5 extraordinary turnarounds needed to reduce risk of regional collapse and climate catastrophe
Media advisory and event invitation As leaders gather next week at the UN to deal with a raft of challenges from war to energy crises, a landmark book warns that left unchecked, rising inequality in the next 50 years will lead to increasingly dysfunctional societies. Co-operation to deal with existential threats like climate change will become even more difficult according to Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity . However, the world can still stabilise global temperatures below 2°C and approach an end to poverty by 2050 by enacting five ‘
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 humanity on a finite planet.The new report focuses on what we have learned since 1972 and what comes next. It addresses questions such as: If we knew that continued growth in population, industrialisation, resource use and pollution would cause us to overshoot the carrying capacity of the Earth, why haven’t we done anything? What have we
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 scientists, economists, as well as thought- and youth leaders reflecting on different topics related to this ground-breaking publication and how lessons from the report and systems knowledge can be applied to the global problems humanity faces today.At the time of publication, The Limits to Growth was the first study to explore the possible impacts of the
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report , released today, 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 large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.The report underlines the urgent need for action that the Club of Rome and its partners have stressed through the Planetary Emergency Partnership since
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 in line with sustainability ambitions and the planetary emergency.The financial sector is key to enabling positive change and fuelling a shift out of high-carbon and environmentally destructive practices. However, the overall approach of the new strategy is to make the current sustainable finance framework "workable and coherent" by taking a "
