تابع رؤية 2030
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أعلنت <a href="https://www.alyaum.com/articles/6663427/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A4%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%88%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86" target="_blank">وزارة الشؤون الإسلامية</a> والدعوة والإرشاد اكتمال مغادرة <a href="https://www.alyaum.com/articles/6664985/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86" target="_blank">ضيوف برنامج خادم الحرمين</a> الشريفين للحج والعمرة والزيارة، المستضافين من 104 دول، بعد أن منّ الله عليهم بأداء <a href="https://www.alyaum.com/articles/6664898/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85/%D8%A8%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A8%D9%84-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AC" target="_blank">مناسك الحج</a> وزيارة المسجد النبوي الشريف والسلام على رسول الله -صلّى الله عليه وسلّم -، في أجواء إيمانية سادها الأمن والطمأنينة.<br />وجرت <a href="https://www.alyaum.com/articles/6664985/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86" target="_blank">مغادرة الضيوف</a> عبر مطار الأمير محمد بن عبدالعزيز الدولي بالمدينة المنورة وفق منظومة خدمية اتسمت بالانسيابية والتنظيم، وذلك عقب رحلة إيمانية متكاملة اشتملت على برامج ثقافية متنوعة وزيارات ميدانية للمعالم الإسلامية والتاريخية في مكة المكرمة والمدينة المنورة، ضمن منظومة متكاملة من الخدمات والرعاية وفرتها الوزارة تنفيذًا لتوجيهات القيادة الرشيدة أيدها الله.<h2>عناية واهتمام المملكة بالضيوف</h2>وأعرب ضيوف البرنامج عن بالغ شكرهم وامتنانهم لخادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك سلمان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود، ولصاحب السمو الملكي الأمير محمد بن سلمان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود ولي العهد رئيس مجلس الوزراء -حفظهما الله-، على ما وجدوه من عناية واهتمام وحفاوة كريمة مكّنتهم من أداء مناسك الحج بكل يسر وراحة.<br />وشددوا على أن القيادة الرشيدة تسعى دائمًا إلى ترسيخ معاني الأخوة الإسلامية من خلال دعم المسلمين ومساندتهم وتلمّس احتياجاتهم.<br /> <h2>تنظيم متقن وخدمات متكاملة</h2>وأكد الضيوف أن ما لمسوه من تنظيم متقن وخدمات متكاملة يعكس الجهود الكبيرة التي تبذلها المملكة العربية السعودية في خدمة الإسلام والمسلمين ورعاية ضيوف الرحمن.<br />وأشادوا بالدور الذي تؤديه وزارة الشؤون الإسلامية والدعوة والإرشاد، في تقديم أرقى الخدمات التوعوية والتنظيمية، وحسن الضيافة والرعاية طوال فترة استضافتهم، داعين الله أن يحفظ المملكة وقيادتها، وأن يديم عليها نعمة الأمن والاستقرار.

