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By the time the Gulf is rebuilt, oil will be obsolete. Britain needs electrified sovereignty now.
30 April 2026 - By 2030, the global oil industry will consume roughly a quarter of the energy it produces simply to keep producing. By 2050, that figure approaches half. The fossil fuel system is eating itself - and the Iran war has exposed what thermodynamics had...
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 ...
30 April 2026 - By 2030, the global oil industry will consume roughly a quarter of the energy it produces simply to keep producing. By 2050, that figure approaches half. The fossil fuel system is eating itself - and the Iran war has exposed what thermodynamics had already ...
28 April 2026 - On 18 February 2026, Bloomberg reported that Dubai’s stock market had surged to its strongest opening in more than a decade. Investors appeared willing to look past volatile geopolitics, pricing instead a city that has long positioned itself as a haven of ...
20 April 2026 - We humans live by the stories by which we know each other and our relationship to the people and place where we live. At the deepest level, our stories answer three primal questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? And what purpose are we here to serve? These ...
30 March 2026 - Why technology alone cannot deliver decarbonisation without political governance, social equity and the active involvement of citizens and local authorities.
The energy transition is often described as a technological challenge. Yet the discussions ...
17 March 2026 - What if our prevalent science-based worldview rooted in materialism and separation, could be about to be turned upside down? What then for our world?
Science plays a central role in shaping our collective future, a conviction reflected in the 2024 launch of ...
17 March 2026 - Africa is already bearing the harshest impacts of the climate crisis. From prolonged droughts and catastrophic floods to collapsing food systems and growing displacement, climate change is no longer a future risk but a present reality. Yet the greatest threat ...
16 March 2026 - This article reflects on a recent conversation from The Sustainability Salon, a talk show by 2023 Communications Fellow of the Club of Rome, Nonhlanhla Ngwenya, that brings together system thinkers and experts from the majority of the world to share perspectives ...
13 March 2026 - Faced with a crisis of meaning, it is necessary to integrate science, art, ethics, philosophy and spirituality into a new civilisational synthesis.
The history of humanity does not always advance in a linear fashion, and even less often, peacefully. Instead, ...
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