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A key message in the
#Limitstogrowth
report was that our planet is physically limited & that humanity cannot continue to use more physical resources & generate more emissions than nature is capable of supplying in a sustainable manner. Read more:
#ltg50
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The world has been plunged into an extraordinary crisis. It is time to harness our fears, build hope and drive action to respond to the human health, economic, climate & biodiversity crisis with solutions that build resilient societies on the longer term.
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“Economics sits within a culture, and the culture that we live in, to some extent, is addicted to growth and antagonistic towards the idea of limits”, listen to Club of Rome member
@ProfTimJackson
with
@PhilippaNuttall
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The Club of Rome deems the students’ concerns to be utterly justified and calls on governments to listen to the call for urgent action from young people, scientists and experts across the globe. Full Statement:
#FridaysForFuture
#ClimateStrike
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The
#LimitstoGrowth
was published 50 years ago. Join original author Dennis Meadows
@Luisamneubauer
@Jayati1609
and
@jrockstrom
in the first of a series of webinars on how we can achieve global equity for a healthy planet.
#ltg50
📆 2 March 1500 CET
📍
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The Club of Rome launches its Climate Emergency Plan
@Europarl_EN
today!
--> Download the report here:
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Today is
#EarthOvershootDay
for 2024. Our demand for ecological resources and services now exceeds what the Earth can renew this year. How many 🌍 does your country require to sustain itself in a year? To make a difference & learn more
@EndOvershoot
➡️
🔗
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“50 years & we are still searching for the answers,50 years & leaders are still making fancy speeches & then they break their promises,50 years & we still don’t believe that leaders will take action"
@vanessa_vash
on 50 years since
#limitstogrowth
#ltg50
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The
@ClubOfRome
and
@PIK_Climate
launch
#PlanetaryEmergencyPlan
which sets out 10 urgent actions for the necessary social and economic transformations needed to secure the long-term health and well-being of people and planet:
#PlanetaryEmergency
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#EarthOvershootDay
is this Saturday- By August 22, humanity will have demanded as much from nature as Earth can renew in the whole year. These 'green champions' are working hard to
#MoveTheDate
. Check out the video messages below:
@EndOvershoot
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Let us embrace this moment of upheaval as an opportunity to start investing in resilience, shared prosperity, wellbeing & planetary health. We have long since exceeded our natural limits; it is time to try something new
@SDDecleve
,
@KateRaworth
,
@hlovins
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“50 years and we are still searching for the answers, 50 years and leaders are still making fancy speeches and then they break their promises, 50 years and we still don’t believe that leaders will take action”
@vanessa_vash
on
#ltg50
#shareyourthoughts
:
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50 yrs ago the authors of The
#LimitstoGrowth
called for forward looking policy to prevent humanity from overshooting planetary limits.
Now more than ever we need transformative thinking and collective action to address the issues we face as part of the planetary emergency
#ltg50
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The Club of Rome
#ClimateEmergencyPlan
calls for 10 priority actions:
#1
: Halt fossil fuel expansion and fossil fuel subsidies by 2020.
Download the full report here:
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Engaged citizens of all ages demanding action by their politicians on climate change is of paramount importance. Their call to world leaders is simple yet true: “it is time for less talk and more action on the climate”:
#FridaysForFuture
#climatestrikes
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The Club of Rome calls on the
@EU_Commission
to take the lead in designing new policies that go
#beyondGDP
growth, towards a focus on the
#wellbeing
of people and the planet
#EuropeanGreenDeal
#WellbeingEconomy
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Nearly 50 years ago Limits to Growth made some stark predictions, a new study shows we are unfortunately on track:
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The
#PlanetaryEmergencyPlan
2.0, updated to include insights from the global pandemic, makes the case that we are unequivocally in the midst of a planetary emergency. COVID-19 has exposed our vulnerabilities and has reinforced the case for emergency action:
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The model behind The
#LimitstoGrowth
focused on 5 variables; population, food production, industrial production, persistent pollution & consumption of non-renewable natural resources.
Read the history of
#ltg50
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The Limits to Growth was published in 1972. It was based on a computer model which analysed how the Earth would cope with unrestricted economic growth.
