In September 2019, the Club of Rome launched Planetary Emergency Plan on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York. The Plan, which was drafted in partnership with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), provides a set of key policy levers addressing the cross-cutting challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human health and well-being. It presents a vision of transformation and regeneration, a roadmap for governments to launch a decade in which our planet's development trajectory is steered towards a path intrinsically beneficial to all living species, with no one left behind. Its framework is simple but compelling: a catalytic intervention designed to inspire urgent action at the highest levels of decision-making.
It is a new contribution to the emergency debate, recognizing the inextricable interconnectedness of the three above-mentioned challenges and proposing a new approach to conventional siloed political action. In concrete terms, it links the protection and restoration of our global commons to the implementation of a series of economic and social transformations, in order to guarantee the long-term health and well-being of people and the planet.
The plan was launched in the presence of several heads of state and government (Austria, Bhutan, Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Fiji, Monaco, Norway, Seychelles, United Kingdom) as well as the First Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the European “Green Deal”, Frans Timmermans. The presentation of the plan was part of a global strategy to secure high-level commitments for a new deal for people, nature and climate in 2020, underpinned by the adoption of a declaration of global urgency and a concomitant action plan in the “super year” of 2020.
