In May this year, in the run up to the Rio Conference, a new report to the Club of Rome was
launched, entitled: 2052 – A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, in which author Jorgen
Randers tries to answer the question about the state of the world in forty years’ time. The Report
raises fundamental questions about the challenges facing humankind, and whether the planet can
survive if we continue to over consume, the same question behind the Rio negotiations.