@bbcworldservice
hears from one of the authors of the book, Professor Dennis Meadows:
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Economists have known for more than eighty years that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is not a good measure of social progress. This policy briefing by
@ProfTimJackson
highlights some alternatives to the conventional approach. via
@CUSP_uk
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🎯The goal is to meet everyone's needs within the means of this planet, says
@KateRaworth
, author of 🍩
#DoughnutEconomics
.
🎬Watch the session at this year's
#BeyondGrowth
conference:
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Enough is enough.
Wealthy countries must stop blocking efforts to reform our outdated, colonial financial architecture and commit to systemic solutions to break the cycle of debt.
Read the open letter signed by 40+ thought leaders:
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.
@kateraworth
explaining
#DoughnutEconomics
on the
@NewStatesman
podcast “We don’t begin with supply & demand, we start with the values that we stand for, we start with meeting the needs of all people and we do so within the means of the living planet”
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#EarthOvershootDay
is August 22. It marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate. Join our (virtual) European launch event this Thursday from 9.00-10.00 CEST:
#MoveTheDate
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The
@ClubOfRome
has launched a new policy brief on 21st Century Wellbeing Economics and its role in EU recovery. It is a direct response to
@vonderleyen
’s recognition that
#COVID
-19 has shown “the limits of a model that values wealth above wellbeing”
#sotu
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We congratulate our honorary president Ernst von Weizsäcker on his 80th birthday. Today we are paying our respect to your outstanding achievements for a sustainable word. You are a great inspiration to all of us.
#ClubOfRome
#ComeOn
#verantwortungjetzt
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“We need to turn today’s economies, which are degenerative by default into ones that are regenerative by design”
@kateraworth
is right - it’s time for the
@EU_Commission
to get serious about moving
#BeyondGDP
Read the exchange here:
#EUBeyondGrowth
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📈 The opening plenary of the 2023
#BeyondGrowth
conference highlighted the pressing issues of growth and planetary limits. Check out the visual summary, outlining the steps to shift our
#economy
for a better future.
🎬 Watch the full session:
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"As our natural world is pushed to the brink and the grip of climate change tightens, we need to start a brand-new era in which capital and economic growth are not the sole determinants of what happens in society".
@ASteiner
on 50 years since the
#limitstogrowth
#ltg50
@UNDP
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“What is required is behaviour change on a massive scale. We cannot propagate green growth or conscious consumption without taking a look at the whole picture”,
@joerggeier
on the importance of transforming ourselves first before we tackle climate change
👉🏿
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On
#ltg50
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. Read more here:
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"There is no scientific basis for including natural gas and nuclear in the green
#EUTaxonomy
as set out by the Platform on Sustainable Finance. Europe's own investment bank has understood this and policymakers should follow suit".
@SDDecleve
in response to to the
@EU_Commission
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#EarthOvershootDay
continues to arrive earlier as we place more demand on the planet. We must find a way to
#MoveTheDate
every year through our actions and policy changes.
Find more about the changes we can make from
@EndOvershoot
:
🔗
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💬"Indigenous people and communities protect biodiversity and cultural diversity. Our economic systems protect life & re-generation."
⭐️Thanks and respect to the indigenous panelists and participants who contributed to our annual conference.
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OPINION |
@vegardbeyer
and
@katyrshields
give the inside story on their critically acclaimed true-crime style podcast investigating why The
#LimitstoGrowth
’s warnings about the consequences of growth-at-all costs have been ignored.
👉Read the article:
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This year’s Earth Overshoot Day will be on July 29th. We can
#MoveTheDate
– 5 days a year, and humanity will be using less than one planet before 2050. This is our mission to
@EndOvershoot
!
@SDDecleve
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Join us on April 28th
@NobelPrize
Summit "Our Planet Our Future" for a session on transformational economic thinking and leadership.
@PIK_Climate
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Dennis Meadows gives a keynote on the
#limitstogrowth
joining
@Robert_Costanza
@ida_kub
@KateRaworth
@ProfTimJackson
@sddecleve
@HeidiHautala
#ltg50
- live stream now:
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Jorgen Randers
@estoknes
@SDDecleve
@jrockstrom
and
@TKellerhoff
at the Haus der Bundespressekonferenz. Follow
@Earth4All_
for an annoucement at 1130CEST.
