QUNO works for economic systems that improve livelihoods, strengthen resilience, and ensure just transitions to sustainability. The ways in which we design and implement economic systems have critical impacts on sustainability, peace, and justice. QUNO strives to foster economic systems that deliver prosperity for all. This means that those economic systems improve livelihoods, strengthen resilience, and ensure just transitions to sustainability for the most vulnerable stakeholders. To this end, we seek human-centric and system approaches in areas such as agriculture & fisheries, economy-environment interactions, and trade & investment.
The Sustainable and Just Economic Systems (SJES) programme supports multilateral efforts to shape global economic governance in ways that promote peace, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Building on QUNO’s long-standing work on trade and development, the programme examines how public finance, trade rules, and economic incentives—particularly subsidies—affect people and the planet.
SJES contributes to international discussions on ending plastic pollution, reforming environmentally harmful subsidies, and supporting more transparent and inclusive policy-making. We engage through quiet diplomacy, policy dialogue, and targeted research that bridges technical expertise with Quaker values of integrity, equality, and stewardship.
