The document discusses several major global trends that are driving the need for a new sustainable development model, including geopolitical shifts, technological advances, social changes, and environmental pressures. It notes disagreements between different groups on issues like economic growth, resource availability, and climate change. The document suggests we must blend concerns for humanity and ecology with energy economics and politics to forge a shared global ethics and secure nations, people, and the planet for a sustainable future.

38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
UPADk-rU1AI

39. Geopolitical shifts and re-alignments
• Economic and finance system change and fundamentals
• A new technological era: 4th
Industrial Revolution.
• Global production systems & the rise of new (multinational)
corporations
• Social Changes (networked economies), and the quest for social
wealth & justice
• Planetary boundaries/ Resource Scarcities/ Loss of Biodiversity
and Nature
• Demographic change and migration/ Changing labour markets

42. BRIC:
It’s our time. Let us grow our
Economies and take care of
our people
You’ll fix whatever you want to
fix!
The West:
“If you do as I have done
it will be
a mess.
Let us all change- rapidly
Let’s secure our nation,
people and planet
Emerging:
Will there be enough for
us?
Can i afford it?
Who will deliver it to me?
The poor:
When will we see
electricity and get
mobility?
Opec and GasPec:
You need us!
We can deliver your needs!
What is all that fuzz about
Availability and climate change?

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64. 1. Sustainable Development- a new kind of
Globalization (2016)
2. Sustainable Humanity (2012)
3. We can no longer manage decency (2018)
4. Aga Khan University Special Lecture Series:
Can we find a shared global ethics for the 21st
century? (2020)

66. "The invitation we have today is to see and to blend our deep
consciousness and care for Humanity and Ecology with our more
mainstream energy economics and politics- at play"