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The current crisis is an opportunity to reinvent democracy
05 August 2026 - While failures to make progress on climate change, biodiversity loss, equality and wellbeing are often attributed to insufficient political will or contested knowledge, a more fundamental constraint lies in how collective decisions are made. This is...
07 August 2026 - There are moments in history when one era has not quite faded away and another has not yet fully emerged. Ours is one such moment. We sense it in the accelerating pace of life, in the uncertainty pervading our societies, in the fragility of democracy, in the ...
05 August 2026 - While failures to make progress on climate change, biodiversity loss, equality and wellbeing are often attributed to insufficient political will or contested knowledge, a more fundamental constraint lies in how collective decisions are made.
This is our ...
04 August 2026 - There is growing global momentum behind innovation for sustainable development. Yet one of the most significant implementation gaps remains our inability to fully mobilise all sciences and all forms of knowledge in support of transformative action towards ...
16 July 2026 - Humanity has pushed beyond many of Earth’s planetary boundaries, driven by a long-standing focus on economic growth as the main measure of progress. This has contributed to the interconnected challenges of the triple planetary crisis: pollution, climate change and ...
14 July 2026 - The environmental degradation our planet is experiencing is not an accumulation of disconnected problems - nor a simple economic imbalance. Climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation and pollution are all part of a web of interconnected processes.
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08 July 2026 - Our new paper, Wellbeing for People and Planet: How to Value Everyone and Everything on a Thriving Planet Beyond 2030, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, argues that many of the world’s most pressing problems—from climate change and biodiversity loss to ...
30 June 2026 - Have you ever wondered why while Europe’s policy momentum on circular economy is very evident, the European economy is still mostly linear? The circular material use rate in the EU is only just over 12% and circular economy sectors accounted for only for only 1.8% ...
24 June 2026 - At the time of writing, three nuclear-armed states are at war. The United States and Israel have been fighting Iran for three months; Russia has been fighting Ukraine for three years. Nuclear weapons were supposed to be the holy grail of global security, but the ...
09 June 2026 - I have come to believe that the most urgent work of our time is not technological, nor even economic - it is relational. It is the work of reconciling worldviews. In my engagement with the Club of Rome and its articulation of The Fifth Element, I find language for ...
28 May 2026 - At the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos earlier this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a special address, in which he posited a rupture in the post‑World War II diplomatic consensus in the West on how global economies are organised ...
27 May 2026 - How can we break the consensus trance leading our civilization to the precipice?
Ever since the publication of Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome has told the world that it can’t continue its current trajectory without devastating results. For 50 years, the ...
01 May 2026 - Researchers and practitioners gathered at the Joint Research Centre in Italy to explore how to move beyond GDP and develop operational frameworks for measuring sustainable and inclusive wellbeing.
We joined a group of researchers and practitioners at the Joint ...
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