World in Transition – A Social Contract for Sustainability
WBGU Report 2011
In this report, the WBGU (German Advisory Council on Global Change) explains the reasons for the desperate need for a post-fossil economic strategy, yet it also concludes that the transition to sustainability is achievable, and presents ten concrete packages of measures to accelerate the imperative restructuring. If the transformation really is to succeed, we have to enter into a social contract for innovation, in the form of a new kind of discourse between governments and citizens, both within and beyond the boundaries of the nation state.
Full text in englisch will be published in fall 2011
German Versions (full and executive Summary)
Source: WBGU report [1]