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Interested in learning the full history of Deep Transitions?
We describe every milestone since the first Deep Transition that started this global meltdown several 100 years ago.
Humanity faces a stark and urgent choice: Are we heading for a breakdown or a breakthrough?
Deep Transitions
Bringing about a just and sustainable world
Together, we face a choice: breakdown or breakthrough? How we respond now to the cascading crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and growing inequality will determine the future. Business-as-usual will result in catastrophe, but there is an alternative. To avoid disaster we must embrace system change and radically change the way we invest. In a collaboration between sustainability experts, academics, innovators and public and private investors, the Deep Transitions team produced a response to this challenge: Transformative Investment. This is practiced at the Deep Transitions Lab, where we run experiments, develop tools and metrics, conduct research and grow a community of practice.
Mission
To mobilise and inspire a transformation in the way we invest, ultimately seeing Transformative Investment become the norm. Grow a community dedicated to innovation, experimentation and real-life action, in close collaboration with our partners. Our mission is to establish a niche in the finance industry and contribute to its scaling.
Vision
To shift investment away from innovations that optimise and reinforce our current unsustainable systems. Instead, we want to unleash the transformative power of capital by redirecting investment towards multiple systems change – bringing about a deep transition, where the world develops according to just and sustainable principles.
Transformative Investment
Shifting Investment Practices
Deep Transitions thinking is grounded in academic research. It explains how change unfolded in the past in order to learn how to shape the future. A Deep Transition is a series of interconnected system changes that transforms society in a fundamental way. Our current world runs on the systems that were created 250 years ago with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. However, the rules that underpin this world are the root causes of the major challenges we face today, such as climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality. The lab aims to help us move towards multiple system change, which is paramount if we want to see a just and sustainable future.
The estimated global net present value of
stranded assets
in coal power generation through 2050 ranges from
$1.3 to $2.3 trillion
Over the next 15 years the OECD estimates that an annual investment of
$ 6.9 trillion
in energy, transport, building and water systems is necessary to meet the requirements of a
2 degree scenario
as set in the Paris Agreement.
Financing system change
12 principles, one mission
The Deep Transitions Investment Philosophy contains 12 principles to create systemic impact. Socio-technical systems providing basic needs, such as energy, mobility and food, are currently based on unsustainable practices such as fossil fuel dependency, globalisation and mass production. Transformative Investments are long-term investments that trigger multi-dimensional change, and remake the rules of one or more socio-technical systems. The 12 principles guide this process.
Goal Setting
Principles to set the course and catalyse thinking on how to make Transformative Investment part of your organisation.
Investment Strategy
Principles that support the decision-making process when developing a strategy for investing in transformation.
Investment Process
Principles that can help inspire, shape and stretch the investment process of your organisation
Sharing & Learning
Principles to support improvement and learning throughout the journey towards Transformative Investment.
Who we are
The Deep Transitions team is a group of transitions scholars, economists, innovation experts, futurists and professional staff, united in our ambition to make transformative investment a reality and be part of the push towards a sustainable and inclusive future. Our network stretches the globe: we are active in both private and public sectors with our sister project Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) focused on policy making and funding.
Let's talk
Get in touch if you want to hear more about what we do or start your journey towards transformative investment.
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