More attention for the book

The book Evidence for Hope, available at Amazon, is subject of a podcast of IDS. I was interviewed by the amiable James Georgalakis, Director of Evidence and Impact of the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton, UK. His questions were quite challenging and gave additional insight on why the book is relevant for our times. If you are interested to listen to our conversation, click on this reference: https://tinyurl.com/26fsjp3m.   Furthermore, a panel of high-level colleagues (Geeta Batra, Indran Naidoo, Neha Sharma and Juha Uitto) will discuss the emerging sustainability revolution that is in the subtitle of my book, at the IDEAS/NDB conference in Rome on 5-6 March 2025. I will give the introductory presentation and join the panel. I hope to see many friends and colleagues in the audience! The issue of the sustainability revolution is that increasingly sustainable solutions turn out to be cheaper than unsustainable ones. Times may seem dire, with populists like Trump changing the rules and returning to colonial times in word and deed, and he and others may lead us back into times that have passed, but sustainability will nevertheless have the future. While many people like the simple messages from populists, they will nevertheless move over to renewable energies, simply because they are cheaper than fossil fuels and will become ever cheaper. Our future is a world of an abundance of energy, available and managed locally, enabling democratisation of power. Other sustainability problems, like the agro-industry, will follow later; in laboratories, research centres and local communities all over the world experiments are taking place that will show the way forward.