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For humanity and the planet to thrive, we need to empower women
07 March 2023 - There’s a golden rule for humanity, common across all major religions and societies: treat others as you would like to be treated. It is the bedrock of democracy and just legal systems. But when it comes to one part of society, this rule, it seems,...
19 May 2023 - Can you tell us a bit about yourself? How did you get involved in systems transformation work?
I am 33 years old, I was born in Argentina and from a very young age, I decided that I wanted to work to help change our current global systems. I studied ...
17 May 2023 - I want to start by giving credit to Ursula Van Der Leyen and her exemplary leadership. With the support of this house she has steered Europe through a global pandemic, towards a European Green Deal and steered Europe’s response to an ongoing war in Ukraine.
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17 May 2023 - Honourable Members, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Indeed, if we look back, a little over 50 years ago, The Club of Rome and a group of MIT researchers published The Limits to Growth report. It mapped the interaction between population growth, the economy and the ...
15 May 2023 - There is growing interest from policymakers globally in the adoption of new indicators that go beyond GDP, foster greater wellbeing and enable people to thrive within environmental limits. Today’s polycrisis is raising awareness that the current economic and ...
02 May 2023 - Do forests create rain? It is a question that has been debated for a long time. We know that trees produce huge amounts of water vapor that is pumped from humidity in the ground and condensed into clouds that generate rain, but the mechanisms that govern ...
24 April 2023 - We are facing a plethora of environmental emergencies. In addition to climate change, human activity is also negatively impacting the Earth’s soil and waterways through chemical pollution, urbanisation and the ever growing reach of industrial agriculture. At the ...
14 April 2023 - If humans are to survive and thrive, organizations must learn to become regenerative – a shift that will be nothing short of a rebirth for many, argues Carlos Álvarez Pereira of the Club of Rome. Here he offers advice on how to begin the transformation.
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12 April 2023 - The fact that the IPCC incorporates in its core business, risks of failure to the Earth system and to human civilisation, that we would not accept in our own lives, raises fundamental questions about the efficacy of the whole IPCC project. If low risks of failure ...
06 April 2023 - While many European countries press ahead with the clean energy transition, aiming to replace dependence on Russian gas with renewable energies, others such as Italy, seem more interested in signing new gas contracts with countries like Libya. The Italian ...
23 March 2023 - The negative environmental and social side-effects of our current development trajectory, typically based on a narrow focus on growing GDP, are well known. In a previous article we argued that GDP is indeed a problematic indicator for progress and discussed the ...
16 March 2023 - We are in a desperate race to avoid locking in a pathway to human extinction. This requires brutal honesty on the threats we face. Climate change, not China, Russia or the US, is the greatest threat the world faces; it will only be overcome with unprecedented ...
13 March 2023 - There is much debate presently in Europe about the transition towards a sustainable wellbeing economy that responds to the need for greater resilience, equity, ecological sustainability and societal wellbeing to better protect Europe’s citizens against economic, ...