ABOUT US

So What's The Problem?

Despite this wonderful progress, today one billion of the earth's seven billion people still live in avoidable extreme poverty in a world where humanity's resource consumption is already outstripping the capacity of many of the earth's ecological systems.

And here's the rub. Within a single generation – by 2050 - the earth will be inhabited by an additional two billion people, most of who will be born into poverty.

This is the unprecedented sustainability challenge facing our generation: How to achieve a social floor by providing three billion people with the opportunities to lift themselves out of poverty, without breaking the earth's environmental ceiling in an increasingly resource constrained world.

The scale of the challenge of avoiding a collision between the ecological systems that sustain life and the economic systems that sustain wealth is unprecedented. But so is the prize: A sustainable future in which everyone realizes their basic rights and benefits from the creation and distribution of wealth.

Achieving this prize will take all the innovation, ingenuity, co-operation and political will that humankind can muster.

And this is why People and Planet Group exists.

All of us - governments, corporations, NGO's and communities - are all in unchartered waters.

At People & Planet Group we support and bring together institutions, governments, companies, NGO's and communities to understand the scale of the sustainability challenge our generation faces, and to help our clients develop integrated strategies and outcomes which are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.