Stockholm Series #5 with Sandrine Dixson-Declève – video and manuscript
How to achieve global sustainability in a world of inequality, planetary crisis, and democratic backsliding was the topic of the fifth event in the Stockholm Series of Public Lectures on Climate Change and Democracy, which took place on 28 January 2025 at International IDEA’s Headquarters in Stockholm, with Sandrine Dixson-Declève.
The video recording and the lecture manuscript are now available. What is more, we interviewed Sandrine for a podcast episode.
Sandrine Dixson-Declève is Honorary President of the Club of Rome and Executive Director of Earth4All. In her lecture, she presented the thinking behind her co-authored book Earth for All – A Survival Guide for Humanity (2022) and how the team behind the book is now working to implement that thinking. Earth for All was published as the anniversary report of the Club of Rome’s 1972 report Limits to Growth. It builds on the fact that humanity is breaching the planetary boundaries and that this is inextricably linked to growing socio-economic inequality. Sandrine underscored that inequality reduces well-being and social trust, enabling the shift to autocratic tendencies that we are seeing across many societies. To turn this development around, she presented five key pathways and policy proposals that would enable prosperity for all, people and planet.
The lecture was followed by a conversation with Jens Orback, Strategic Advisor at the Global Challenges Foundation, and Dr Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary-General of International IDEA. The discussion touched on the need of new narratives to convey climate policy not as a cost but in terms of co-benefits, the need to renew our market economies and growth models, and the importance of strengthening the infrastructure of democracy – public participation, rule of law, and civil society.
