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The World Future Council (WFC) is a German non-profit foundation with its headquarters in
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. It works to pass on a healthy and sustainable planet with just and peaceful societies to future generations.


FuturePolicy.org

The website futurepolicy.org website presents political solutions and assists decision-makers in developing and implementing future just policies. It is an online database designed for policy-makers to simplify the sharing of existing and proven policy solutions to tackle the world's most fundamental and urgent problems. It now contains policies, for example on renewable energies, energy efficiency, sustainable cities and food production in the era of climate change, that have been promoted in WFC publications, films and hearings.


Research and publications

* Miguel Mendonça, David Jacobs and
Benjamin K. Sovacool Benjamin K. Sovacool is an American academic who is director of the Institute for Global Sustainability at Boston University as well as Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University. He was formerly Director of the Danish Center for Ene ...
(2009). ''Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-In Tariff Handbook'', Earthscan, *
Herbert Girardet Herbert Girardet (born 25 May 1943 in Essen) is a German-British writer, filmmaker, lecturer and international consultant. Life and work Herbert Girardet was born in 1943, the son of a publishing executive. After reading history at Tübingen and B ...
and Miguel Mendonça (2009). ''A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality'', Green Books, *Herbert Girardet (editor) (2008). '' Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges'', Earthscan, *Herbert Girardet (2008). ''Cities People Planet: Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World'', Wiley, *Miguel Mendonça (2007). ''Feed-in Tariffs: Accelerating the deployment of renewable energy'', Earthscan, * Jakob von Uexkull and Herbert Girardet (2005). ''Shaping our Future: Creating the World Future Council'', Green Books / World Future Council Initiative,


See also

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Futures studies Futures studies, futures research, futurism or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of exploring how people will l ...


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