From 5h ago 14.38 CEST Hezbollah leader rejects latest ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Lebanon Qassem said that Hezbollah has rejected the latest ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and the Lebanese government, demanding a complete Israeli withdrawal. In a written statement read on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV on Thursday, the Iran-backed group’s leader said the agreement’s demand that Hezbollah fighters leave southern Lebanon under fire would mean “surrender, defeat and achieving the enemy’s goals.” “What we are concerned about is an end to the aggression, ceasefire and Israel’s withdrawal,” he said. “We did not make any commitment to any party to stop resisting as long as there is occupation,” he added. Share 1h ago 18.31 CEST Closing summary Iran’s supreme leader Motjaba Khamenei said in a written statement read out by a cleric that “the enemy is experiencing a meaningful and profound humiliation in the field and the streets, and it is now focused on trickery.” “After Iran was able to repel the enemy, who was defeated on the battlefield, it now seeks to undermine the resilience of the Iranian people and sow discord. The US created a military base called Israel, and Iran will not back down from its stance toward Israel,” Khamenei wrote. Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Thursday that as long as Lebanese villages were being bombed and people were being killed , northern Israel will not be safe. It comes as Israeli strikes killed at least four people in Lebanon, according to local authorities, and a UN peacekeeper was killed in the crossfire on Thursday. Qassem also said that Hezbollah has rejected the latest ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and the Lebanese government, demanding a complete Israeli withdrawal. In a written statement read on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV on Thursday, the Iran-backed group’s leader said the agreement’s demand that Hezbollah fighters leave southern Lebanon under fire would mean “surrender, defeat and achieving the enemy’s goals.” Donald Trump has brushed off a House vote to rein in his powers to attack Iran without approval from Congress (see post at 12:34), saying it was “ meaningless ”. He singled out the four Republicans who joined Democrats to pass the bill in a vote of 215 to 208 yesterday. Lebanese prime minister Nawaf Salam said that the army would begin deploying in ‘pilot zones’ in the country’s south, a day after Israel and Lebanon agreed in Washington to implement a ceasefire. “The next step is practical and tangible: the deployment of the Lebanese army in pilot zones as a first phase,” Salam said, according to remarks read out by information minister Paul Morcos after a cabinet meeting, adding that “this does not prejudice our right to a full [Israeli] withdrawal, but brings us closer to it”. Israel’s Supreme Court has said Israel must allow visits to Palestinian prisoners by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ruling in favour of a petition against a ban that was brought in at the start of the Gaza war. The bar on Red Cross visits to Palestinian detainees has restricted independent verification of their treatment, following reports of systemic abuse, starvation, and denial of medical care towards Palestinian prisoners. The UN peacekeeper who was killed in southern Lebanon (see post at 10:08) has been identified as a Serbian soldier. The Serbian defence ministry issued a statement naming the soldier as Milovan Jovanović. The UN nuclear watchdog has sent a report to member states repeating its calls on Iran to urgently inform the agency of the fate of its enriched uranium since its atomic sites were bombed a year ago and let inspections resume fully. “The [International Atomic Energy Agency] director-general has emphasised to Iran that it is indispensable and urgent to implement effectively the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) Safeguards Agreement... and that its implementation cannot be suspended by Iran under any circumstances,” the confidential report, seen by Reuters, said. Four Iranian-flagged oil tankers passed through the strait of Hormuz on Monday, a first since 15 April and the US blockade of Iranian ports, according to maritime tracking firm Kpler. In data published on Thursday, the firm detected the passage of the Hilda I, the Amber, the Silvia 1, and the Happiness I, which were carrying a total of seven million barrels of oil. In Gaza, at least nine people have been killed in overnight Israeli strikes, including members of the same family, according to Palestinian health officials. They were killed in at least four separate strikes in Gaza City, the al-Shifa hospital said, which received the bodies. Five members of one family were killed in a strike north-east of the city, the hospital reported, adding that 15 others were injured in the attacks. Share 1h ago 18.13 CEST Joseph Gedeon Donald Trump has two things to say about his war with Iran. The first is that it’s already over. And second, a symbolic congressional vote to end it – carried by four members of his own