1. Will addressing global challenges and promoting transformative
changes require deeper shifts in cultures and values?
Adj Prof. Johan Kuylenstierna
Executive Director
Stockholm Environment Institute

2. And the lemon prize goes to…

4. Technological fixes
Behavioural changes

5. Population and resources
"The power of
population is
indefinitely greater
than the power in the
earth to produce
subsistence for man".”

6. Chasing
resources: Land
Grabbing?
David Bainbridge Cartoon

7. 1960s - awakening
1962: Impact of
pesticides on ecosystems
and on the health of
living creatures

8. A changing world - development in
the Anthropocene…

9. Mega cities 1950
Källa: U.N.
Population Division
Mega cities 2015
Source:
U.N. Population Division
7,238,001,070
5 June, 09:53:37

11. 1970s – moving to action
Limits to Growth, 1972
Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974
”Oil Crisis 1973”

12. United Nations Conference on
the Human Environment
United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development
The World Summit on
Sustainable Development
United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development

13. United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development
• Rio Principles
• Agenda 21
• Global Conventions

15. United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development
• The Future We Want
• Sustainable Development Goals
• From ”the costs of inaction” to the
”benefits of action”

16. New concepts – new thinking?

17. The trouble with our
time is that the future
is not what it used to
be
Paul Valery
THANK YOU
Johan Kuylenstierna
Johan.kuylenstiernaSE@sei-international.org