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50 yrs ago the Limits to Growth warned of infinite growth on a finite planet & now “we are truly in the midst of a crisis”
@Sddecleve
joins
@jrockstrom
@estoknes
@owengaffney
& Jorgen Randers to explain the actions needed to achieve wellbeing for all
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“The carbon economy amplifies racial, social and economic inequities, creating a system that is fundamentally incompatible with a stable future”, argue more than 100 economists, including Club of Rome members
@ProfTimJackson
and
@KateRaworth
@CUSP_uk
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Over 250 signatories from policy, business & civil society have signed a call to action organised by The Club of Rome,
@ClimateKIC
&
@MetabolicHQ
for the newly elected European Parliament to prioritise implementation of the
#EuropeanGreenDeal
.
Read more:
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Natural gas and nuclear power are not
#sustainable
investments and should not be included in the
@EU_Commission
#EUTaxonomy
⬇️
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#COP27
has resulted in a deal that keeps the climate negotiations ticking over but is weak & significantly influenced by petrostates. For the sake of humanity we must ask what purpose the UN COP conferences serve, says
@SDDecleve
in the
@NewStatesman
.
👇
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On Nov. 19th,
@ClubOfRome
and
@PIK_Climate
have the pleasure of organising the closing session of the
#RaceToZero
Dialogues titled "Transformational Leadership" which will bring together political, business, science and academic leaders. Register now:
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The Club of Rome commends the
@EIB
for its progressive leadership in confronting the Planetary Emergency:“This is a very strong signal to European and global markets that the EIB is taking the Paris Agreement (...) seriously."says CoR President
@SDDecleve
:
#JustIn
🔴The EU Bank is commited to achieve the
#decarbonisation
of European economies by 2050! Our Board of Directors approved a new
#Energy
Lending Policy coupled to an ambitious
#climateaction
strategy to make this objective a reality: 🇪🇺🏦💚🌍
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Read about new research on the planetary boundaries, a wellbeing bill, and new economic thinking in our February
#Earth4All
newsletter!
]
More on
#planetaryboundaries
#limitstogrowth
@sthlmresilience
@PIK_Climate
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The complexity of the overlapping crises of inequality, health, justice, technology, ecology and culture are producing emergencies that the institutions of the last centuries cannot contend with. What is possible for societies to learn in the process?
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Transformational Economics to Meet Net-Zero Ambition: Watch the full debate with
@ProfTimJackson
,
@beyond_ideology
,
@SharanBurrow
,
@Jayati1609
,
@NaokoIshiiTokyo
here:
#RaceToZero
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Tomorrow is 50 years to the day that the
#LimitstoGrowth
was published. How can we achieve equity for all on a healthy planet? What lessons have we learnt?
#ltg50
with:
@Luisamneubauer
@Jayati1609
@jrockstrom
@SDDecleve
@MamphelaR
📆 2 March 1500 CET
📍
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"The future is now": Club of Rome meets some of the most important Italian companies that made a commitment to concretely reduce their CO2 emissions. From 11 AM, live streaming on our FB page. In collaboration with Fondazione Aurelio Peccei,
@WWFitalia
,
@Novamont
,
@ASviSItalia
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The new Report to the Club of Rome "The Empty Sea" describes the future of the blue economy, explaining why humans tend to destroy the resources on which we depend and assessing the realistic expectations for extracting resources from the sea:
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"We’ll make no progress against climate change without confronting the deep injustice still perpetuated by a hyper-financialised, neo-liberal consumerism that has haunted the European project and undermined its sense of value."
@ProfTimJackson
@CUSP_uk
After the most profound shake-up in decades,
#European
politics stands at a pivotal point in its long history. With a new political make-up comes a new possibility, argues
@ProfTimJackson
: a just transition to a sustainable
#Europe
. >> H/T
@visionforeurope
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"We call upon European leaders to embrace this moment of reflection and upheaval to adopt economic recovery plans that create more resilient communities, greater health & wellbeing, and shared prosperity on a healthy planet" write
@SDDecleve
&
@jrockstrom
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@ClubOfRome
and Planetary Emergency Partnership call on G20 Leaders to
#emergefromemergency
with people, planet and prosperity at the heart of the Covid-19 recovery
@SDDecleve
#PlanetaryEmergency
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🙌 We are delighted to welcome @ktrebeck, co-founder of
@WEAll_Alliance
and its Scottish hub
@weallscotland
as a member of The Club of Rome.
