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International trade agreements must include binding, independently enforceable labour and environmental standards.

Restrictive zoning and planning regulations are the primary cause of housing unaffordability in most major cities.

A universal basic income set at the poverty line would reduce poverty more effectively than current means-tested benefit systems.

A direct annual tax on net wealth above a high threshold is necessary to address asset concentration that income taxation alone cannot reach.

Generative AI systems capable of producing realistic synthetic media should be required to embed detectable watermarks in their outputs.

Training AI systems on personal data without explicit opt-in consent should be prohibited under data protection law.

Global AI safety governance requires a binding multilateral treaty process, not voluntary national commitments.

AI-driven automation will displace significantly more jobs than it creates this decade, requiring fundamental redesign of social insurance systems.

AI developers should bear strict legal liability for foreseeable harms caused by their deployed systems, as manufacturers do for physical products.

Open-source release of the most powerful AI model weights creates security risks that outweigh the benefits of public access.

Frontier AI systems capable of causing large-scale harm should be required to pass independent safety evaluations before public deployment.

Geoengineering approaches such as solar radiation management should be governed by international treaty before any country deploys them at scale.

New licensing of fossil fuel extraction should end immediately in countries that have made legally binding net-zero commitments.

Meeting 1.5°C temperature targets requires major demand-side changes in diet, aviation, and consumption — not only clean energy supply.

Biodiversity loss is as serious a long-term threat to human welfare as climate change and warrants equivalent policy priority and funding.

A carbon price set at or near the social cost of carbon is more economically efficient than sector-by-sector emission regulations.

Nuclear power must be retained and expanded in most countries as part of a credible path to electricity decarbonisation by 2050.

Developed countries have not met their $100 billion annual climate finance pledge and owe developing nations substantially more in adaptation and loss-and-damage funding.

France should make French Sign Language (LSF) a recognised medium of instruction and increase resources for inclusive schooling.

Philosophy as a compulsory baccalauréat subject is a distinctive strength of French secondary education that should be retained.