STWR - Share The World's Resources

This section of the report 'Financing the Global Sharing Economy' argues that preventing the excessive leakage of revenues through tax avoidance and tax evasion is perhaps the first and most important step governments can take to secure additional financial resources and strengthen the sharing economy.

This section of the report 'Financing the Global Sharing Economy' on ending government support for fossil fuels and biofuels highlights the importance of transitioning to a low carbon economy, and demonstrates how governments could raise over $500bn each year for worthier social and environmental causes.

This section of the report 'Financing the Global Sharing Economy' on taxing financial speculation demonstrates how governments could raise as much as $650bn globally through a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to tackle poverty, reverse austerity measures and address climate change.

Part 3 of the report 'Financing the Global Sharing Economy' introduces the 10 policies that could enable the international community to mobilise more than $2.8 trillion within a short number of years, money that governments should use to strengthen and scale up the sharing economy both nationally and globally. 

Part 1 of the report 'Financing the Global Sharing Economy' demonstrates how systems of sharing are increasingly being eroded by policies that widen inequalities and leave families in a state of poverty or destitution across the world. STWR argue that the result is a global emergency that should be treated as a foremost global priority. 

A report by Share The World’s Resources demonstrates how governments could mobilise over $2.8 trillion each year to bolster the global sharing economy and prevent life-threatening deprivation, reverse austerity measures and mitigate the human impacts of climate change.