Our current financial system is built on the idea of infinite economic growth. Reliant on ever-increasing quantities of production, consumption and financial returns, this system requires continuous growth in order to maintain its stability. However, more than a century of unsustainable consumption and production has eroded our natural capital, transgressed the safe operating space for […]

Drivers of innovation Innovation usually happens in response to problems, constraints or opportunities. While the word “innovation” is often associated with technological innovation, it encompasses a much wider range of contexts, including systems, processes, behaviours and institutions. In many cases, innovation in these contexts depend on each other. In fact, the UK Committee on Climate […]

I broadly agree with the CISL definition, seeing successful decarbonisation programmes as those which implement emission reductions which are: As 1.5 degree pathways are adjusted through time this will affect the level of outcome required to be justified as “successful”. NB Contrary to The Economist I don’t think we should encourage any sense of abandonment from […]

The Sustainable Food Policy Alliance (SFPA) believes that food has the potential to be a driving force for social and environmental progress. Food companies like ours, the farmers who grow our ingredients, and consumers who buy our products sit at the cross section of communities most impacted by climate change, which poses an existential threat […]