02 October 2024 - The United Nations Summit of the Future last week offers a critical opportunity to reflect on the far-reaching consequences of our actions. If we get it right thousands of generations (and literally trillions of people) will inherit a planet where...
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Causing environmental damage should be a criminal offence, say 72% of people in G20 countries surveyed
06 September 2024 - Across G20 countries surveyed*, 72% of people agree that approving or permitting actions which cause serious damage to nature and the climate should be a criminal offence. 59% are very or extremely worried about the state of nature today. 69%...
How Sub-Saharan Africa can achieve the SDGs by 2100: A new report by Earth4All
04 September 2024 - In advance of the UN Summit of the Future, Earth4All has released a new report detailing two possible futures for Sub-Saharan Africa this century. The report, "SDGs for All: Africa," uses Earth4All’s state-of-the-art system dynamics model to chart...
Call for world action on multiple threats
01 August 2024 - Humanity is facing its greatest emergency, a crisis consisting of many, interlinked, catastrophic risks, the Roundtable on the Human Future has declared. At present humanity has no way to deal with such a crisis – and a global plan of action is...
Earth Overshoot Day 2024 falls on August 1st
30 July 2024 - August 1st marks Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demand on nature’s resources surpasses Earth’s capacity to regenerate them for the given year. This day is calculated by Global Footprint Network, the international sustainability...
The legacy of No Limits to Learning
25 July 2024 - On the 45th anniversary of the report No Limits to Learning, we are exploring the transformative power of learning. We talked to Gianfranco Bologna, member of The Club of Rome and Honorary President of Scientific Community at WWF Italy, about how the...
Economic sovereignty in Africa: Lessons from Kenya’s Finance Bill controversy
22 July 2024 - “A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves.” Often attributed to an unknown author, these words have long held true for Kenya’s citizenry until recently. In the past few weeks, a wave of political awareness championed by ‘Generation Zs’ has swept...
Intergenerational decision-making can help build a regenerative economy. Here’s why
10 July 2024 - A key challenge across businesses and policy institutions is to simultaneously boost our ability to address immediate crises and long-term challenges. This requires shifting the generational perspectives and voices included in strategic...
A new vision for Austria: From Too Little Too Late to a Giant Leap for sustainability
08 July 2024 - A new report shows that by simultaneously implementing “five extraordinary turnarounds” poverty and inequality could be significantly reduced in Austria, while transforming the economy to promote the wellbeing of Austrian society and the health of our...
Robert Costanza wins the 2024 Blue Planet Prize
03 July 2024 - Robert Costanza, member of The Club of Rome, Earth4All Transformational Economics Commissioner and Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, has won the prestigious 2024 Blue Planet Prize. He...