17 November 2022 - The futures of young people around the world are being devastated by the impacts of climate change, forcing them to mobilise and act. Young people are stepping into leadership roles in their communities, in local government, and even becoming...
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The Club of Rome at the UN Climate talks
31 October 2022 - The most recent IPCC report highlighted the gravity of the climate crisis and the need for immediate and sustained political will, impactful action and effective cooperation. The window for action is closing and failure to act risks crossing...
Do we need to be the wolf of Wall Street? From winner takes it all, to ‘Earth for All’
24 October 2022 - It’s common to say that the invisible hand - the market - rewards and punishes. The invisible hand has punished Liz Truss and the British government, throwing the UK into chaos. Even the markets didn’t believe the prime minister’s clueless economic...
Protect the Flame. Circles of Radical Presence in Times of Collapse
03 October 2022 - I am sitting on a train on the Räthische Railway riding back from Pontresina, high in the beautiful Swiss Alps. Surrounded by the presence of melting glaciers I reflect on two gatherings that happened here earlier in the week: the World Ethic Forum...
Avoiding collapse & extinction: an urgent re-call to action
26 September 2022 - The world has faced an unprecedented threat from interconnected tipping points on climate change, health, biodiversity loss, poverty and inequitable human development patterns which are creating the greatest existential risk to humanity. This is a...
How is climate change mitigation affecting low- and middle-income countries?
16 August 2022 - As the planet continues to cook, so grows the need for effective climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. Such strategies are starting to unfold, but their impacts need to be examined carefully. While they are essential for saving life on planet...
Ending the Age of Scarcity
03 August 2022 - The current escalation of multiple, overlapping crises – climate-related disasters, a pandemic, war in Europe, and stagflation – is intensifying anxiety and uncertainty the world over. Conventional solutions are no longer working. Politicians have few...
Absorbing the Shock of the Energy Transition
07 July 2022 - Russia’s war on Ukraine has sent shockwaves around the world. Oil prices have skyrocketed and food prices have soared bringing political instability. The last time food prices were this volatile, riots erupted across the Arab world and from Burkina Faso...
The IPCC has called for decolonisation – the climate change industry must start now!
16 June 2022 - On April 4th 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth assessment report, which for the first time cited “historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism” as a driver of vulnerability to climate change...
Eco-infrastructure – A transformational opportunity for investors
30 May 2022 - Fifty years ago, a team of MIT scientists identified that human decision-making was luring our entire population slowly but inexorably toward environmental disaster. Through the first ever computer model of the world, they showed that the relentless...