👉 Find out more
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Emerging from the
#planetaryemergency
means systems change based on a new resilience agenda for people, planet and prosperity. Follow the opening session “Systems Transformation” of the
#RaceToZero
Dialogues by
@ClubOfRome
and
@PIK_Climate
on Nov. 9th:
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On Monday, 9th of November the Club of Rome and
@PIK_Climate
are joining forces to host the opening session “Systems Transformation” of the
#RacetoZero
Dialogues with
@SDDecleve
,
@jrockstrom
,
@KateRaworth
and more. Register now:
Emerging from the
#planetaryemergency
means systems change based on a new resilience agenda for people, planet and prosperity. Follow the opening session “Systems Transformation” of the
#RaceToZero
Dialogues by
@ClubOfRome
and
@PIK_Climate
on Nov. 9th:
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PRESS RELEASE |
Mamphela Ramphele (South Africa) and Sandrine Dixson Declève (Belgium) were elected Co-Presidents of the Club of Rome. For the first time in its history the Club appointed two women to co-lead the organization:
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Club of Rome Honorary President Ernst von Weizsäcker discussing
#FridaysForFuture
and climate change with
@GretaThunberg
and Nobel Prize winner Jacques Dubochet: "We scientists were unbelievably grateful for this popular support by the new generation."
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We have known for 50 years we are risking collapse since The
#LimitstoGrowth
-
@SDDecleve
@Columbia
#ClimateWeekNYC
#BeyondBrettonWoods
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“There have been 50 years, 10 books, thousands of speeches, and dozens of videos since the
#LimitstoGrowth
– I hope in 50 years time you will be proud of what has been achieved”. Dennis Meadows on
#ltg50
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Key words for a sustainable future:
#pace
#action
#now
#collaboration
#interdependence
#commitment
#inspire
#humility
#values
#wellbeing
- what is yours?
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Over 30 businesses, investment groups and scientific institutions have sent a letter to the
@EIB
, calling on it to deliver on its recent proposal to stop investing in fossil fuel projects by the end of 2020:
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Today, we launched a new initiative on transformational economics,
#Earth4All
. Find out more:
@SDDecleve
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Respect across ideas and opinions is the prerequisite to creating healthy intergenerational leadership, says
@Modester_Lynn
, Youth Coordinator at
@KCCWG
at the intergenerational leadership workshop at
#2024UNCSC
this May in Nairobi.
@SG__Symposium
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What is the path to a
#naturepostive
future? Join
@jrockstrom
and
@sddecleve
at
#COP26
📆 1 November 1900 BST.
📹 live stream ➡️
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In partnership with the
@bmwfoundation
and
@NewStatesman
-
@SDDecleve
@ProfTimJackson
@KateRaworth
talk with
@PhilippaNuttall
about 50 years since
#limitstogrowth
- Will the world end its addiction to growth? Listen now:
#ltg50
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❓The need to transform governance of our planet to emerge from multiple emergencies is critical.
📍50 yrs after The
#LimitstoGrowth
, join us at our annual conference:
📆4 Dec.1030-1210 CET
📍In -person in Costa Rica and online
👉Register
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The Club of Rome endorses a statement signed by scientists from all over the world in support of the youth climate protests: "Their concerns are justified and supported by the best available science"
#FridaysForFuture
@SDDecleve
@MamphelaR
@GretaThunberg
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The Club of Rome
#ClimateEmergencyPlan
calls for 10 priority actions:
#4
: Replace
#GDP
growth as the main objective for societal progress.
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NEW |
#ClimateAction
needs
#lagom
- the Swedish concept of balance, say
@AndersWijkman
&
@JanezPotocnik22
in
@NS_Spotlight
as they highlight the devastating impact of fast fashion on our 🌍 & the need to shift our mindset from consumption culture.
