{"id":23281,"date":"2023-11-12T21:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weall.org\/?p=23281"},"modified":"2023-11-15T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:21:55","slug":"systems-change-case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weall.org\/systems-change-case-studies","title":{"rendered":"Case studies of economic systems change in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"case1\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Adopting legislation that restores ecosystems and respects future generations<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/21\/ecuador-votes-to-halt-oil-drilling-in-amazonian-biodiversity-hotspot\">Ecuador&#8217;s \u201cRights of Nature\u201d<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>ruling has halted plans to mine for copper and gold in Los Cedros, a protected cloud forest are unconstitutional and violate the rights of nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/nov\/10\/eu-strikes-landmark-deal-nature-restoration-law\">The EU\u2019s new Nature Restoration Law<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will set targets to restore 20% of EU land and seas by 2030, and 90% of degraded habitats by 2050\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/victories\/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-soy-moratorium-success\/\">Brazil\u2019s \u2018soy moratorium\u2019<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>has produced a spectacular drop in Amazon deforestation. C<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ompanies have agreed not to buy soy from traders who get their supply from farmers who clear the rainforest, use slave labour or threaten Indigenous Lands<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futuregenerations.wales\/about-us\/future-generations-act\/\">Wales Future Generations Act<\/a> <\/span><\/b>requires public bodies to think about the long-term impact of their decisions and to prevent persistent problems such as poverty, health inequalities and climate change.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Similarly, the Balearic Islands\u2019 recent <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/intranet.caib.es\/eboibfront\/ca\/2023\/11722\/672155\/llei-10-2023-de-5-d-abril-de-benestar-per-a-les-ge\">Law for the Wellbeing of Present and Future Generations<\/a><\/strong><\/span> requires new policies to be assessed for their potential impacts on the ecological, economic and social wellbeing of present and future generations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"case2\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Evaluating economic success by its contribution to human and ecological wellbeing and adopting wellbeing frameworks<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/This-is-the-moment-to-go-Beyond-GDP-web-1.pdf\">primer on alternatives to GDP<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0outlines a wide range of approaches.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/ophi.org.uk\/policy\/bhutan-gnh-index\/\"><b>Bhutan\u2019s Gross National Happiness index<\/b><\/a><\/span> tracks progress in areas like health, education, ecological diversity and community vitality and is used as a policy tool screening tool.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weallscotland.org\/post\/new-zealand-introduces-fourth-wellbeing-budget\"><b><span style=\"color: #333399;\">New Zealand\u2019s Wellbeing Budgets<\/span><\/b><\/a> direct government spending towards agreed wellbeing goals and a wellbeing analysis is applied across all spending.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The city of <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/weall.org\/resource\/amsterdam-netherlands-measuring-a-wellbeing-economy\"><b>Amsterdam adopted Kate Raworth\u2019s \u201cdoughnut\u201d economic model<\/b><\/a><\/span> to plan its post-COVID recovery. The framework priorities meeting people\u2019s needs while respecting ecological limits.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/weall.org\/wego\">Wellbeing Economy Governments partnership (WEGo)<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is a collaboration of governments interested in sharing expertise and transferrable policy practices to advance their shared ambition of building Wellbeing Economies. The partnership includes Scotland, New Zealand, Iceland, Wales, Canada and Finland.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"case3\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Using participatory policy making and governance over natural resources and the commons, binding codes of conduct for Multi-national Corporations and corporate and financial transfer taxes<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The system of <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/weall.org\/resource\/porto-alegre-brazil-continuous-innovations-in-wellbeing-policy-design-and-implementation\"><b>Popular Citizen Participation in Canoas, Porto Alegre, Brazil<\/b><\/a><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b>exemplifies a comprehensive model of citizen participation, involving citizens in policy design, implementation, and assessment for the city&#8217;s sustainable development.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UN Human Rights Council has established an intergovernmental working group which is developing an <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-humanrights.org\/en\/big-issues\/binding-treaty\/#:~:text=In%20June%202014%2C%20the%20UN,corporations%20and%20other%20business%20enterprises\">international binding treaty to regulate the activities of\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>transnational corporations <\/strong><\/span>and other business enterprises with regards to human rights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/knowledge-hub.circle-economy.com\/article\/3624?n=Government-tax-break-program-for-repair\">Swedish government has introduced tax breaks on repairs<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for consumer goods, with the aim of inspiring people to fix their broken items rather than throwing them out. <\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Around the world, <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/ecocycle.org\/our-programs\/reducing-plastics\/producer-responsibility-for-plastics\/#:~:text=Producer%20Responsibility%20(sometimes%20called%20Extended,from%20local%20governments%20to%20producers\">producer responsibility policies<\/a><\/span><\/strong> are used to reduce plastics.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futurepolicy.org\/healthy-ecosystems\/biodiversity-and-soil\/brazil-cisterns-programme\/\"><b>Brazil\u2019s Cisterns Programme<\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>was introduced by<b>\u00a0<\/b>a social movement of over 3,000 civil society organizations to implement a model of large-scale mainstreaming of rainwater harvesting and installing 1 million cisterns to provide water for millions of rural people.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<div>A <b><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/weall.org\/citizen-led-carbon-budget-management\">Citizen-led carbon budget management system<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/b>would use several models that are already defined to put in the hands of the citizens the capacity to decide the decarbonization roadmap: how to allocate the emissions required to sort out their present and future needs.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"case4\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Redesigning economies as circular systems that eliminate waste and regenerate nature<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotterdaminnovationcity.com\/innovate\/circular\/\">Rotterdam\u00b4s experience of the Circular Economy<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>offers a groundbreaking approach.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/why-kamikatsu.jp\/en\/\">Kamikatsu, Japan, made a zero waste declaration back in 2023<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and has achieved an 80% recycling rate. The town sorts waste into 45 categories, and local artisans upcycle materials into new products.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acen.africa\/case-studies\"><b>Footprints Africa has collected hundreds of inspiring examples <\/b><\/a><\/span>of circular economy initiatives across the continent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"case5\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in clean energy<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/21\/ecuador-votes-to-halt-oil-drilling-in-amazonian-biodiversity-hotspot\">Ecuadorians recently voted to halt oil drilling<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in biodiverse Amazonian national park.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adopting legislation that restores ecosystems and respects future generations Ecuador&#8217;s \u201cRights of Nature\u201d ruling has halted plans to mine for copper and gold in Los Cedros, a protected cloud forest are unconstitutional and violate the rights of nature.\u00a0 The EU\u2019s new Nature Restoration Law will set targets to restore 20% of EU land and seas [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23281"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23353,"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281\/revisions\/23353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weall.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}