22 November 2021 - Science tells us that we now have at best 10 years to navigate a significant change of course or trigger tipping points in Earth’s natural systems from which there is no return. We are not dealing with a broken system in need of repair. We are...
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A Theory of Community: The Foundation of a 21st Century Economics for a 21st Century Civilization
26 November 2020 - We humans are a remarkable species with an extraordinary drive to understand ourselves and our place in a complex and evolving universe. In search of such understanding, we develop cultural narratives that express our shared understanding of who we...
Value, values and valuations: Beyond the African debt cancellation paradigm
19 November 2020 - A recalculated global debt exchange The West may be behind on debt/equity swaps with Africa. But this is obfuscated by the pervasiveness of the western paradigm of counting only what can be counted. Africa may even be willing to offer the West a...
Finding a Way
23 July 2020 - Will Peoples’ Responses to the Emergencies of the Coming Decades be Warm? Or Cold? by Nora Bateson & Mamphela Ramphele; First published in Medium.com The crises of the moment do not need further description here. Suffice to say that the complexity...
Club of Rome Solidarity Statement with the Movement for Black Lives Matter
29 June 2020 - As countless people around the world take to the streets to raise their voices in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd, the Club of Rome and its members from 30 different countries are issuing a statement in support of the Black Lives Matter...
New Report to the Club of Rome Bildung – Keep Growing
23 June 2020 - In the new report to the Club of Rome Bildung – Keep Growing the author Lene Rachel Andersen argues that we need a 21st c Bildung to reinforce individual and community resilience in the face of our global challenges from environmental crises to...
There and back again…
22 June 2020 - This week, the United Nations Office at Geneva and the World Academy of Art and Science held a virtual conference called Strategies for Transformative Global Leadership. There is an urgent need to fill the global leadership vacuum in order to address...
Crafting The Post COVID World
29 May 2020 - We will emerge from this emergency. When we do, what kind of a world do we want to create? By CoR Members Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Hunter Lovins, Mamphela Ramphele This article was first published The Solutions Journal COVID-19 is killing hundreds of...
L’Europe face au coronavirus
28 April 2020 - Club of Rome Co-President Sandrine Dixson-Declève participated in the TV show Vox Pop (Arte) to discuss the consequences of Covid-19 for Europe. The show is available online in French and German.
Emergence from emergency: The case for a holistic economic recovery plan
24 March 2020 - Climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation are contributing drivers behind pandemics. Like COVID-19, these cross-cutting challenges do not observe national borders and can be managed only through collective action, write Sandrine...