29 June 2022 - Europe’s addiction to fossil fuel corrodes our energy security and locks us into a pathway of irreversible and hostile change to our planet’s climate. Emissions from gas, oil and coal bombard our planet’s oceans with heat equal to five Hiroshima-size...
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A living systems approach to achieving global equity for a healthy planet
23 June 2022 - Until political and business leaders accept – and act on the knowledge – that we are all part of an interdependent living system, we cannot achieve global equity or a healthy planet. The good news is that The Club of Rome has identified turnaround...
The IPCC has called for decolonisation – the climate change industry must start now!
16 June 2022 - On April 4th 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth assessment report, which for the first time cited “historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism” as a driver of vulnerability to climate change...
From The Limits to Growth to Regeneration 2030
07 June 2022 - Fifty years ago, Italian business leaders in the Club of Rome gave a jolt to the world in their path-breaking report The Limits to Growth. That thought leadership continues today as Italian business leaders launch Regeneration 2030, a powerful call for...
Eco-infrastructure – A transformational opportunity for investors
30 May 2022 - Fifty years ago, a team of MIT scientists identified that human decision-making was luring our entire population slowly but inexorably toward environmental disaster. Through the first ever computer model of the world, they showed that the relentless...
Stockholm+50 – A healthy planet for the prosperity of all
27 May 2022 - On 2 and 3 June 2022, Stockholm hosted an international environmental meeting with the theme: A healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity. Stockholm+50 will commemorate the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human...
The Dominoes are falling fast. We face a climate emergency
23 May 2022 - The belated release of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s “Reef snapshot: summer 2021-22” has exposed the Federal government’s insistence that the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is not endangered as the lie it has always been. But beneath the...
Putting systems thinking at the heart of a global green and just transition
19 May 2022 - In 1972, the seminal report to The Club of Rome – The Limits to Growth – was the first study to explore the possible impacts of the growing ecological footprint of population growth, human activities and its physical impacts on our finite planet from a...
What a 50-year-old world model tells us about a way forward today
17 May 2022 - My research went viral last summer. I found out via a friend’s text, jokingly accusing me of “announcing the end of the world.” For several days, headlines on major US news pages declared that my research proved we are on the brink of collapse. A few...
Why equitable global systems hold the key to Europe’s vision for a green and just Europe
13 May 2022 - If the European Green Deal is to succeed, the EU must be a driving force in developing sustainable economic systems and societal wellbeing both at home and across the planet. This is the key message from the International System Change Compass - The...