07 November 2023 - This week, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is meeting in Paris for its annual forum. On the negotiating table is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to end the flow of public money into fossil fuels, but you’d be forgiven...
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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...
Building on the voices of youth for desirable futures
06 November 2023 - The Higher Education for Good (HE4G) Foundation and The Club of Rome are launching an extensive collaborative effort to build upon the data gathered through the recently released Youth Talks consulation results. The objective of this partnership is...
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...
The Pope is right, we must “reconfigure multinationalism” to deliver on climate
17 October 2023 - COP28 is fast approaching and political leadership on climate action is absent. Into this void, Pope Francis has sounded the alarm, urging “strategists” attending the international climate conference in Dubai next month to be “capable of considering...
Debating renewables: Finding common ground
12 October 2023 - There is a curious tendency among us humans to turn every issue into a battle of extremes, where opposing sides wield strawmen arguments like weapons. We champion open debate, but it often leads us down a fruitless path. Take renewable energy, for...
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...
One step forward, two steps back: Insights from the African Climate Week and Youth Assembly 2023
28 September 2023 - The African Climate Week (ACW) (4 – 8 September 2023) and its preceding African Climate Youth Assembly (AYCA) marked a significant gathering in the realm of African climate discussions. They were among the biggest and most anticipated high level...
New foresight report identifies urgent policy actions needed to put SDGs back on track
14 September 2023 - Ahead of the UN’s SDG Summit (18-19 September), ground-breaking analyses shows how by enacting five ‘extraordinary turnarounds’ SDGs implementation can be accelerated. Earth4All, an international team of economists and scientists, provide solutions...
Breaking the suicidal impasse
08 September 2023 - In the last few months events have occurred globally which indicate an astonishing, but not unexpected, acceleration in the pace of climate change. The world has now entered a new era of extremely dangerous climate impacts which are already proving...