29 March 2024 - On March 18, oil and gas CEOs at the annual CERA week conference in Texas announced that the clean-energy transition is failing and that the world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of a fossil-fuel phaseout. Two days later, the world-renowned Carbon Tracker...
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27 February 2024 - If there was shock and awe last week when the Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that global average warming over the last twelve months — February 2023 to January 2024 — had exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C), it was likely because too many...
Of collaborative leadership and transformative sustainability
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Closing the loop for a sustainable future
08 February 2024 - How did you become involved with The Club of Rome ? I have been a full member for the last 10 years. My initial involvement was as a co-author of the report The Limits to Certainty, facing risks in the new service ecoinomy in 1989, which was...
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24 January 2024 - The Systems Transformation Hub, a pioneering venture designed to drive systemic solutions for Europe, was launched on 24 January 2024 at the European Parliament by a coalition of five thought-leading organisations. This comes at a pivotal time of...
How to close Africa’s generation gap
17 January 2024 - The average age in Africa is around 20. Yet, the average age of African leaders is over 60. Closing this generation gap, the biggest in the world, is vital to enable the continent to engage with the problems of the twenty-first century and to give...
Growing income inequality is driving public mistrust
16 January 2024 - This year’s World Economic Forum at Davos is focused on the theme of “rebuilding trust”. The topic could not be more timely, with public trust in governments still low in many countries. Yet if those gathered in Switzerland are serious about tackling...
Working towards sustainable tourism in the Americas
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