Environment Europe

29/08/2025

We are absolutely delighted to share with you something our founder and a Full Member of the Club of Rome, Dr Stanislav Edward Shmelev have been working on for quite a long time. The seminal paper "Comparative Multidimensional Assessment of Progress Towards Sustainability at the Macro Scale: The Cases of 12 OECD Countries, China, and Brazil" has finally been published https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/17/7772 It attempts the impossible: to deepen our understanding what sustainability really is, but, more importantly, it attempts to provide a comprehensive comparative, dynamic and multidimensional assessment of sustainability of a whole range of countries over a very long time horizon. To start in 1960 really meant that some countries will not be possible to include for the lack of continuous data. Some issues with continuous data still remain and we had to resort to proxies where necessary. Overall, we are very pleased that the paper is published. Please read, share and cite!

26/07/2025

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns that AI superintelligence could soon demand more energy than Earth can provide. As chip performance accelerates, power consumption is growing faster. His caution raises red flags for tech’s sustainability crossroads. 🤖⚠️
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05/02/2025

I am delighted to share my joy regarding the fact that our new paper: Corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance Performance: The Impacts on Financial Returns, Business Model Innovation, and Social Transformation
has just been published https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/3/1286. The paper meticulously studies some of the largest 30 companies in the world with a total market cap amounting to 9.7% of the global. Some positive news and inconvenient truths are revealed. Happy reading! hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag

21/11/2024

We are absolutely delighted that our founder, Dr Stanislav Shmelev has been elected on of 100 Full Members of the The Club of Rome! Congratulations!

We welcome Stanislav Edward Shmelev as a new member of The Club of Rome. Stanislav is an ecological economist with a career spanning over 20 years, focusing on pressing global challenges such as climate change, renewable energy, and urban sustainability. Based in Oxford, he is the founder and CEO of Environment Europe Limited, where he has pioneered innovative sustainability assessment methods and developed a unique executive education programme in ecological economics and sustainability, training professionals from over 60 countries.

Stanislav’s contributions to the interdisciplinary field of ecological economics include work on macroeconomic sustainability, circular economy, biodiversity, and decarbonisation strategies. He has authored and edited several volumes, including Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice and Green Economy Reader, and his research has been published in leading academic journals.

As a Visiting Professor, consultant to international organisations, and a renowned artist, Shmelev brings a unique blend of science and creativity to his work.

Find out more about Stanislav Shmelev 👇

🔗https://www.clubofrome.org/member/shmelev-stanislav/

16/10/2024

We are really saddened to tell you that Prof. Peter Soderbaum, Environment Europe long-standing friend and supporter has passed away. Peter has taught at the numerous executive programmes Environment Europe has been running over the years. Peter, we will miss you!

09/10/2024

We cannot even begin to understand the impact that all the people featured in this film, Dr Stephan Harding, Prof. Brian Goodwin, Prof. Fritjof Capra, Satish Kumar that we can call friends, have had on our professional development. Please feel free to share and enjoy!

DOC: Animate Earth is a documentary film written and presented by Dr Stephan Harding, renowned ecologist and colleague of James Lovelock. Stephan puts forward a radical approach to the ecological crisis by arguing that many of the problems we now face stem from having lost our intuitive relationship...

09/10/2024

Our panel 'Paving the Way to Urban Sustainability: Connecting Values, Policies, Planning, Design and ESG Investment' to take place at United Nations UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum at
17:00 on 07 Nov 2024 in Cairo. https://wuf.unhabitat.org/event/wuf12/paving-way-urban-sustainability-connecting-values-policies-planning-design-and-esg RT

04/09/2024

Environment Europe Foundation is absolutely delighted to let you know that our panel "Paving the Way to Urban Sustainability. Connecting Values, Policies, Planning, Design and Esg Investment" has been approved by the United Nations UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum and will take place in Cairo between 06 and 08 November 2024. https://wuf.unhabitat.org/event/wuf12/paving-way-urban-sustainability-connecting-values-policies-planning-design-and-esg
In this light we are looking for volunteers engaged in Masters and PhD programmes around Europe who would be willing to engage and support our activities through promotion online and on sight, research, data analysis and curation as well as other initiatives. Please send your CV to [email protected].

25/05/2024

It was very nice to meet our hero Satish Kumar, the founder of and the editor of the Resurgence magazine at the B for Good Leaders Summit in Amsterdam

26/10/2023

It is with great sadness that I have to share the news that my long-time friend and co-author, Prof. Robert U. Ayres has passed away. A true pioneer of ecological economics worthy of a Nobel Prize that was never awarded, Robert Ayres has been a prolific author and a wonderful friend. Member of the Environment Europe Foundation advisory board, Bob has taught ecological economics at the executive programmes I have been running in Oxford. Bob's love of life was unparalleled, he enjoyed skiing, cycling and travelling and collected rare edition books. I will cherish the memories of playing scrabble with him and his late wife, Leslie in his Paris flat. Some of our joint work is available following this link: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/13/7352 or https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-38919-6 . RIP dear friend.

06/09/2023

SAVE THE VAULTS & GARDEN CAFE
We need your support!

After twenty years serving ethical, healthy, affordable food and refreshments to the people of Oxford, we have been given three months’ notice to close by the Church.

You can make a difference! Please sign, and share on social media the petition started by our many supporters to help us stay open.

We want to continue serving our lovely customers and work with our wonderful suppliers. We also want to continue to work with the Church to fulfil their social aspirations.

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