THE CLUB OF ROME PODCAST
Episodes
Rethinking peace: Beyond the absence of war with Paul Shrivastava and Nolita Mvunelo
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are current peace frameworks struggling to meet today’s complex challenges and what would it take to create genuine security in the 21st Century...
Collapse & renewal: Civilisation at the brink of transformation with Nafeez Ahmed, Ginie Servant-Miklos & Till Kellerhoff
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As climate chaos, political polarisation and collapsing trust shake the foundations of society, we stand at a turning point. These overlapping crises ...
Africa's war on misinformation with Abdullahi Alim and Nolita Mvunelo
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Africa is on the frontline of a fast-moving battle against digital misinformation, one with profound effects for politics, trust and daily life. In th...
Building a wellbeing economy in turbulent times with Katherine Trebeck and Till Kellerhoff
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does the vision of a wellbeing economy remain both urgently needed and frustratingly out of reach? In this episode of The Club of Rome Podcast,...
Can feminism be African? With Minna Salami and Nolita Mvunelo
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does freedom look like for African women in a world shaped by crisis, colonial legacies, and patriarchy? How does African feminism take shape acr...
Women silencing the guns with Aya Chebbi and Nolita Mvunelo
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Africa’s adult population consists of three generations: the independence generation that lived through colonial rule and subsequent liberation, the...
From financing change to changing finance with Peter Blom and Till Kellerhoff
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Financing Change to Changing Finance Today’s financial system extracts value from natural, human, and social capital while increasing the gap b...
Music, film and authenticity for social change with Sishii and Nolita Mvunelo
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Music, art, and media have always played powerful roles in social movements that created long-lasting societal change. Will the 21st century be any di...
What needs to change to ensure climate action? Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Laurence Tubiana and Philippa Nuttall
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heatwaves and floods dominated the headlines in the summer of 2024. This lived reality of climate change is taking place against a backdrop of politic...
Universal Basic Dividend: A path to economic justice with Sarath Davala, Ken Webster and Till Kellerhoff
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the world faces increasing inequality and environmental degradation, the Universal Basic Dividend (UBD) emerges as a promising idea for a more equi...
Climate crises and public health in Africa with Saad Uakkas and Nolita Mvunelo
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The impacts of extreme weather events and climate crises are threatening many of the hard-won advancements in public health infrastructure across Afri...
Building climate resilience with vulnerable city dwellers with Sheela Patel and Philippa Nuttall
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
1 billion urban citizens live in informal settlements like slums and shanty towns, vulnerable to the most extreme impacts of climate change - flooding...
African self-liberation and new narratives of hope with Mamphela Ramphele and Nolita Mvunelo
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Almost thirty years after the end of apartheid, Black South Africans still fight for African liberation from colonial narratives. While previous gener...
Empowering female leadership in times of global challenges
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the transformative potential of female leadership. Our expert guests, Sharan Burrow, Sylvia Mukasa and Anna Rathmann delve into ...
David Collste - Research and strategies for accelerated systems-change - Earth4All Series
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, David Collste,researcher and modeller at the Stockholm Resilience Centre talks about the Earth4All framework's research and strategie...
The Club of Rome’s Nolita Mvunelo: Panic at the Disco, Pink Elephants and Pluralism
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nolita Mvunelo, Program Manager at the Club of Rome, and co-lead of The 50 Percent, talks to The Aspect about the importance of integrating multiple f...
Hunter Lovins - Five tranformations for a sustainable future - Earth4All Series
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hunter Lovins member of The Club of Rome, Earth4All contributor and the founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, gives a personal ins...
Owen Gaffney: Building a sustainable future through climate action and systems change
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Owen Gaffney, lead author of Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity, talks about building a sustainable future through climate ...
Anders Wijkman - The need for transformation not incrementalism- Earth4All series
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Anders Wijkman, Honorary President of The Club of Rome and Chair of the Governing Board of Climate-KIC talks to The Rhona Morrell Podc...
Jayati Ghosh: What Earth4All means for most of the world’s people.
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jayati Ghosh, a co-author of ‘Earth for All’, outlines how reducing inequality is the key to a just transition towards a greener ...
Roberto Pasqualino - From World3 to modelling financial implications of global energy crisis
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Roberto Pasqualino, a researcher at the University of Cambridge shares how his work on the Economic Risk Resources and Environment mo...
Mamphela Ramphele - Limits to Growth or Limits and Beyond?
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mamphela Ramphele, Club of Rome co-president and a co-author of ‘Limits and Beyond’, talks about the importance of including rela...
Ugo Bardi - The Limits to Growth 50 years later. The role of models in studying the future.
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ugo Bardi, Club of Rome member and the editor of ‘Limits and Beyond’, discusses the role of models as tools to examine the future...
Julia Kim - Beyond GDP, Beyond Numbers: Bhutan’s Journey Towards Gross National Happiness
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julia Kim, a co-author to ‘Limits and Beyond’ shares the lessons from Bhutan’s national-level experiment of Gross National Happ...
Gaya Herrington - I did a data comparison on the world model that predicted collapse.
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gaya Herrington, a contributor to ‘Earth for All’ discusses the methods and findings of her empirical data comparison of the scen...
Jørgen Randers - From “The Limits to Growth” to “Earth for All” – the long global perspective
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Club of Rome member Jørgen Randers talks about the long global perspective of sustainability since the publication of ‘The Limits ...
What has the EU learned & where do we go from here? Part 2
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Club of Rome member Maja Goepel is in discussion with MEP Philippe Lamberts and MEP Aurore Lalucq on how to shift to a wellbeing econ...
What has the EU learned & where do we go from here? Part 1
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses the growing thinking within EU institutions and across Member States on how to shift to a wellbeing economy in times of crisis ...
Silo Solving - Transformational Economics, Ecology, & Equality
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this guest pairing, a historian of Thomas Paine (Gary Berton) and a Co-President of The Club of Rome + Project Lead for Earth4All (Sandrine Dixson-...
Will the world end its addiction to growth?
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
50 years after The Limits to Growth we consider the impact of the report and what is happening to create a new social and economic paradigm that will ...
The Club of Rome’s Till Kellerhoff: Earth4All and The Limits to Growth
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Till Kellerhoff, Program Director of the Club of Rome and Coordinator & National Engagement Lead of the Earth4All initiative talk...
Limits and Beyond
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All speakers in this event are coauthors of the book Limits and Beyond. They share their reflections on the relevance of the seminal report The Limits...
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
50 years after the groundbreaking The Limits to Growth report, a new book Earth For All details five turnarounds that are the minimum requirements fo...
Living within Limits
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Limits to Growth modeled our planet’s interconnected systems and warned that if growth trends in population, industrialisation, resource use and...
The Limits to Growth, 50 years later with Jorgen Randers
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Earth For All is an update to the landmark 1972 book - The Limits to Growth - that warned of our unsustainable growth. Jorgen Randers, Club of Rome me...