The SDG Thought Leaders Circle thanks the Club of Budapest and the Laszlo Institute for these additions to the SDG Thought Leaders Circle’s Commentaries. See also their listing in the resource area under Activities. The Club of Budapest (est. 1993) is a group of...
Taken as a whole, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals represent a framework for equitable global prosperity. Since the United Nations began considering development on a worldwide scale, our understanding of the interrelatedness of all their component parts has...
The UN’s admirable SDGs were developed by 193 separate nation states. This fragmentation reflects the fundamental assumptions of humanity’s disconnected worldview. Nations, like people, cannot be united in the absence of a recognition of oneness, a common story that...
We are all citizens on this planet, nurtured and supported by the planet’s ecology. We are World Citizens in the Awareness that this is a shared ecology where what we do has consequences throughout the world – beyond borders and national identity. …The Essential Shift...
There is a powerful place where science, policy and politics can converge as a gateway to our greatest expressions of creativity and potential. The same sweet spot of such possibility, however, also holds the power to destroy the very values that we cherish as...
The vast and disparate issues of our world that the Sustainable Development Goals seek to address can all be traced to a common origin; the insidious, systemic fear of individuals for their personal wellbeing. When the underlying program running for most of humanity...
About the Club of Budapest and The Laszlo Institute