party – is a stab in the back that could derail the peace talks he’s conducting for the war that’s already over. By a 215-208 margin on Wednesday, the US House of Representatives voted to direct the president to withdraw US forces from hostilities with Iran, the first time either chamber has passed such a measure in the little over three months since Operation Epic Fury began on 28 February. By Thursday morning, Trump was on Truth Social calling the vote “unpatriotic” and blaming it on “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. The four Republicans who crossed the aisle, each with different ideologies, don’t exactly fit the bill for such a diagnosis. Thomas Massie of Kentucky is a libertarian-leaning constitutionalist who has opposed the war from day one, lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, and has, in Trump’s estimation, nothing left to lose. Warren Davidson of Ohio is a West Point graduate, former army ranger, and ex-Freedom Caucus member who voted against the war with Massie in March, but flipped back until recently. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, a former FBI agent representing Philadelphia’s suburbs, is well known as a moderate who framed his vote in the plainest possible terms “You either follow the law, or you change the law,” he said. “You can’t violate the law. That’s not an option.” Trump’s Iran war messaging is not winning over Americans – or their representatives Read more Share 2h ago 17.50 CEST Four Iranian-flagged oil tankers passed through the strait of Hormuz on Monday, a first since 15 April and the US blockade of Iranian ports, according to maritime tracking firm Kpler. In data published on Thursday, the firm detected the passage of the Hilda I, the Amber, the Silvia 1, and the Happiness I, which were carrying a total of seven million barrels of oil. They all loaded their cargo in mid-April on Kharg Island, the country’s main oil terminal, through which 90% of the Islamic republic’s crude oil normally transits. The ships crossed the strait on Monday with their AIS transponders turned off. Share Updated at 17.51 CEST 2h ago 17.26 CEST Israel’s Supreme Court has said Israel must allow visits to Palestinian prisoners by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ruling in favour of a petition against a ban that was brought in at the start of the Gaza war. The bar on Red Cross visits to Palestinian detainees has restricted independent verification of their treatment, following reports of systemic abuse, starvation, and denial of medical care towards Palestinian prisoners. “We take note of the decision of the court and stand ready to resume our work in visiting detainees in Israeli places of detention,” said Patrick Griffiths, a spokesperson for the ICRC. The ruling, which was issued late on Wednesday and covers those held in Israeli prisons and military detention, followed a joint petition by several Israeli rights organisations including the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) to end the ban. Share 3h ago 17.02 CEST Sanam Vakil The US-Iran ceasefire is entering yet another round of escalation since it came into effect on 8 April. This week, there have been further strikes on Iran by the US, and Iranian retaliation on Kuwait and Bahrain, alongside Israeli escalation in Lebanon. Earlier flare-ups over the past two months were quickly contained. Both sides have tried to keep the balance between no war and no peace. But as this ceasefire drags on it risks becoming yet another Middle East stalemate, albeit one with international economic and political consequences. Four obstacles are preventing progress. The first is trust. Iran does not believe Donald Trump can deliver a deal, much less stick to one. The fear is not only that Washington will walk away again but that the goalposts will keep moving, where first nuclear limits are imposed, followed by missiles, then regional policy and finally further political concessions dressed up as security guarantees. The second obstacle is the absence of meaningful contact. Since the Islamabad meeting in April between the US vice-president, JD Vance, and Iran’s speaker of the parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, there has been no direct channel capable of turning political signals into compromise. Instead, negotiations are moving through regional mediators and a serial exchange of proposals. The third obstacle is the gap between what each side needs. Iran wants details and commitments, such as which sanctions will be lifted, when revenues will be unfrozen, how enforcement will work, and what protection will exist against another US reversal. Trump wants a faster and looser memorandum of understanding that can be announced and sold as a breakthrough. One side is searching for guarantees and the other for a headline and victory. The fourth obstacle is domestic politics. Any agreement between Iran and the US is toxic for both sides. In Washington, it will be attacke

