Introduction to Week 2
This week, we’ll explore different ways of measuring progress in society. We learnt last week that only measuring the material and the economic simply is not good enough. GDP was …
Course: Global Prosperity Beyond GDP
Transitioning to the Green Economy
With these new approaches to business, the important thing to take away from it is to not only see these businesses as individual pioneers trying a new approach. They are …
Fast Forward 2030
Now we move on to other ideas of what business can and should be. In this video, Arthur Kay and Richard Ballard explain the vision behind Fast Forward 2030, a …
What happens when transitioning towards sustainability is against business interests?
In this video, Achim Steiner reasons that pushback against change from conservative businesses is in many ways a rational reflex to protect billions of dollars in investment, and a long-term …
Jonathon Porritt on consumption habits
Jonathon argues that, far from thinking we are powerless to change things, if we have even a little imagination we can think of new ways of doing things that can …
Are we stuck in an iron cage of consumerism?
Tim Jackson argues that we are locked into consumerism by a complex of social, psychological and economic forces – can you identify how these operate in your life or the …
Next steps
We have now reached the end of the course, but there are a range of ways in which you can keep up-to-date with the work of the Institute for Global …
“Our power to make a difference is greater today than it ever has been”
To close, two of our contributors Kate Raworth and Achim Steiner say a few words about what people can do to make change.
Framing the market
In this video, Jonathon Porritt explains how the market can be “framed” to make it more responsive to social and economic value. He gives two recent examples from the UK …
The short-term vs long-term dilemma for business
The main building blocks of any economy is enterprise. A key part of moving towards a more sustainable, long-term vision of economic activity is over-coming the short-term pressures business has …
Introduction to Week 4
In the fourth and final week of this course, we’ll be talking about how we can build a new economy together. An economy that tackles the challenges of the 21st …
Kate Raworth introduces The Doughnut
In this video, Kate Raworth describes how The Doughnut is a compass for success in the 21st Century. It sets out how our target should be to meet the basic …
What is the Paris Climate Agreement?
The year 2050 will be a big year for the global community. By then, the population is set to explode to just under 10 billion people. That is approximately a …
The People’s Report Card
In this video, Michael Green from the Social Progress Imperative explains a tool they developed to help people keep track of their country’s progress towards the SDGs. It’s called the …
Do the SDGs challenge our current thinking about economics?
Achim Steiner is currently the Executive Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Before that, he was Director of the Oxford Martin school, a research organisation based at Oxford …