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Five hard questions the EU’s fashion EPR legislation must answer
02 March 2026 - The European Commission’s announcement of extended producer responsibility for textiles is overdue. For it to work, it must tackle e-commerce freeriding, design for the environment, labour rights, waste exports and synthetic fibres. European...
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, ...
05 March 2026 - At the recent Munich Security Conference, the U.S. Foreign Minister invoked themes that resonate far beyond transatlantic relations: civilisational identity, cultural continuity, sovereignty, strength. Migration, he argued, threatens "the survival of ‘our’ ...
03 March 2026 - Runa Khan did not grow up knowing the Club of Rome. As a child, she did not know its name, its history or its influence. What she knew, even at eleven years old, was a question that stayed with her as she ran around her family garden: why can’t people who can add ...
02 March 2026 - Is a Seneca Cliff for the human population on the horizon?
The first chapter of my book starts with:
“Today, those who discuss human population trends tend to split roughly into two groups: the catastrophists and the cornucopians. The catastrophists see ...
02 March 2026 - The European Commission’s announcement of extended producer responsibility for textiles is overdue. For it to work, it must tackle e-commerce freeriding, design for the environment, labour rights, waste exports and synthetic fibres.
European lawmakers are ...
25 February 2026 - What is the role of education in an age of rupture—and regeneration? AI disruption, ecological breakdown and social fragmentation are reshaping our world faster than our learning systems can respond. The crisis is not only educational. It is ...
18 February 2026 - Public scandals capture attention. Structural pathologies evade being recognised. The revelations surrounding the Epstein files have generated global outrage, and this is absolutely justified. Names circulate. Investigations continue. Reputations collapse. Yet the ...
13 February 2026 - I am white, I am British—hell, if I had been a man, I would have the trinity of privilege. I understand that where I was born and the colour of my skin, have meant I have been more exposed to opportunity, and I question why, when there is so much talent in all ...
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