الرياض - مباشر: شهدت جلسة التداول بسوق الأسهم السعودي في آخر جلسات الأسبوع، ضغوطاً بيعية واضحة تركزت في عدد من الأسهم القيادية والمتوسطة، في القطاعات الصناعية والاستثمارية والعقارية. وأنهى مؤشر سوق الأسهم السعودية (تاسي) تعاملات جلسة نهاية الأسبوع على تراجع نسبته 0.11% ليفقد نحو 12.08 نقطة من قيمته هبط بها إلى مستوى 10,990.45 نقطة. وتصدر سهم شركة المملكة القابضة قائمة الأسهم الأكثر تراجعاً في السوق، حيث سجل السهم انخفاضاً بلغت نسبته 5.01%، لينهي التداولات عند سعر 14.6 ريال، وبلغت القيمة المتداولة على السهم نحو 118.97 مليون ريال، ناتجة عن تداول 8.32 مليون سهم، مما عكس ضغطاً قوياً من جانب البائعين على السهم خلال الساعات الأخيرة من الجلسة. وفي قطاع الطاقة، سجل سهم شركة بترو رابغ تراجعاً ملموساً بنسبة 4.81%، ليغلق عند مستوى 15.03 ريال وحل السهم في مرتبة متقدمة من حيث النشاط والقيمة، حيث بلغت السيولة الخارجة منه نحو 116.04 مليون ريال عبر تداول 7.65 مليون سهم، ويأتي هذا التراجع في ظل عمليات بيع مكثفة شهدها السهم أدت إلى هبوطه دون مستويات الدعم السابقة خلال تداولات اليوم، متأثراً بضعف الطلب في قطاع الطاقة. كما شملت قائمة التراجعات سهم شركة الشرق الأوسط لصناعة وإنتاج الورق (مبكو)، الذي انخفض بنسبة 3.97% ليصل إلى سعر 18.39 ريال وسجل السهم تداولات بقيمة 24.13 مليون ريال، حيث تم تداول 1.3 مليون سهم. وفي قطاع المواد الأساسية، تراجع سهم شركة ينساب بنسبة 2.21% ليغلق عند 31.8 ريال، محققاً قيمة تداولات بلغت 31.86 مليون ريال من خلال تداول 1 مليون سهم، مما ساهم في زيادة الضغط على مؤشر القطاع البتروكيماوي بشكل عام. أما في القطاع العقاري، انخفض سهم الشركة العقارية السعودية بنسبة 2.08% ليغلق عند 16.02 ريال بقيمة تداولات بلغت 9.36 مليون ريال وحجم تداول وصل إلى 0.58 مليون سهم، وتبعه سهم شركة مدينة المعرفة الاقتصادية الذي تراجع بنسبة 2.04% ليغلق عند 11.52 ريال، مسجلاً قيمة تداولات بلغت 4.07 مليون ريال وكمية تداول بلغت 0.35 مليون سهم.

In our increasingly dystopian world, who wouldn’t want to at least be open to a utopian antidote? The World Justice Report, published on Thursday, outlines how to build a prosperous, equitable world within safe planetary boundaries. It’s a push from the modern eco-socialist left in a global battle for ideas that will shape the future. Based on past social achievements and future energy transformation, it indicates that the overwhelming majority of people on the planet could, by the end of the century, work less and earn more while keeping temperatures down and avoiding much of the current destruction of nature. It is an ambitious, comprehensive and upbeat plan, and a stronger argument around which to build a political campaign than abstract goals of “net zero” or “decarbonisation”. By incorporating important concepts of “sufficiency” and “planetary habitability”, it also addresses the fundamental question of how to reduce the material impact of economic activity – a topic long ignored by the traditional left. While critics will question the feasibility of this vision because it relies on a radical reform of global financial institutions and massive wealth taxes – both of which have long been dismissed as unthinkable by rich nations – there can be no worthwhile assessment of its value without considering the far bleaker alternatives offered by the far right and the old left. Chief among them is the far-right techno-extractivist vision currently being championed by the US president and his supporters in Silicon Valley, who are putting artificial intelligence ahead of renewable technology. In the quest for “energy dominance”, the US is now using tariffs and military power to widen markets for oil, gas and coal. This strategy of literally concentrating power in the hands of billionaires is driving the world towards catastrophic levels of global heating and inequality. Thomas Piketty, one of the coordinators of the report, said the ambition of the mega-rich has become unrealistic and undesirable. “People realise this is simply not working. If the billionaires and the centimillionaires of the world were conducting our economy, investing the money in a way that brings us to a fantastic future with planetary habitability, rising wages and better housing conditions and health conditions for all, then everybody would be happy to give them the keys. But that’s not what we see. Their new dream is to cover the entire planet with data centres. This is their economic project for the world. But everybody can see that this is just going to increase the material footprint of our economy, that this is going to make global warming even worse.” The report also fills a hole that has existed since the inception of the global climate science infrastructure in the 1990s. One of the architects of that system, the British chemist Robert Watson, who is also a former chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told me that if he could go back in time and change anything, it would be to add more social scientists. Initially, he said, the “pure scientists” from the fields of physics and chemistry naively believed the data alone would be enough to persuade governments to act, but they later came to wish they had taken more account of social dynamics, economics, politics and psychology. This flaw has choked public support for climate action, said Piketty, who is a global authority on inequality and author of the bestselling 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century: “There’s been this illusion of what we call a classless ecology, the sort of