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The World Future Council (WFC) is a German non-profit foundation with its headquarters in
Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
. 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

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Miguel Mendonça Miguel Mendonça (born August 1973, Salisbury, Rhodesia) is an Anglo-Azorean writer and musician based in Bristol, England. Education Miguel studied forestry at Sparsholt College, Landscape Management at Hadlow College, Journalism and Radio Pr ...
, 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 Earthscan is an English-language publisher of books and journals on climate change, sustainable development and environmental technology for academic, professional and general readers. History The Earthscan Publications imprint was founded by th ...
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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 ...
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 Jakob may refer to: People * Jakob (given name), including a list of people with the name * Jakob (surname), including a list of people with the name Other * Jakob (band), a New Zealand band, and the title of their 1999 EP * Max Jakob Memorial A ...
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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