Earth4All
Earth4All is a vibrant collective of leading economic thinkers, scientists, and advocates, convened by The Club of Rome, the BI Norwegian Business School, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Building on the legacies of The Limits to Growth and the Planetary Boundaries frameworks, science is at the heart of our work. Leading scientists have developed state of the art systems dynamic models and run different scenarios for possible plausible futures.
Earth4All is guided by a Transformational Economics Commission, made up of economic thinkers from across the globe to explore new economic thinking and test the model outcomes.
The third pillar is a global campaign that aims to make the Earth4All vision a reality, advocating for governments to adopt policies that will enable resilient and healthy societies.
We are providing a platform to connect and amplify the voices of people and organisations who want to upgrade our economies. The momentum is growing, with communities and policy makers around the world pushing for economic systems change.
https://earth4all.life/who-we-are/
Key people
Theory of Change
Earth4all suggests that there are two possible futures: 'too little too late' and 'The Giant Leap'. They are advocating for the 'giant leap', and they expand on what that entails here:
This scenario assumes societies embark on a new path to a sustainable world by 2050. What if we fundamentally reconfigure our economies, energy and food systems so that they work for both people and the planet? Climate change, financial turbulences, worldwide urbanization trends, growing numbers of natural disasters, impacts of fake news, migration: coping with the grand challenges of the 21st century needs a deeper quantitative and predictive understanding of complex systems. The science of complex systems provides us with new methods and novel ways of addressing these systems that were thought to be unintelligible only a few decades ago.
They also have a 'Transformational Economics Commission', which explores the following themes:
Key Learning Resources
- Earth 4 All: A Survival Guide for Humanity (2022) by Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström and Per Espen Stoknes: https://earth4all.life/the-book/
- Deep-dive papers to delve further into the issues and solutions needed to transform our economic system and provide an equitable future for all on a finite planet: https://earth4all.life/publications/
Connections
Earth4All is a vibrant collective of leading economic thinkers, scientists, and advocates, convened by The Club of Rome, the BI Norwegian Business School, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
The initiative is supported by:
- the Angela Wright Bennett Foundation
- the Generation Foundation
- the Global Challenges Foundation
- the Laudes Foundation
- Partners_for_a_New_Economy