01 August 2024 - Humanity is facing its greatest emergency, a crisis consisting of many, interlinked, catastrophic risks, the Roundtable on the Human Future has declared.
At present humanity has no way to deal with such a crisis – and a global plan of action is urgently ...
30 July 2024 - August 1st marks Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demand on nature’s resources surpasses Earth’s capacity to regenerate them for the given year. This day is calculated by Global Footprint Network, the international sustainability organization that ...
08 July 2024 - A new report shows that by simultaneously implementing “five extraordinary turnarounds” poverty and inequality could be significantly reduced in Austria, while transforming the economy to promote the wellbeing of Austrian society and the health of our ...
03 July 2024 - Robert Costanza, member of The Club of Rome, Earth4All Transformational Economics Commissioner and Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, has won the prestigious 2024 Blue Planet Prize. He has been ...
27 June 2024 - A “Giant Leap” could end poverty in Kenya within a generation and bring economic prosperity, according to a new report. The report looked at two scenarios. The Giant Leap scenario explores five extraordinary turnarounds in the areas of poverty, inequality, ...
24 June 2024 - Across 17* G20 countries surveyed, a majority of adults (68%**) support the policy proposal where wealthy people pay a higher tax on their wealth, as a means of funding major changes to our economy and lifestyles.
When thinking about climate change and ...
21 June 2024 - Following the recent European Parliament elections and resulting political shifts, The Club of Rome has coordinated a call to action with two of the Systems Transformations Hub partners - EIT Climate-KIC and Metabolic - backing the European Green Deal and its ...
12 April 2024 - Africa’s debt crisis risks spiralling out of control unless urgent action is taken by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. This is the stark message of an open letter from over 40 leading economists and systems thinkers in advance of the Spring Meetings ...
25 March 2024 - Taikan Oki, member of The Club of Rome, professor at the University of Tokyo and former Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations has won the 2024 Stockholm Water Prize based on his research on the virtual water trade, digital river mapping, and inclusion ...
14 February 2024 - The Fifth Element programme of The Club of Rome and The World Environmental Education Congress are joining forces to collaborate on a new project, sparked by the 45th anniversary of the report No Limits to Learning. The collaboration will focus on the ...
24 January 2024 - The Systems Transformation Hub, inaugurated at the European Parliament, aims to guide the EU in systemic policy-making, addressing interconnected crises like climate change and inequality, while remaining independent and science-based. It emerges ...
13 January 2024 - Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of the Club of Rome has been awarded the coveted Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership at Burda's international innovation conference DLD in Munich.
Since 2006, the Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership has been ...
