Growing within limits. A report to the Global Assembly 2009 of the Club of Rome

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Current trends in fossil-fuel use and inefficient land use will lead to large global environmental problems with respect to climate change and biodiversity loss. Technical and economically feasible options are available to meet the challenge to avoid these problems. The main issue is that of creating institutional and policy conditions for a more sustainable economy. This report looks into the possible developments in the climate and energy system on the one hand, and biodiversity and land use on the other hand. Obviously, also other important global environmental problems exist, but these are outside the scope of this report. The report presents two scenarios: a baseline, business-as-usual scenario (Trend scenario) explores the risks of climate change and biodiversity loss, while the Challenge scenario explores the pathway and required actions to bring about a more environmentally sustainable future (Chapter 2). This chapter also briefly assesses whether the threat of overshoot and co

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