OUR WORLD
ARTICLE
A Call for
Future-Fit Governance
A
nna Borgeryd addressed this call
of a Swedish working group, The
StepWise Group, to governments
and businesses across the world to
take action to promote a positive
systems change and work strate
gically towards sustainability. She pointed out that
while climate change, toxicity, shrinking biodiversity,
poverty, degradation of food production capacity
or corruption are all great challenges, the greatest challenge, the one that drives the rest, is ignorance or inaction on the part of our political and
industrial leaders regarding the mechanisms of destruction of our ecological and social systems. They
call upon leaders to adopt a systems perspective to
help society become sustainable.
Anna Borgeryd A Call for Future-Fit Governance
Stockholm 2016 02 03
Sustainability is scientifically defined by robust operational principles. Scientific studies of planetary
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boundaries show global systemic consequences of
humanity’s present, unsustainable behavior. We
know that the economy currently powering our
civilization comes with yet-to-be-paid-for external