green growth illusion that everything is going to be solved by producing more and more and without worrying about the distribution, without worrying about sufficiency, without worrying about structural sectoral transformation. And this illusion has made green policy very unpopular for many lower income, middle income voters.” The Global Justice Report goes further than any previous study in addressing that shortcoming. It is also an exercise in human idealism and imagination, both of which are under ever more pressure from social media algorithms, AI and the transactional cynicism of far right politicians and business executives. Although based on well-established metrics for GDP, inequality and climate science, it widens the definition of prosperity and heightens the importance of “sufficiency” to show that quality of life is more valuable than quantity of material goods. This echoes ancient philosophies of a “golden mean,” Indigenous beliefs in the inextricable connection between human and natural wellbeing, as well as experiments in Bhutan of an economy based on “gross national happiness”. “We try to capture the reality that happiness is not just determined by economic metrics. Preserving a habitable earth does not just have a monetary benefit. You can make life better if you have more time to spend with family or in nature,” Cornelia Mohren, the Environmental Coordinator of the World Inequality Lab, said. “Sufficiency does not mean degrowth,” she says. “It is about less working hours, a different composition of consumption, and more health and education.” That will be challenged by the traditional left, which has long-tended to set goals of ever higher GDP, personal consumption and infrastructure spending, and the right, which baulks at any suggestion of planetary boundaries or lower material productivity. The authors say they welcome the debate. The report will be open for suggestions and revisions. “We don’t want to force people to change their lifestyle. It has to come with a cultural shift in the way we perceive the good life,” Mohren said. “There are majorities, even in the US that support some form of global justice, that don’t just care about themselves, but about the world.” Piketty said past social mobilisations had shown how quickly improvements can be made. With pressure also likely to come from climate breakdown, he said it was important to initiate debates now so that alternatives are already in people’s minds and will become more palatable in the future. “There will be crises. I think that’s for sure,” he said. “People need to get accustomed to the fact that big change will happen in any case.... We are not in a situation where things can just continue as they are forever.”

Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival. The new report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) aims to be the most comprehensive attempt yet to navigate the polycrisis that is pushing the world toward climate breakdown, political extremism and ever greater economic and social tension. View image in fullscreen A drone view shows the stark inequality between neighbourhoods in Santa Fe, Mexico City Photograph: Raquel Cunha/Reuters It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health. If these and other measures are taken, the report says 89% of the world population would see their incomes double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C above the preindustrial average. The authors say their vision provides a positive alternative to the grim projections from far-right techno extractivists, nationalists and billionaires who claim the future will inevitably bring more fossil fuels, climate disruption and inequality. “There’s a huge cultural, intellectual, political battle that is going on. And we all have a role to play,” said Thomas Piketty, co-director of the WIL and professor at the Paris School of Economics. View image in fullscreen Economics professor Thomas Piketty says Trump-style policies will end in disaster. Photograph: Ed Alcock “The ideology, which we see with Trump and all the little Trumps that we have all across Europe and all across the world is simply not going to deliver. At the end of the day we’ll have to come to this kind of cooperative redistribution of resources and power because the alternative will simply lead to disastrous outcomes both on the environment, on the climate, but also on social grounds. The Global Justice Report, published on Thursday, tries to overcome the shortcomings of mainstream approaches to the polycrisis, including the overly materialistic emphasis of traditional leftist parties, the questionable efficacy of the economic degrowth proposed by many ecologists and the lack of social impact studies by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report aims to rectify those limitations by incorporating inequality studies, climate science and proposals for creating a political coalition capable of reforming the world’s financial architecture. View image in fullscreen A wildfire in California. The report addresses the climate crisis as well as social justice. