thank you very much it's an honor to be here what is the shape of progress what image do we have in our mind of progress the 20th century apparently gave us a very dominant shape of progress like this oh yeah growth endlessly and as everybody knows exponential growth it doesn't just stop where this host pipe stops it goes through the ceiling it was measured with one number we called it GDP the challenge of course is that we know that economic activity is resource intensive it uses energy it uses materials and the direction that needs to
travel is the other way because of the massive overshoot we face so goodbye to the one piece of pipe we need to start again we need a new compass for where we actually want to go a new shape of progress that serves these times that serves what we already know so I offer you one the only donut that actually turns out to be good for us because you don't need to eat this one we just need to put it into practice the goal leave no one in the hole in the middle of the donut falling
short on the essentials of life and leave no one without life's essential resources but at the same time do not overshoot that outer limit that is where we destroy the life supporting systems of the only known living planet in the universe meet the needs of all people within the means of this living planet surely this is our existential shared goal this is a new shape of progress because it's not endless growth it's thriving in balance between the social foundation and the ecological ceiling in fact I'm going to invite you to do this right now with
your hands just do the shapes right yeah here we are right thriving in balance and if you do it just close here it's just like a heartbeat we already know in our own bodies that our bodies Thrive when they are healthy in Balance enough food water oxygen heat but not too much human health lies in Balance can we take what we deeply know in our bodies and take from Human Health to planetary health and create a living world of which we are a part that thrives in balance if balance is the shape of future progress
we are so far from that right now as all the red here shows billions of people in the world fall short on your centers of life and we are overshooting six at least six of the nine planetary boundaries I've no doubt that all of our children's children will tug every one of us on the sleeve one day and say did you know about this and what did you do once that you knew how did you transform your work in business in government in education in community activism how did you transform your lifestyle your country your
company surely this is the story to turn around and we need metrics that tell us where to go and then policies that actually take us there from the global donut we can go to National Donuts four very different countries Malawi human shortfall without overshooting their share of the planet China double whammy human shortfall and ecological overshoot let's go to the us at the end massive ecological overshoot drawing so much of earth's resources into the East United States and Europe there the European nations certainly human shortfall and ecological overshoot together this is the story to turn
around how can this start to happen what if every nation in Europe indeed in the world started to say this is our goal now how do we unroll this donut let's open it up and go inside between the social foundation and the ecological ceiling I invite everyone imagine a place you live and love and ask of it this question how can our nation become a home to thriving people in a thriving place while respecting the well-being of all people and the health of the whole planet this is what the shape of progress becomes in fact
we have four questions to ask here there's local aspirations how can everybody here Thrive with food health education housing transport respect income a life of dignity for all here and how can local nature here Thrive how can our cities repair and restore and regenerate the ecosystems of which we're apart beautiful local aspirations but every city every nation is part of the world embedded through Global Supply chains through Global policies through histories of colonialism through futures of climate and ecological impacts we are connected to the world and must take our responsibilities for the whole so how
can we respect the health of the whole planet come back within that ecological overshoot of energy use and material reuse reduce our impact come back within this single living planet and how do we respect the rights of people worldwide the people who Stitch the clothes we're wearing who picked and packed the food we've eaten who assembled the lights and phones and cameras and screens and made the carpets and all the materials they are worldwide we haven't write a responsibility to respect their lives too so fine ideas local aspirations and Global responsibilities what if we actually
put this into practice this is where we must now go we have the vision now we need the action there are over 70 cities and regions and it's begun with cities and regions not with Nations but cities districts towns and regions who've taken this very concept and are putting it into practice in local government around the world let me show you just two Barcelona has unrolling the donut Gathering the metrics holding itself to account this will be the beginnings of the future tool for monitoring whether or not this city is living within the donut what
will be the policies that will actually take them there how will they reduce their carbon and material footprint while riding housing and education and health for all this is the 21st century challenge every city and Nation must take on Brussels right here a 10-minute ride away I was this morning in a fantastic meeting the Brussels Capital Region led by Barbara attract Secretary of State for economic transition are looking at Brussels through this lens with all the monitoring indicators but then following up with policies she was telling us we are changing the rules the regulations so
the only businesses that are beginning to respect these planetary boundaries can do business here Public Finance from 2030 will only flow to companies that actually are coming into this space public money will only fund research and Innovation that takes us into this space let's put on Service public services that ensure the resources we have provide first for the rights of all people the universal basic Services we need in place the Zoe Institute have created such a compass for the whole European Union using its own dashboards of resilience its own metrics it's time to follow through
with these metrics with policies that turn them into practice not a stability and growth pact but accompanying that with a well-being and stability state of well-being and sustainability pact Guided by these metrics because these are the metrics that will take us safely with security with resilience with human rights and ecological Integrity through the 25th to the 21st century [Applause] to work with policy makers who are already doing this who get in touch and say we're we're in action this is where leadership is along with the youth the policy makers you say were on it we're
doing it in these cities and we've just published a report which is showing how these 70 places are starting to put this into practice let's make this practice everywhere let's build on the peer leadership of those who are already in action showing that what some think is impossible is already beginning to happen are they as far as they need to be no way no way this is a challenge to begin in a city that's embedded in a nation embedded in a region embedded a global system that is pushing back with power against these changes and
yet we start and yet we rise so it is time to put these ideas into practice to take all the indicators we have and follow through with policies that actually begin to deliver this new shape of progress that is thriving thank you very much [Applause] thank you [Applause]
