Environmental rights are inseparable from political rights, economic empowerment, and social justice. So the elimination of poverty and the reduction of inequality are central to any strategy for sustainable development. This requires interlinked strategies: significantly increase public investment in crucial social sectors as well as in climate alleviation; more progressive taxation policies involving fair taxation of multinational companies and the super-rich; providing more countries in need access to foreign exchange by regular and directed allocations of the International Monetary Fund’s reserve asset, Special Drawing Rights, and dealing with the sovereign-debt overhang. This would enable national policies that use regulation and redistribution to enable economic and social well-being that is in harmony with nature and the planet.