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20 June 2023 - Why the Swedish concept of “lagom” could prove key to tackling emissions excess.
Shein, the Chinese clothing retailer, is becoming the ultimate example of cheap, throwaway fashion. While the British Fashion Council says the world already has enough clothes to ...
14 June 2023 - “What do we, human beings, have in common with a fish?”
A young teenage boy is taken aback by this question posed by his father. He looks at him and responds: “What do you mean? A fish is a fish, we are humans. Fish live in water, we don't live in water. They ...
13 June 2023 - Four revolutions will nurture a liberated future in Africa.
Since the dawn of the 20th century, humanity has been sounding the alarm on the profound impact of our actions on climate and the environment. It has become increasingly clear that the escalating ...
05 June 2023 - Six months’ worth of rain in 36 hours. At least 14 people dead. More than 36,000 people left homeless. Fields, crops, homes, roads destroyed. Climate science has warned for years that more extreme weather events will be the result of rising emissions. The terrible ...
31 May 2023 - Fifty years have passed since The Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth. The report was a sharp critique of the notion of material growth as eternal and predicted increasing problems as a consequence of rapidly growing populations and economies. The report ...
31 May 2023 - The proposed legislation would require changes to farming methods in Europe to tackle the climate crisis and restore nature, ensuring affordable food for all.
For 10,000 years, human civilisation has grown and thrived because of ...
19 May 2023 - Can you tell us a bit about yourself? How did you get involved in systems transformation work?
I am 33 years old, I was born in Argentina and from a very young age, I decided that I wanted to work to help change our current global systems. I studied ...
17 May 2023 - I want to start by giving credit to Ursula Van Der Leyen and her exemplary leadership. With the support of this house she has steered Europe through a global pandemic, towards a European Green Deal and steered Europe’s response to an ongoing war in Ukraine.
Today ...
17 May 2023 - Honourable Members, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Indeed, if we look back, a little over 50 years ago, The Club of Rome and a group of MIT researchers published The Limits to Growth report. It mapped the interaction between population growth, the economy and the ...
15 May 2023 - There is growing interest from policymakers globally in the adoption of new indicators that go beyond GDP, foster greater wellbeing and enable people to thrive within environmental limits. Today’s polycrisis is raising awareness that the current economic and ...
02 May 2023 - Do forests create rain? It is a question that has been debated for a long time. We know that trees produce huge amounts of water vapor that is pumped from humidity in the ground and condensed into clouds that generate rain, but the mechanisms that govern ...
24 April 2023 - We are facing a plethora of environmental emergencies. In addition to climate change, human activity is also negatively impacting the Earth’s soil and waterways through chemical pollution, urbanisation and the ever growing reach of industrial agriculture. At the ...
