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COVID-19 Can Help Wealthier Nations Prepare for a Sustainability Transition – Future Earth Blog Post and Video Forum

“The coronavirus situation provides, challenging though they may be, several leverage points for opening pathways to a sustainability transition.” Learn more about these leverage points including advantages of telecommuting, experiments with universal basic income, shopping local and more in this Future Earth blog post. Also check out a recording of an open forum on the same topic, sponsored by the Future Earth SSCP Knowledge-Action Network.

Discussion themes from the open forum include:

  • Designing sustainability-enhancing actions by government
  • New strategies for global governance
  • Reinforcing and locking in new lifestyle practices
  • Designing new systems of sustainable consumption and production
  • Social solidarity during the era of COVID-19 and beyond
  • COVID-19 and the often unacknowledged importance of the “care economy”
  • Lessons and insights from the global South
  • Developing new narratives for prosperity and wellbeing in the post-COVID-19 world
  • Comparative consideration of responses to crisis over time
  • COVID-19 as an opportunity for transdisciplinary research

Future Earth is a global platform for international scientific collaboration focused on transforming the world towards sustainability. The School of Global Environmental Sustainability houses the Colorado Hub, which is one of five hubs around the world.

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