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Prospects for a World of Declining GDP

Prospects for a World of Declining GDP

10 July 2020 - Our human species has lived on this earth for about 15,000 generations. Until 1750 there was essentially no growth in GDP per person. For 300,000 years average people experienced no overall improvement in welfare during their lifetimes. Only during the...

New Report to the Club of Rome Bildung – Keep Growing

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…

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...

Paint it brown

Paint it brown

18 June 2020 - After devising a taxonomy of green activities, the EU has been called on to create a ‘brown’ taxonomy. Would it be a help, or an unnecessary complication, asks Christopher Marchant First published in Environmental Finance Download the pdf...

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