Category: Trade

The EU referendum: six years on

Posted & a filed under Brexit, Economics, Elections, Government policy, Intergenerational fairness, Trade, Voting, Young people.

Today is six years since the EU referendum. In this blog, IF’s Digital Campaigns Officer, Liam Hill, considers the impact of the EU referendum on the UK’s economic and political landscape, and what effects the referendum and Brexit have had on intergenerational fairness. The events and the process Brexit has always been better seen as… Read more »

Anti-democratic clauses in trade deals are barriers to intergenerational environmental justice

Posted & a filed under Blog, Climate change, Economics, Finance, Future Generations, Global warming, Government policy, Intergenerational fairness, Natural resources, Trade, Wellbeing, Young people.

Part of the concept of intergenerational justice is that young people must be able to have a say in policy-making. Democratic systems must allow for their citizens to exert agency over economic and political processes in the first place, otherwise there would be no vehicle for translating the will of (young) people into action and… Read more »