Opportunity for new patterns of growth
The financial crisis and the consequent economic slowdown provide an exceptional opportunity to move towards new patterns of more sustainable and equitable growth. Only through new ideas, new part- nerships, new mechanisms and radical institutional change the answers to the unprecedented challenges ahead can be found. The 2009 annual Club of Rome Global Assembly unites many of the bricks of the New Path that are emerging all around the globe and invited everyone to come and help lay out the first stretch.
Club of Rome Global Assembly 2009, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
How do we get rid off the inefficiencies and spilling in our technology and economic system? What gover- nance structures can secure common goods, like ac- cess to energy, biodiversity and ecosystems services? And what new accounting systems can better measure prosperity than GDP does? What financial systems
can promote equitable and carbon free growth? These were just a few of the themes that were discussed and led to a declaration proposing key ingredients for a global new green deal.
The Assembly was the last of seven stepping stones, seven global meetings, starting in Turin early 2008, in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Copenhagen in December 2009, on which depends so much. On this DVD you’ll find a report in which many of the participants of the assembly share their vision on the future of our world.