Interested in learning the full history of Deep Transitions?
We describe every milestone since the first Deep Transition that started this global meltdown several 100 years ago.
Are we heading for a breakdown or a breakthrough?
The cascading crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and growing inequality have led to an evidence-based consensus among international organisations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) that business-as-usual will produce catastrophe.
To avoid disaster and embrace system change to achieve a deep transition to worldwide sustainability, we must radically change the way we invest. In an unprecedented global research project, historians, sustainability experts, and public and private investors collaborated to formulate a response to this challenge: Transformative Investment.
The Deep Transitions Investment Philosophy contains 12 principles to provoke real action and systemic impact. Socio-technical systems providing basic needs such as energy, mobility, and food are currently based on unsustainable practices such as fossil fuel dependency, globalisation and mass production. Transformative Investments are long-term investments that trigger multi-dimensional change, and remake the rules of one or more socio-technical systems. The 12 principles for Transformative Investment guide this process.
Principles to set the course and catalyse thinking on how to make Transformative Investment part of your organisation.
Principles that support the decision-making process when developing a strategy for investing in transformation.
Principles that can help inspire, shape and stretch the investment process of your organisation
Principles to support improvement and learning throughout the journey towards Transformative Investment.
The estimated global net present value of stranded assets in coal power generation through 2050 ranges from
Over the next 15 years the OECD estimates that an annual investment of
in energy, transport, building and water systems is necessary to meet the requirements of a 2 degree scenario as set in the Paris Agreement.
Download the full Transformative Investment Philosophy for a deep dive into its background, process, and impact or the Quick Guide for initial understanding.