Till Kellerhoff presents the Club of Rome’s new report “Earth4All: a survival guide for Humanity” (2022), published 50 years after the famous report “The Limits to Growth”, which laid the foundation for the concept of sustainability.

Based on an analysis of different scenarios, “Earth4All” proposes a framework of five turnarounds that can support long-term prosperity on a stable planet, but to be achieved requires a shift in the current economic paradigm to build a future that provides a greater balance between people and the planet.

The conference “From the Limits to Growth to Earth4All: Wellbeing for All on a Finite Planet” is part of the effort to disseminate this important and innovative report in Ticino and help inspire a constructive dialogue concerning the urgent actions needed to address climate change.

Co-organized by SUPSI Centre for Development and Cooperation (CDC) and Competence Centre for Territorial and Climate Change (CCCT), the conference will be introduced by Roman Rudel, director of SUPSI Institute of Applied Sustainability to the Built Environment (ISAAC), who will later dialogue with Till Kellerhoff.

Free event, in English.
The presentation, open to all interested people, is part of the academic program of the CAS- Certificate of Advanced Studies in Cooperation and Development.
Registration required for organizational reasons.

Biographies

Till Kellerhof is Program Director at the Club of Rome. After studying social sciences, economics, and international relations at the University of Erfurt, he earned his master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Since 2017, Till Kellerhoff has been working at the Club of Rome, where he leads the Reclaiming Economics Impact Hub and has been active since 2021 as Program Director, contributing author, and National Engagement Lead for Earth4All, an international initiative to accelerate the systems-change we need for an equitable future on a finite planet. His thematic interests include the social-ecological transformation, the political economy of trade, inequality, well-being economics, sustainable development, and systems thinking. Since 2023 Till is a visiting lecturer at the University of Erfurt. In March 2024 his book “Tax the Rich - Warum die Reichen zahlen müssen, wenn wir die Welt retten wollen” will be published.

Roman Rudel’s academic background is in Geography with particular focus on the complex relation between socio-economic development and the environment /climate change. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Fribourg for a thesis on the ecological transformation of the industrial society, has over 20 years of research experience in the field of technological and institutional innovations applied to the mobility and energy sector and was member of the first national action plan on sustainable development. 
Since 2008 he is head of the SUPSI Institute for Applied Sustainability to the Built Environment, active in the field of renewable energy generation such as photovoltaics, energy efficiency in buildings, energy policy and behavioural changes. His interest is in interdisciplinary research on the energy transition and he fosters the development of new research topics such as smart grid, digitization in the energy and building sector as well as the emergence of the prosumer.