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...
13 August 2023 - We are in a race of tipping points. We are exceeding biophysical planetary boundaries and the climate is fast approaching irreversible tipping points that could give us a world human civilization has never experienced. Climate change is however only...
07 August 2023 - When other fashion businesses complain about Shein, it is usually about how its ultra-fast fashion model is saturating the clothing market, and because it draws attention to practices that are otherwise hidden to those outside the industry. That’s...
14 July 2023 - The June 22-23 Summit for a New Global Financing Pact promised to catalyse a revolution in climate finance and empower the Global South. But it failed to meet its lofty goals, concluding without a single firm commitment or concrete proposal to help...
22 June 2023 - The recent dramatic floods in Emilia Romagna are yet another sign of the impact of climate change. We know these extreme whether events will become more and more frequent. However, our brains are not wired to connect them with their cause: the climate...
20 June 2023 - Why the Swedish concept of “lagom” could prove key to tackling emissions excess. Shein, the Chinese clothing retailer, is becoming the ultimate example of cheap, throwaway fashion. While the British Fashion Council says the world already has enough...
15 June 2023 - Over 25 economists and thought leaders are concerned that the summit for a new global financing pact, which takes place in Paris on 22 and 23 June, will not deliver its original ambition of increasing financial solidarity with low-income countries. When...
31 May 2023 - Fifty years have passed since The Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth. The report was a sharp critique of the notion of material growth as eternal and predicted increasing problems as a consequence of rapidly growing populations and economies....
17 May 2023 - I want to start by giving credit to Ursula Van Der Leyen and her exemplary leadership. With the support of this house she has steered Europe through a global pandemic, towards a European Green Deal and steered Europe’s response to an ongoing war in...
17 May 2023 - Honourable Members, Ladies and Gentlemen, Indeed, if we look back, a little over 50 years ago, The Club of Rome and a group of MIT researchers published The Limits to Growth report. It mapped the interaction between population growth, the economy and the...
