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What will it take to break the link between economic growth and the stability of our financial, political and international systems?

The humble spreadsheet was the shareholder value revolution’s “killer app”. Now it’s time to make decisions differently — but how?

The biggest barrier to effective climate action today isn’t denialism, or even apathy, but our propensity to believe convenient fantasies.

Why has the post-growth movement been such a failure in political terms? And what can it learn from neoliberalism’s success?

Why are we so bad at dealing with long-term risks? Because short-sightedness is encoded in the tools and models we use to allocate capital.

Greta Thunberg is right. By the only measure that really matters, COP26 was a failure. But this was a failure of process, not of personnel.

Demographic trends are among the most powerful and predictable forces shaping humanity’s future. We should pay more attention to them.

In recent weeks, the gloves have come off in the ESG wars. Here are three predictions for what to expect once the dust settles.

Fifty years ago, an American lawyer called Lewis Powell Jr. wrote a memo that deserves to be better remembered than it is.

By James Vaccaro, Executive Director, Climate Safe Lending Network; co-founder, Bankers for Net Zero; and a Volans Associate

Could a new breed of activist investor help change capitalism for the better?

‘Capitalism is both the greatest source of prosperity and progress in human history and the greatest threat to it.

Better news! In 2020, for the first time, Earth Overshoot Day — the day in the year when our total consumption of resources overtakes our…

The Bankers for NetZero initiative is making the built environment its first focus sector, in partnership with the UK Green Building…

Walk to Work #5

A regional regeneration partnership in Fife is a potential model for a bottom-up green recovery. Here’s why.

The pandemic has made further disruptive shocks — both positive and negative — more likely over the decade ahead.

John Elkington

John Elkington

John Elkington

John Elkington

By John Elkington

As world leaders gather in Davos this week, we are hearing lots of chatter about stakeholder capitalism. But how serious is the talk?

Three key takeaways from a discussion on what it will take for procurement teams to play their part in the shift to a regenerative economy.

Week of 14th October 2019

What ethical blindspots will future generations judge us for, in the way that we judge our forebears for condoning slavery?

‘Modern capitalism has the potential to lift us all to unprecedented prosperity, but it is morally bankrupt and on track for tragedy.’

This blog is an adapted (and expanded) version of a talk I gave at the Global Goals Forum in Berlin on 10th October.

Week of the 23rd September 2019