13 February 2024 - What inspired you to join The Club of Rome? It was actually Ernst von Weizsäcker who inspired me to join The Club of Rome, because he was impressed with my work on multi-stakeholder collaboration for transformative change. I had come across The...
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17 January 2024 - The average age in Africa is around 20. Yet, the average age of African leaders is over 60. Closing this generation gap, the biggest in the world, is vital to enable the continent to engage with the problems of the twenty-first century and to give...
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21 December 2023 - In light of the recent COP28 outcome on transitioning from fossil energy use rather than a firm phase out, over 30 members of The Club of Rome have endorsed an open letter to world leaders and business leaders calling for urgent action to achieve...
Embracing diversity and influencing change
20 November 2023 - What inspired you to join The Club of Rome? Sustainability and climate change are political matters, and I have always been a political activist. But the choice of The Club of Rome was an accident of history. I happened to live in Cape Town when...
Unveiling our blind spots: Q&A with Carlos Alvarez Pereira
16 November 2023 - As part of our Q&A series with authors of Limits and Beyond, we sat down with Carlos Alvarez Pereira, the Vice President of the Club of Rome and one of the co-editors of the book. We explored what is hindering humanity from learning what we...
Africa’s youth as leaders in biodiversity conservation
15 November 2023 - Africa stands at a crucial juncture. With internal and external pressures escalating for our rich resources, we are faced with pivotal choices. Do we embrace a future that safeguards our natural legacy or inadvertently destroy it? The stakes are...
From Gross National Product to Gross National Happiness: Q&A with Julia Kim
06 November 2023 - As part of the Q&A series with the authors of Limits and Beyond, we sat down with Julia Kim, a member of The Club of Rome and International Advisor at the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Centre in Bhutan. Kim shares her insights about Bhutan’s...
A feminist vision for change: Q&A with Petra Kuenkel
27 October 2023 - As part of the Q&A series with authors of Limits and Beyond, we talked to Petra Kuenkel, a member of The Club of Rome and the Founder of the Collective Leadership Institute. Kuenkel explores how patriarchal systems are connected to the crises we...
Is compassion something we can ever expect in the economy?
04 October 2023 - Corporate scandals make greed seem an inevitable outcome of the economy. Can compassion take root in such a hard-nosed system? As corporate scandals go, there certainly isn’t a lack of competition – from Enron to the lies of tobacco companies, from...
We must regenerate the future for a second chance on Earth
11 July 2023 - The present is full of fear. Wars, pandemics, climate warming, ecological disasters, economic downturn, social and political turmoil: We are not short of reasons to be fearful. In privileged countries, where for decades the future always looked better...