The climate is changing faster than we are — how do we speed up?

Rapid economic transition, including widespread behaviour change to sustainable lifestyles, is necessary to live within planetary ecological boundaries and to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees. Find out more

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Story of change

Moving to a four day working week with one month’s notice

A new survey of American workers shows two thirds wanting to work a shorter week compared to the conventional five days. But less than one fifth of...

Posted on 18 February 2019

Decent work

Story of change

The New Deal and a Green New Deal – turning economic and environmental disasters into an opportunity for national, public renewal

A proposal for a Green New Deal from the dynamic new Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a rallying point for progressive politics...

Posted on 11 February 2019

Enough money, Decent work, Clean energy

Story of change

The World’s first renewable island – when a community embraces wind power

The Danish island of Samsø went from being entirely fossil fuel dependent to becoming the World’s first 100% renewable island, in under a decade. In...

Posted on 4 February 2019

Clean energy, Better homes

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Commentary

‘We march now so we won’t have to swim later’

Many have wondered when the scale of public protest will match the scale of the climate crisis. That question increasingly is being answered by the sudden...

By Andrew Simms on 15 February 2019

Commentary

New economic stories are needed to unblock the political embrace of rapid transition

The breakdown of the climate will only be averted by rapid and radical action, but political courage and imagination are blunted blocked by narrow...

By Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams on 28 January 2019

Resource

We need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty – and we need it now

The publication of the IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees concluded that only “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all...

Posted on 30 October 2018

Clean energy

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We want to learn from where, when and how things have changed very quickly. Do you have a story of rapid transition?

They could be from the past or now, and from anywhere in the world. We are interested in all sectors of the economy. They don’t have to be specifically about sustainability, though we’d like you to tell us why they are relevant and what lessons they might offer for rapid transitions to sustainability.

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News & Commentary

Commentary
Smog Day fell as pollution rose & one of Europe’s worst air quality countries holds climate talks
Posted on 6 December 2018
Commentary
Squaring urgency and equity in the just transition debate
Posted on 25 October 2018

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Resources

Resource
We need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty – and we need it now
Posted on 30 October 2018
Report
Climate & Rapid Behaviour Change. What do we know so far?
Posted on 15 October 2018
Report
How did we do that? The possibility of rapid transition
Posted on 24 April 2017

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