21 June 2024 - Following the recent European Parliament elections and resulting political shifts, The Club of Rome has coordinated a call to action with two of the Systems Transformations Hub partners - EIT Climate-KIC and Metabolic - backing the European Green Deal...
18 June 2024 - Despite the fact that the mission of the Conference of the Parties’ (COP) is to prevent dangerous climate change and keep global warming below 2°C, there is a stark and unacceptable gap between what COP needs to achieve and the inertia it reinforces...
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...
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...
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...
17 April 2024 - The EU Council, under the leadership of Belgium as current holder of the EU presidency, has “paused” the approval of the Nature Restoration Law, a decision that runs contrary to democratic norms, science and good business practice. The law is already...
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...
27 February 2024 - If there was shock and awe last week when the Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that global average warming over the last twelve months — February 2023 to January 2024 — had exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (°C), it was likely because too many...
