25 November 2025 - Published 2025 – The ‘Young person’s guide to storytelling’ from The 50 Percent (a platform for young leaders supported by The Fifth Element and The Club of Rome) is a practical and accessible guide that helps young people understand how...
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Dancing with paradigms, could systemic wisdom emerge?
09 September 2025 - This is the first publication of The Fifth Element’s discussion paper series, which emerges from a recognition that our current crises—climate breakdown, social division and the loss of meaning—cannot be solved through conventional approaches...
How Intergenerational Leadership Unlocks Innovation and Sustainability in Business
06 May 2025 - This joint report by the UN Youth Office, the St. Gallen Symposium and The Club of Rome explores how businesses can unlock long-term value by adopting intergenerational leadership models. It highlights the growing demographic gap between corporate...
The Young Person’s Guide To Systems Change
25 March 2025 - The Young Person’s Guide To Systems Change from The 50 Percent (a platform for young leaders supported by The Club of Rome), is designed as a collaborative space that empowers young people to develop a deep understanding of systems thinking and apply...
Learning New Ways of Becoming Human
10 December 2021 - The two poles of the lemma “Emergence from Emergency” are complementary: while the Emergency calls for immediate actions from existing levels of decision, Emergence is about whole systems change at all levels, and first of all the cultural one. The...
Towards New Narratives of Hope for Fostering Transformative African Futures
04 January 2021 - In a recent Open letter to Global Leaders, the Club of Rome with 250 partners and other global institutions launched the Planetary Emergency Partnership. This document re-affirmed the reality that the world is facing a Planetary Emergency and that...





