accountaBILITY
accountaBILITY
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Support policies and mechanisms that hold States and corporations accountable
Support policies and mechanisms that hold States and corporations accountable
Transparency is the basis of empowering and organising citizens to effectively oversee the state and private companies, and enables accountability for the way that these policies and mechanisms are implemented. It can also mitigate against the culture of corruption, mediocrity, nepotism, clientelism etc. which is a big part of preventing self determination in Global South countries.
Proposals for structural change (
set of policies, practices and investments)
Proposals for structural change (
set of policies, practices and investments)
Transparency of decision making by regulatory bodies (local, regional, national, international).
Advertising and sponsorship that promotes consumerism in general, and by industries driving the climate crisis in particular (such as fossil fuel companies, agribusiness, plastics), is banned.
Economic policies must encourage minimum standards of durability, repairability, and upgradeability of our products with public access to information, such as instruction manuals and the provision of spare parts.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) shifts the burden away from individuals and public authorities, and end of pipe solutions. It holds the corporate sector accountable for their products throughout their entire life cycle and enables upstream solutions. It can also ease the conflict between longevity and the need for reparability, recyclability and disassembling.
Responsibility for supply chains down to raw materials is a key part of this, starting with transparency of suppliers lists and pollution data, and includes worker rights, fair pay and conditions, environmental impacts and accountability for these.
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