Edinburgh, Jocelyne Sze, PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield, Robert Fletcher, Associate Professor, Wageningen University
Edinburgh (UK), May 22 (The Conversation) Imagine governments were to simply transfer money, unconditionally, to people living in or using key conservation areas throughout the world, from Indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest to cattle herders roaming the plains of East Africa or fisherfolk living in coastal Indonesia.
This is the conservation basic income (CBI) — a recent proposal modelled on the popular concept of a universal basic income.
We have calculated a global CBI would cost at least USD 351 billion each year, and […]
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