Once we have received all suggestions from our partners we will create a shortlist, and those chosen will be the inaugural candidates for the Green Swan Observatory. As Elkington adds, “Too often, Black Swans take you exponentially where you don’t want to go, whereas Green Swans take you exponentially where you do want to go. This, according to Elkington means that there needs to be room for a lot of different initiatives to explore and unfold. Purtroppo il quadro politico internazionale post covid non mi sembra vada nella direzione di una grande collaborazione sui temi climatici, e il G20 di questi giorni sta confermando il classico stallo e rinvio sul tema. In part this may be because breakthrough technologies are by their very nature difficult to predict.

If there was a consistent narrative throughout the book focussed on wicked problems and how they can be overcome, I think the book would have been better. This organisation advises that society must “empower market actors to recognize and reward the right kinds of action”, by changing how we define and create regenerative business value and wealth. The other is that attempting to solve a problem by subsidising the thing creating it is a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, however, all this effort has signally failed to head off a growing number of “wicked problems”, at the outer edge of which we see the Black Swans flagged by Taleb. Described as the “Godfather of Sustainability,” he has now written or co-authored 20 books, including the million-selling Green Consumer Guide series.Part 2 of the book, ‘Black Versus Green’, focuses on key characteristics that separate Black from Green and how to spot them. During the last 50 years, we doubled the world’s population, grew our economic activity eight-fold, and started using two to three times more global resources than ever before.

Es un retrofitting de su ‘Triple Impacto’, resaltando la necesidad de integrar una mirada sistémica de las tres. The Observatory collates practical, verified examples of market shifts, businesses, policy innovation, technologies and individuals with demonstrated potential to drive rapid and radical change across issues, themes and geographies. John shared how Volans is about to launch a ‘Green Swans Observatory’ to track and document such hopeful developments, people and movements.

The first part, ‘The Black Swan Blues’, paints a grim picture about the past, present, and near future by providing numerous anecdotes on how we as humans have changed and still change our world for the worse, focusing on the multitude of problems that underlie systems such as capitalism and democracy. And that’s exactly the effort that John and the Volans team have been engaged in for the past 18 months, bringing together a wide range of experts through the Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry to figure out where we go from here. The title of the book is derived from the reference amongst investors to unforeseen dramatic events as ‘Black Swans’. We need to work together to ensure the future in which this happens, and John Elkington's Green Swans flying together with a collaborative team of responsible, committed leaders could well be the way we achieve a regenerative economy on a global scale and a healthier, revived and refreshed populace. Bold long-term goals and vision is what catalyses breakthrough thinking, but that alone is not enough, says Elkington.

People often ask me this question and also whether the Green Swans idea is to replace one or some of them. They need to be transformed to adopt green swan characteristics and help regenerate our natural, social and economic worlds through regenerative capitalism. More likely, of course, it will produce a shifting mix of both, continuously challenging us to move the needle from black to green. There were some striking examples of like-minded approaches: People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang estimated its benchmark of what constitutes environmentally sustainable assets converged by about 80% to a separate taxonomy being produced by the European Union.

If Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swans" are problems that can take us exponentially toward breakdown, then "Green Swans" are solutions that take us exponentially toward breakthrough. for example by limiting the maturities or the amount of corporate bonds of certain sectors and issuers in the Eurosystem’s monetary policy portfolio,” he said , opens new tab.