👇
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"A number of protests being organized in countries across the continent as part of the global climate strike is an encouraging and very timely sign of growing civil activism in Africa on the need for urgent action on climate change“. CoR Co-President
@MamphelaR
#FridaysForFuture
The Club of Rome deems the students’ concerns to be utterly justified and calls on governments to listen to the call for urgent action from young people, scientists and experts across the globe. Full Statement:
#FridaysForFuture
#ClimateStrike
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CoR Co-President
@SDDecleve
presenting The Club of Rome -
#ClimateEmergencyPlan
@COP24Katowice
. Find out more:
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"Any major paradigm shift starts with consciousness of the contradictions, the absurdities that we take as normal" argues CoR Co-President
@MamphelaR
in a presentation to the US Association of the Club of Rome:
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In our webinar: Dennis Meadows coauthor of the
#LimitstoGrowth
reflected on 50 years since it was published and ways to achieve equity for a healthy planet. If you missed it or want to watch again:
@Jayati1609
@Luisamneubauer
@jrockstrom
@SDDecleve
#ltg50
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We are looking forward to discussing concrete policy tools and levers of change which genuinely respond to the
#climateemergency
with
@EITeu
,
@ClimateKIC
@SYSTEMIQ_Ltd
,
@WMBtweets
,
@e3g
and other leading climate change agents today at
#LDNClimateAction
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COVID-19 has caused humanity's Ecological Footprint to contract, pushing the date of
#EarthOvershootDay
back more than three weeks compared to last year. The challenge of relaunching our economies presents countries with a unique chance to act on the future we want.
#MoveTheDate
#EarthOvershootDay
is August 22. It marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate. Join our (virtual) European launch event this Thursday from 9.00-10.00 CEST:
#MoveTheDate
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"The oil and gas companies could make important contributions to the transition, but devote themselves mostly to maintaining the status quo", writes CoR Honorary President
@AndersWijkman
@WeDontHaveTime0
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Join us tomorrow (2pm-4pm CET) at the
#NobelPrizeSummit
"Our Planet, Our Future" with
@SDDecleve
,
@jrockstrom
,
@estoknes
,
@SharanBurrow
,
@Jayati1609
,
@ilonamotto
,
@CarlotaPrzPerez
,
@Hintojen
,
@Johnston_L_
,
@EllenD35
,
@fvonpeter
& more.
@NobelPrize
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Government and expert leaders join forces to champion green recovery and systemic transformation on World Environment Day via
@ClubOfRome
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We are using 1.7 Earths. How? By using more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than ecosystems can absorb.
@EndOvershoot
#MoveTheDate
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Congratulations to
@SDDecleve
and
@MamphelaR
who have been reelected as co-presidents of The Club of Rome for another 3 years!
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“Humanity's footprint is nearly twice the capacity of the earth. It would be 3 times larger if we all lived like Europeans & 5 times larger if we behaved like US citizens. This is not only unsustainable, it is insane & unfair” Roland Moreau
#ltg50
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“For 50 yrs we have known that we would face grave consequences if economic growth continued without regard for the environment.”
@JenMorrisNature
@nature_org
on how we need to act urgently & decisively to address climate change & biodiversity loss.
#ltg50
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#RaceToZero
Panel on Transformational Economics with
@ProfTimJackson
,
@NaokoIshiiTokyo
,
@Jayati1609
and
@beyond_ideology
starting now:
Full Programme:
@CUSP_uk
@PIK_Climate
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The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.
via
@NewYorker
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“I commend President von der Leyen and her Commission for their 21st-century leadership and foresight,” said
@SDDecleve
, Co-President of the CoR “They have listened to calls from economists, scientists, and NGOs to not go back to business as usual”
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NEW REPORT TO THE CLUB OF ROME OUT NOW
#ComeOn
! by Ernst v. Weizsäcker and .
@AndersWijkman
proposes an overhaul in the way that governments, businesses, financial systems, innovators and families interact with our planet.
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Humanity is on a path to having limits to growth imposed on itself rather than consciously choosing its own - Gaya Herrington on her update to
#LimitstoGrowth
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"We have an immense opportunity as the new European semester begins. The Club of Rome's
#PlanetaryEmergencyPlan
can be a reference point for the new European Commission to deliver the
#EUGreenDeal
" said
@SDDecleve
at
@GLOBE_EU
's
#TheStateOfPlay
at the European Parliament.
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The Club of Rome hosted a series of webinars under the theme: The Limits to Growth + 50: Global equity for a healthy planet, with thought leaders reflecting on
#ltg50
and bringing forward solutions for change.
Here is a recap from our webinars:
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