On April 7, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) submitted the new report "World in Transition - A social contract for sustainability" to the German Federal Ministers Dr. Norbert Röttgen (environment) and Dr. Annette Schavan (research).

Flagship Report 2011

German Advisory Council on Global Change

• Full text: to be published in fall 2011

• Please see below for the Summary document and Press Release

In this report, the WBGU 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.