Dr. Roland Kupers is an author and an advisor on Complexity, Resilience and Energy Transition. He has published several books, both fiction and non-fiction. Roland is a board member of several organisations, including the UN's International Methane Emissions Observatory.
Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT) published an interview with me on long term risk: Interview: Roland Kupers on Risk for Long-Term Investors FCLT is an initiative from large institutional investors and McKinsey, to stimulate a longer term horizon... Read Blogpost
Far from establishing – or even debating – a specific level to which to reduce inequality, politicians continue to allow it to rise. This will change only when policymakers treat inequality more like GDP growth, health care, or climate-change mitigation:... Read Blogpost
In a chapter in the 2018 WEF Global Risk report, I describe how a resilience lens can function as a risk management approach for non-standard risk. The kind of risk that emerges in complex systems, where traditional risk tools fall... Read Blogpost
The Netherlands is embarking on an effort to define a next set of climate policy targets. This editorial in the Financieel Dagblad recommends considering including a ratcheting mechanism. Ratcheting was the major innovation of the COP21 Paris agreement. Faced with... Read Blogpost
“The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust Generation Z is more interconnected than ever before – with each other and with the world. To tackle the interconnected challenges facing... Read Blogpost
Standard risk management tools generally hold the implicit assumption that risks are normalized. Indeed the usual representation of risks on a matrix showing probability on one axis against impact on the other requires the risk to be quantified in the... Read Blogpost
The Economist has written: “Farewell, left versus right. The contest that matters now is open against closed”. In other places I have written extensively about how the traditional left/right divide has ended up conflating means and ends. The great human... Read Blogpost
The Kingdom of Orange is actually not very green. The Netherlands has become an EU laggard in environmental performance. While it still benefits from its earlier reputation as an environmental innovator, it has – in fact – fallen very far... Read Blogpost
In the Huffington Post, noted education blogger Cathy Rubin publishes an interview that we did a few months ago. In it i underscore the importance for a next generation of kids to grow up being complexity-litterate. In fact working together... Read Blogpost
Methane accounts for a third of the radiative forcing that warms the world. Yet for mitigation purposes under COP21 its impact is simply translated into CO2. That is likely not the best approach. The form of governance needs to fit... Read Blogpost
