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Rene Schwietzke
To solve the climate crisis, we need to live in a less material world
10 May 2024 - Global material use has more than tripled since 1970 - from 30 billion tons to 106 billion tons a year. And it is taking a heavy toll on our planet. The extraction and processing of fossil fuels, metals and minerals, food production and forestry...
06 June 2024 - This blog is part of a series drawn from Peace in the Anthropocene, our latest publication at The Club of Rome. Each entry reflects one of the many viewpoints held by our diverse membership, illustrating the rich tapestry of ideas within our network. While this ...
29 May 2024 - As part of the Earth4All project, collaborators have submitted deep-dive papers to delve further into the issues and solutions needed to transform our economic system and provide an equitable future for all on a finite planet.
22 May 2024 - This blog is part of a series drawn from Peace in the Anthropocene, our latest publication at The Club of Rome. Each entry reflects one of the many viewpoints held by our diverse membership, illustrating the rich tapestry of ideas within our network. While this ...
10 May 2024 - Global material use has more than tripled since 1970 - from 30 billion tons to 106 billion tons a year. And it is taking a heavy toll on our planet.
The extraction and processing of fossil fuels, metals and minerals, food production and forestry together ...
03 May 2024 - “Too hot to handle: The scorching reality of Australia’s climate–security failure” is a report published by the Australian Security Leaders Group (ASLCG). This article is an extract from the report.
One line of evidence for the Australian Government’s ...
22 April 2024 - April 22 is Earth Day and people all around the world will be celebrating the bounties that earth provides for all life. This is a good time to consider what does living "a green life" mean to us? How can we live green from a holistic systems perspective? China's ...
18 April 2024 - To secure the wellbeing of all of Earth’s people and the many other members of Earth’s household, we will need a new economics, an “eco-nomics” that guides us on a path to a life-centric civilisation.
Our modern lives are largely determined by economic policies ...
17 April 2024 - The EU Council, led by Belgium, has controversially paused the approval of the critical Nature Restoration Law, jeopardising EU biodiversity and climate goals.
03 April 2024 - Exploring the urgent need for a wellbeing economy to address the global polycrisis, emphasizing transformative change over short-term fixes for a sustainable future.
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 ...
25 March 2024 - Europe is confronting environmental challenges that are unprecedented in their scale and urgency.
From the alarming decline in biodiversity to the relentless march of climate change, the continent faces a series of crises that threaten not just its natural ...
22 March 2024 - In our Q&A series with the authors of Limits and Beyond, we talked to Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, a member of The Club of Rome and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) at the IFRS Foundation. We explored the Seven Pillars approach and the concept ...
