will global challenges and transformative changes require deeper shifts in cultures and values?:...

Will addressing global challenges and promoting transformative changes require deeper shifts in

cultures and values?

Adj Prof. Johan KuylenstiernaExecutive Director

Stockholm Environment Institute

And the lemon prize goes to…

Technological fixesBehavioural changes

Population and resources

"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".”

Chasing resources: Land

Grabbing?

David Bainbridge Cartoon

1960s - awakening

1962: Impact of pesticides on ecosystemsand on the health of living creatures

A changing world - development in the Anthropocene…

Mega cities 1950

Källa: U.N. Population Division

Mega cities 2015

Source:U.N. Population Division

7,238,001,0705 June, 09:53:37

1970s – moving to action

Limits to Growth, 1972Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974

”Oil Crisis 1973”

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

The World Summit on Sustainable Development

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

• Rio Principles

• Agenda 21

• Global Conventions

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

• The Future We Want

• Sustainable Development Goals

• From ”the costs of inaction” to the ”benefits of action”

New concepts – new thinking?

The trouble with our

time is that the

future

is not what it used to

bePaul Valery THANK YOU

Johan KuylenstiernaJohan.kuylenstiernaSE@sei-international.org