09 December 2024 - The Club of Rome, a platform for leading scientists, economists, policy and business leaders to collaborate and promote leading edge thinking, has elected Silvia Zimmermann del Castillo as its new co-president. Zimmermann del Castillo is an Argentinean writer, ...
05 December 2024 - The new Von der Leyen II Commission, which took office yesterday, is tasked with leading a shift towards a greener, more secure, and competitive EU economy. On the first day after inauguration, the Systems Transformation Hub – a pioneering partnership of ...
22 November 2024 - Club of Rome member Mathis Wackernagel has been awarded the 2024 Sustainability Award in Leadership in Implementation by the Nobel Sustainability Trust for his contribution to the awareness of climate change and challenges.
Wackernagel co-developed the concept ...
15 November 2024 - A group of prominent scientists, advocates and policy leaders have issued an open letter to the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Secretariat Simon Stiell as world leaders gather in Baku for COP29. The signatories of this letter are friends of the COP and ...
12 November 2024 - A pioneering new initiative, Rebalancing Regional and Remote Australia, has been proposed by an international team of experts to tackle climate change while fostering sustainable community development. Led by Dr. Alberto Troccoli of the World Energy & ...
22 October 2024 - Our world faces a convergence of complex, interconnected challenges. Climate change, biodiversity loss, armed conflicts, rising inequality, and mass migrations of humans and animals are combining to create a global polycrisis. The wealth of scientific knowledge ...
22 October 2024 - Honorary President of The Club of Rome, Mamphela Ramphele, is one of the commissioners of the recently published report, The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good. The report, developed by the Global Commission on the Economics ...
14 October 2024 - In the midst of numerous crises and intensified social debates, we seem to be faced with a choice: Do we save the German economy, do we ensure a dignified life for all or do we stop climate change? In their new book "Earth for All Germany: Towards a Future for ...
06 September 2024 - Across G20 countries surveyed*, 72% of people agree that approving or permitting actions which cause serious damage to nature and the climate should be a criminal offence.
59% are very or extremely worried about the state of nature today.
69% ...
04 September 2024 - In advance of the UN Summit of the Future, Earth4All has released a new report detailing two possible futures for Sub-Saharan Africa this century. The report, "SDGs for All: Africa," uses Earth4All’s state-of-the-art system dynamics model to chart possible ...
01 August 2024 - Humanity is facing its greatest emergency, a crisis consisting of many, interlinked, catastrophic risks, the Roundtable on the Human Future has declared.
At present humanity has no way to deal with such a crisis – and a global plan of action is urgently ...
30 July 2024 - August 1st marks Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demand on nature’s resources surpasses Earth’s capacity to regenerate them for the given year. This day is calculated by Global Footprint Network, the international sustainability organization that ...
