18 October 2021 - “It is unequivocal”, these are the first three words of the sixth IPCC report. The policy experts and scientist have never been clearer in describing the existential threat facing humanity. In fact, the World Meteorological Organisation recently...
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Life economies – an emerging opportunity for stewarding future
12 October 2021 - Life on our planet has brought about a strange species, loving and longing to be alive, yet equipped with the capacity to destroy each other and diminish the life support system. Yet, this strange species has so many other capacities – caring for...
The Club of Rome calls on EU to adopt wellbeing economics instead of growth at all costs
15 September 2021 - The global pandemic that has been ravaging the world for the past two years has brought about unprecedented change, but also presents valuable opportunities for building back a more resilient and sustainable world. The Club of Rome calls on the...
Latest IPCC report requires urgent halt to new fossil fuel production
27 August 2021 - Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the physical science of climate change, piling onto an already immense body of scientific literature that the climate crisis is dire. The new report...
Climate Change: will the financial system survive?
18 August 2021 - One of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal global response to the escalating climate crisis has been the preparedness of financial market regulators to force their regulated institutions to face up to the implications of climate risk. In so...
We must act now to deal with the planetary emergency
10 August 2021 - The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released on 9 August, provides new estimates of the chances of crossing the global warming level of 1.5°C in the next decades, and finds that unless there are immediate, rapid and...
Sustainable Finance Strategy Lacks Urgency
06 July 2021 - According to the Club of Rome, the latest European Commission finance strategy – "Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy" – does not go far enough to change Europe’s financial system to support the transformation of the economy...
G7: Value the future, stop crowd-funding catastrophe
10 June 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the world and brought immense suffering and economic chaos. A resilient, net-zero, nature-positive global economy[1] will be a critical driver of human health, well-being and prosperity[2] and must be at the heart of a...
Press Release: Fund Nature, Fund the Future
09 June 2021 - New Vivid Economics research shows how the EU’s recovery plans are missing a triple win opportunity for nature, climate and the economy 9th June, 2021 – New analysis released today from Vivid Economics, examining the EU Member States’ COVID-19...
Nobel Prize Summit: Transformational Economics – Valuing Our Future
22 April 2021 - Humanity is now the largest driver of change on Earth. To minimize risk of climate change and biodiversity loss, this next decade must see the fastest economic transformation in history and at a global scale. How does economic thinking accommodate...