taxes and the equitable and transparent application of tax obligations for all formal and informal businesses, employees or property owners. 

E. Transition to a non-speculative financial system

1. The implementation of legal and regulatory instruments to ensure that money ceases to be a means of "profit for profit's sake", and instead becomes a service to ensure decent livelihoods for all humans.

2. Speculative financial activities to be criminalized and treated as environmental crimes and crimes against humanity. Accompany with a complete overhaul of the financial system to render it ethical, accountable and beneficial to citizens, especially the impoverished.

3. Implement criminal accountability and disqualification of bankers and financial brokers who have caused the crisis, with citizens (the unemployed, taxpayers, the homeless, the hungry, etc.) compensated by way of damages.

4. Banks should be required to be transparent regarding their financial investments to ensure they do not invest in companies and projects that involve an attempt on the life and dignity of individuals, societies and nature. Ethical banking and financial responsibility should be promoted.

5. Implement tax rates on large commercial transactions and foreign exchange operations.

6. The promotion of financial sovereignty, to socially favor grant-loans or investments without interest only to basic, responsible and sustainable real economy projects, rejecting speculative or non-sustainable operations.

7. The abolition of tax havens coupled with the persecution of business transactions taking place in tax havens, until they are abolished.

8. Regain the transparent and public capability to create money, limiting private banking money creation, with a commitment by governments to ensure equitable distribution of new funds.

9. Gradually introduce telematic currencies, informative and nominative money to facilitate public transparency and structurally fight corruption, bad governance and organized crime.

10. The recognition and support for non-monetary forms of exchange and community systems buying and selling goods.

F. Transition to a society of shared knowledge

1. Considering knowledge and the ability to generate it as a common heritage of mankind, to be boosted and taken care of.

2. Protecting and valuing cultural diversity and cultural heritage, particularly of indigenous peoples, which enable the search for sustainable solutions to the crisis thanks to a wealth of cultural wisdom.

3. Ensuring the right to access quality free basic education, as well as scientific and cultural events, with a focus on fostering creativity, critical inquiry, human values, and skills in preventing and transforming conflict.

4. Stopping and reversing the trend towards the monopoly and concentration of media and cultural industries, both a menace to democracy.

5. The recognition of the right of peoples to receive accurate, proven, independent and relevant information by the media (public, private and third sector).

6. The recognition of the right to communication of peoples, including the right of all persons to communicate by means of their choice and access to an adequate basic infrastructure.

7. The recognition and fulfillment of the universal right of access to the internet and other information technologies, as well as of net neutrality.

8. The recognition of the right to a limited advertising that is truthful and does not promote consumerism, and to non-alienating entertainment. Restrict advertising and financial dependence of public and community media.

9. The promotion of more open models of scientific research and creation, ones that promote production and free movement of knowledge.

G. Transition to a world without war or violence

1. The progressive, but drastic, reduction of weapons and resources devoted to military expenditure and arms production, and a parallel increase in civil and nonviolent peace forces and systems. Channeling these resources towards sovereign programs of economic and social development.

2. The implementation of measures to impose criminal accountability and structurally eliminate the total impunity at the supranational level of illegal trade in arms, capital, drugs and, above all, people.

3. Investing in a culture of peace, in ethics, and in respect for cultural diversity, in a generalized and shared effort to redirect education towards the formation of humanist values and the promotion of peaceful forms of coexistence.

4. Work towards peace, aiming to eliminate the structural causes of war and violence: gross inequality, exploitation, discrimination, corruption, economic policy, and the corporate policies and actions which deprive disempowered citizens of their sovereign resources.

5. The promotion of tolerance and respect for sexual, religious, ethnic and cultural diversity in all areas.

H. Transition to a fair globalization

1. Completely free poor countries from the bondage of debt, by renegotiation, unilateral cancellation or by default.

2. The urgent channeling of 1 percent of industrialized countries' GDP to build a compensation fund for the damages caused to developing countries and to recover the unpaid fees agreed in 1947 (the average contribution is only 0.35 percent).

3. The creation of an International Court of Climate and Environmental Justice to protect the rights of present and future generations, or the extension of the powers of the International Criminal Court.

4. The expansion of the powers of the International Criminal Court in order to deal with economic crimes that interfere with the life and health of individuals and peoples, and to prosecute corrupt rulers who impoverish countries.

5. The creation of a UN Committee on Taxation, to analyze and report financial transactions and tax frauds around the world.

6. The expansion of the powers of the International Criminal Court in order to deal with economic crimes that interfere with the life and health of individuals and peoples, and to prosecute corrupt rulers who impoverish countries.

7. The creation of a new international financial system and global reserve system, different from existing ones, with the democratization of the International Financial Institutions or their replacement by alternative institutions.

8. The establishment of an International Investment Agreement that includes working conditions, environmental compliance, fair trade and community benefits.

9. The establishment of an international agreement for the gradual opening up of borders for migratory flow and the protection of migrants.

H. Transition to a fair globalization

1. Completely free poor countries from the bondage of debt, by renegotiation, unilateral cancellation or by default.

2. The urgent channeling of 1 percent of industrialized countries' GDP to build a compensation fund for the damages caused to developing countries and to recover the unpaid fees agreed in 1947 (the average contribution is only 0.35 percent).

3. The creation of an International Court of Climate and Environmental Justice to protect the rights of present and future generations, or the extension of the powers of the International Criminal Court.

4. The expansion of the powers of the International Criminal Court in order to deal with economic crimes that interfere with the life and health of individuals and peoples, and to prosecute corrupt rulers who impoverish countries.

5. The creation of a UN Committee on Taxation, to analyze and report financial transactions and tax frauds around the world.

6. The expansion of the powers of the International Criminal Court in order to deal with economic crimes that interfere with the life and health of individuals and peoples, and to prosecute corrupt rulers who impoverish countries.

7. The creation of a new international financial system and global reserve system, different from existing ones, with the democratization of the International Financial Institutions or their replacement by alternative institutions.

8. The establishment of an International Investment Agreement that includes working conditions, environmental compliance, fair trade and community benefits.

9. The establishment of an international agreement for the gradual opening up of borders for migratory flow and the protection of migrants.

I. Transition to a democratic world governance

1. Move towards the integration of a world government, from international regional integration, with full respect for the sovereignty of each country.

2. The reaffirmation and effective implementation of human rights and human responsibilities with an adequate and up-to-date interpretation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all other instruments of international law, extending the so-called next-generation rights.

3. The consolidation of a stronger and more participative democratic global governance, including the reestablishment of the United Nations with a fundamentally revised Charter that is more inclusive, democratic and legitimate, and genuinely represents, includes and protects the world’s diverse peoples.

4. The renegotiation of existing economic and political treaties between nations and bring international regulatory bodies to fit it with the new objectives and conditions of social and human development.

5. The financing of all of these objectives, including alternative financing of the United Nations, should be achieved through the reduction of expenditure (on weapons) or costs (corruption, tax havens, trafficking); the increase of resources (social credit, financial transactions tax, sustainability tax and high income tax) or from rates from percentages of e-business, air transport, etc.