05 May 2022 - On the 50th anniversary of The Limits to Growth a new report to the Club of Rome - Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next? once again takes stock and asks questions fundamental for the survival of...
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Give Peace a Chance
28 February 2022 - We, members of the Club of Rome, condemn in the strongest possible terms the Russian invasion of Ukraine and believe all efforts must be made to prevent war and any nuclear conflict immediately. We call upon leaders on all sides of this conflict,...
The Limits to Growth+50: Global equity for a healthy planet
23 February 2022 - In March 1972, a report commissioned by The Club of Rome, shook the world. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth, The Club of Rome are planning a series of webinars and other events featuring leading...
Reaction to EU draft Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act
05 January 2022 - On 31 December 2021, the European Commission sent a request for feedback to the Member States Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the Platform on Sustainable Finance on a draft text of a Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act covering certain gas...
The EU Taxonomy: Natural gas and nuclear power are not sustainable investments
26 November 2021 - On 1 December 2021, the European Commission is expected to publish the supplementary EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act. The Club of Rome is calling for the taxonomy to support global climate goals and not allow progress to be undermined by national...
The Club of Rome at the UN Climate talks
27 October 2021 - We are at a unique moment in history – a decisive decade where failure to act risks crossing irreversible Earth tipping points. The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is seen as a critical summit to accelerate action towards the...
The Club of Rome calls on EU to adopt wellbeing economics instead of growth at all costs
15 September 2021 - The global pandemic that has been ravaging the world for the past two years has brought about unprecedented change, but also presents valuable opportunities for building back a more resilient and sustainable world. The Club of Rome calls on the...
The Jena Declaration on Sustainability
07 September 2021 - The Club of Rome joins an international network to call for a strategy change to achieve the UN sustainable development goals. Top-down measures to tackle global challenges, which have dominated policy-making so far, do not take sufficient account...
We must act now to deal with the planetary emergency
10 August 2021 - The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released on 9 August, provides new estimates of the chances of crossing the global warming level of 1.5°C in the next decades, and finds that unless there are immediate, rapid and...
Sustainable Finance Strategy Lacks Urgency
06 July 2021 - According to the Club of Rome, the latest European Commission finance strategy – "Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy" – does not go far enough to change Europe’s financial system to support the transformation of the economy...