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This “plan for equality and prosperity within planetary boundaries” is the product of 45 authors based on databases compiled by more than 200 researchers from the world. At its core is the concept of sufficiency – the idea that people can enjoy a prosperous, healthy life without constantly striving to consume or accumulate more material possessions that degrade the natural world on which all life depends. To achieve this, the authors envisage three steps: more than halving average working time from 2,100 hours a year to 1,000 hours, roughly equivalent to a two-and-a-half-day working week; encouraging people to eat less red meat, which is the main driver of deforestation and ecological destruction; and refocusing the economy toward low-consumption activities by more than doubling education spending to €8,400 euros (£7,250) a person and healthcare spending to 14,400 euros. Piketty said: “One extra euro of GDP in education and health has three to four times less material footprint and energy consumption than one extra euro of GDP in the manufacturing sector. So that’s why the sectoral shifts are hugely important.” Tackling inequality is a central goal. The plan sees an average per capita gross national income across the world of €5,000 a month by the end of the century – an increase for almost everyone and with the greatest gains to be seen in the global south. The exception is the megarich, who would be highly taxed because they are most responsible for the climate crisis. The share of global wealth held by billionaires, who make up only 0.001% of the world population, would fall from 6% to 0.05%, while the bottom 50% would see their share of wealth increase from 2% to 30%. The other priority is reducing climate risks by cutting emissions as close to zero as possible. The report takes three mid-century scenarios for decarbonisation outlined by the International Energy Agency and projects them to 2100. Under its most ambitious plan, capital is redirected from the world’s wealthiest individuals and invested in wind, solar and other renewable technologies to accelerate the complete decarbonisation and electrification of energy supplies by 2050. Further emissions savings would come from a reduction in working hours and the shift in diets and economic activity. This is projected to keep global temperature rises to 1.8C by the end of the century – considerably lower than the catastrophic 4C to 4.5C estimates under scenarios of slow decarbonisation and ever-increasing demand for material goods. It is also better than the 1.9C projected under a scenario of across-the-board economic degrowth. Key among the practical steps needed to achieve the report’s goals would be the creation of a global justice fund to finance the energy transition and oversee an increase in education and healthcare spending to 38% of world GDP, up from 13% today. This work would be supported by a world sovereign fund, which would rebalance global holdings of public and private wealth closer to proportions last seen in 1970. “A habitable, equal 21st century is materially possible,” the report concludes. “What stands in the way is not technical impossibility but political choice and the hard but crucial work of building a coalition behind it.” Cornelia Mohren, a co-author and environmental coordinator at the WIL, acknowledged the report was “visionary and maybe utopian” but said this was necessary to show other paths were possible. “It is good to know we can combine an equal world with staying within carbon budgets,” she said. “That is a very helpful result. It makes me feel hopeful. We saw what’s possible and we also see how hard it is with this political reality, which can be depressing.” Piketty said recent history showed the goals of the report were plausible. Countries such as Sweden and Norway were once extremely divided economically but have made rapid progress in reducing inequality thanks to government policies and a refocusing of investment toward education and health, while working hours in Europe have halved since the 19th century, which is in line with the goal envisaged in the report. The key, Piketty added, was to address inequality and planetary habitability together. Without that twin approach, he said governments would risk repeating the mistakes that caused the Yellow Vest protests in France against a carbon tax that would have hit working and middle-class people more than the rich. “If you don’t put this at the centre of your analysis and if you talk about green policies, environment, in the abstract, this is simply not going to work,” he added. The report will be unveiled and discussed at the World Inequality Conference from 4-6 June in Paris, with speakers including Ha-Joon Chang, Jean Drèze, Jayati Ghosh, Mariana Mazzucato, Branko Milanović, Lea Ypi and Gabriel Zucman. Jason Hickel, a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting senior fellow at LSE, said: “It’s an important and timely intervention. All of this is technically feasible to achieve – we can have good lives for all within planetary boundaries – but it will require organised political struggle to make it happen.”