Futerra: The Awesome Anthropocene Goals
Research report from Futerra proposing the Awesome Anthropocene Goals: 20 ambitious, 2050-oriented visions that extend and reframe the 2030 SDGs across health, energy, equality, ecosystems, infrastructure and governance. The report maps each SDG to a bold 2050 goal, compiles evidence and signals of feasibility, and offers starter actions for businesses, policymakers and individuals. It also proposes three new goals, gender/sexuality as joy, space as commons, and life-first AI, and outlines next steps for public engagement
- Slide 1: Futerra: Introducing the Awesome Anthropocene Goals
- Slide 2: Defining 'Awesome', 'Anthropocene' and 'Goal'
- Slide 3: The Awesome Anthropocene Goals
- Slide 4: Table of contents mapping sections and page numbers, including
- Slide 5: Read this first: suspend your disbelief
- Slide 6: Change happens: examples of rapid progress
- Slide 7: What are the Awesome Anthropocene Goals?
- Slide 8: Bias disclosure and invitation
- Slide 9: Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals
- Slide 10: How to use the Awesome Anthropocene Goals
- Slide 11: Introduces the report's set of future-focused goals: a curated
- Slide 12: Twenty Awesome Anthropocene Goals (overview)
- Slide 13: Method: mapping 2030 SDGs to 2050 goals
- Slide 14: A universal decent income for all
- Slide 15: Defining a universal decent income
- Slide 16: Evidence and signals that UDI is possible
- Slide 17: India: 271 million lifted from multidimensional poverty
- Slide 18: Make a start: actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 19: Food is a source of joy
- Slide 20: What we mean by food as a source of joy
- Slide 21: Evidence and signals: food system breakthroughs
- Slide 22: Evidence and signals: low-water growing and food recovery
- Slide 23: Make a start: actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 24: Ensure healthy lives and promote well‑being (SDG 3)
- Slide 25: What we mean by 'everyone expects 100 years of good health'
- Slide 26: Evidence and signals: health innovation and policy wins
- Slide 27: Make a start: health actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 28: Ensure inclusive, equitable quality education (SDG 4)
- Slide 29: What we mean by 'everyone's potential is possible'
- Slide 30: Evidence and signals: education access and learning innovations
- Slide 31: Education actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 32: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Slide 33: What we mean by ‘gender is a source of joy’
- Slide 34: The evidence and signals supporting the gender AAG
- Slide 35: Additional evidence and signals for gender progress (cont.)
- Slide 36: Start actions businesses and individuals can take on gender
- Slide 37: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation
- Slide 38: What we mean by ‘all life has a right to water’
- Slide 39: The evidence and signals that a water AAG is possible
- Slide 40: Additional water evidence and signals (cont.)
- Slide 41: Make a start: water actions for business and individuals
- Slide 42: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable energy for all (2030)
- Slide 43: What do we mean by 100 terawatts of affordable clean energy?
- Slide 44: The evidence and signals: renewable energy breakthroughs
- Slide 45: The evidence and signals: green steel and accelerating cost declines
- Slide 46: Make a start: energy actions for business and individuals
- Slide 47: Promote sustained, inclusive economic growth and decent work (SDG8)
- Slide 48: What do we mean by mission markets and meaningful work?
- Slide 49: The evidence and signals: green jobs, wage trends, and labour shifts
- Slide 50: The evidence and signals: worker organising, unionisation and safety gains
- Slide 51: Practical actions for businesses and individuals to support decent work
- Slide 52: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive industrialization and foster innovation
- Slide 53: What do we mean by ultrastructure everywhere?
- Slide 54: The Evidence and Signals
- Slide 55: The Evidence and Signals (cont.)
- Slide 56: Actions to build sustainable infrastructure for businesses and individuals
- Slide 57: Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Slide 58: What do we mean by distributive societies?
- Slide 59: The Evidence and Signals
- Slide 60: The Evidence and Signals (cont.)
- Slide 61: Make a start: actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 62: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- Slide 63: What do we mean by everyone lives in a doughnut community?
- Slide 64: The evidence and signals: urban breakthroughs
- Slide 65: Make a start: city actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 66: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Slide 67: What do we mean by consumption is regenerative?
- Slide 68: The evidence and signals: circular economy progress
- Slide 69: The evidence and signals: recycling, repair and recovery
- Slide 70: Make a start: actions for businesses and individuals (consumption)
- Slide 71: SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change
- Slide 72: What do we mean by zero degree justice?
- Slide 73: The Evidence and Signals
- Slide 74: The Evidence and Signals (cont.)
- Slide 75: Make a start: actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 76: SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use oceans and marine resources
- Slide 77: What do we mean by a renaissance below water?
- Slide 78: The Evidence and Signals
- Slide 79: The Evidence and Signals (cont.)
- Slide 80: Make a start: ocean actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 81: Protect, restore and promote sustainable terrestrial ecosystems
- Slide 82: What do we mean by half the world is wild?
- Slide 83: The Evidence and Signals
- Slide 84: The Evidence and Signals (cont.)
- Slide 85: Make a start: actions for business and individuals
- Slide 86: Human rights for the future
- Slide 87: What do we mean by human rights for the future?
- Slide 88: The Evidence and Signals
- Slide 89: The Evidence and Signals (cont.)
- Slide 90: Make a start: practical steps for business and individuals
- Slide 91: SDG 17: strengthen global partnerships and implementation
- Slide 92: What do we mean by 'Everyone optimistic'?
- Slide 93: The evidence and signals: breakthroughs that enable an AAG
- Slide 94: More evidence: SMEs, plastics treaty, and multilateral momentum
- Slide 95: Make a start: actions for businesses and individuals
- Slide 96: What's missing? Three additional Awesome Anthropocene Goals
- Slide 97: Three new AAGs: gender, space, and AI explained
- Slide 98: Logic and magic: a two-part structure of change
- Slide 99: Methodology and what's next
- Slide 100: If we want to avoid apocalypse, we need to aim for awesome
- Slide 101: Thank you: Futerra
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