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We are at a fork in the road. Will we choose solidarity over fear?
16 October 2025 - Opinion: The international development system we knew is gone, and there is no going back. What comes next depends on how we choose to respond. In European capitals of multilateralism — Geneva, Brussels, Vienna — a new season is dawning. The illusion...
03 November 2025 - Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold distinguished professor at the University of Delaware and member of the Club of Rome, advocates for international governance structures to ensure that minerals essential for the green transition are managed fairly and sustainably. In this ...
31 October 2025 - How did you first become involved in The Club of Rome, and how The Limits to Growth report come about?
I became involved in The Limits to Growth project - and later one of the four authors of that first popular report to The Club of Rome – simply by happenstance: ...
28 October 2025 - The international community has embraced youth empowerment with unprecedented enthusiasm. From the UN's Youth2030 strategy to the recently adopted Pact for the Future, global frameworks increasingly recognise young people as essential partners in addressing ...
23 October 2025 - A childhood rooted in nature
Born in Graz, Austria in 1961, Helmy Abouleish grew up surrounded by animals, gardens and farmland under the care of his Austrian grandfather.
“I was born into an agricultural context. I had the opportunity to live with nature, ...
21 October 2025 - This year’s 30th annual UN Climate Summit is situated in Belem, Brazil at the mouth of the Amazon River. As one of the most critical and threatened places on Earth, the location provides important symbolism for the urgent climate action that is needed on all ...
21 October 2025 - In Part I of this two-part series, I examined the conflict at the heart of China’s Two Mountains Theory—the promise of both “green mountains and clear waters” and the “gold and silver” of economic growth. I argued that this framing is ultimately an absurdity: no ...
16 October 2025 - Opinion: The international development system we knew is gone, and there is no going back. What comes next depends on how we choose to respond.
In European capitals of multilateralism — Geneva, Brussels, Vienna — a new season is dawning. The illusion that we ...
15 October 2025 - Humanity faces a defining choice: do we climb the green mountain of ecological health and community wellbeing, or the gold and silver mountain of endless economic growth that is destroying the foundations of life on Earth?
No country dramatises the conflict ...
15 October 2025 - In its submission to the public consultation on the EU’s Circular Economy Act, the Materials and Consumption Taskforce makes three key recommendations. In this interview with Taskforce co-chair Lewis Akenji, he unpacks why a provisioning systems approach is ...
10 October 2025 - The publication of my new book, Women, Power, and the Economy: Collective Feminist Practice Can Transform the World, coincides with a pivotal moment in global transformation debates. Humanity faces converging crises—climate breakdown, deepening inequality, ...
26 September 2025 - A sustainable future—economic, social, ecological—cannot rest on the quicksand of impunity. Yet in 2025, the world faces a paradox that should alarm every leader, investor, and citizen: global systems rely more than ever on cooperation and trust, while the ...
24 September 2025 - Since The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome has championed the necessity of holistic, systemic thinking to guide humanity toward a sustainable future. In this spirit, a new paper by Stanislav Edward Shmelev, Comparative Multidimensional Assessment of Progress ...
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