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The Age of Sustainalism:

the new socio-economic

growth model for an

inclusive 21st century

By Harry Verhaar, Head of Global Public and Government Affairs, Philips Lighting

It is becoming ever more clear that the major global trends which are having the greatest impact
on the world around us are not only increasingly intertwined, but are also becoming ever broader
in their impact, affecting a greater number of regions and citizens.

Global hunger is on the increase, for the first time in over a factors that undermine food security and nutrition. Securing
decade. According to the annual United Nations report on peaceful and inclusive societies is a necessary condition to
world food security and nutrition, this increase is primarily that end.”
due to climate-related shocks and the growth in the number
of violent conflicts. The report also points to concern at The impact of climate change has thus far been most
the number of overweight children and obese adults, with keenly felt by the citizens in the developing world. However,
changes in dietary habits and economic slowdowns cited this year’s intense and destructive hurricanes, which tore
as some of the drivers of these trends. The authors of the through the Caribbean and then hit the southern USA,
report state that the world will not “end hunger and all suggest that even the wealthiest country on the planet is not
forms of malnutrition by 2030 unless we address all the immune to the consequences of a changing climate.

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