Jack Davies

The future promises to be unpredictable, complex and volatile. Yet the current NGFS (Network for Greening the Financial System) climate scenarios used to stress test investment portfolios are limited: based on unrealistic assumptions, often understating the economic damage of climate change and failing to provide a holistic view of impacts (such as risks, conflicts, migrations, … from Climate scenarios expansion project

Discover more about our three visions for the future in this short and easy-to-watch video. This collection of illustrated narratives of the mobility, energy and food systems in three future worlds – and the journey towards those worlds between 2020 and 2050 – was developed for the Deep Transitions Investors Panel in 2021. The stories … from Video: three future worlds

A transformative bundle goes beyond traditional blended finance by integrating additional strategies, such as fostering innovation in protected spaces (niche-building), disrupting dominant systems (regime destabilization), and bringing together different actors and initiatives (coupling). The Government of Catalonia is using the notion of bundles to further empower actors to integrate private investment into their coalitions, and … from Case study: Transformative bundles in Catalonia

This short blog describes the characteristics of a transformative bundle, one of four types of experiments conducted by the Deep Transitions Lab. You’ll learn what bundles are, how they differ from blended finance models and the challenges to making these a success. The authors introduce how transformative bundles can provide an innovative approach to financing … from Introducing transformative bundles

The Deep Transitions Lab and Transformative Investment are grounded in Deep Transitions theory. Deep Transitions started in 2018 as an interdisciplinary research project, combining an historical analysis of how fundamental changes unfolded in the past with a focus on the future to help redirect those crucial drivers of change into a sustainable direction. In this … from Core concepts video

This blog introduces the story behind the development of Transformative Investment for systems change. It explains the rationale for convening investors to develop and implement an approach to Transformative Investment.  This post argues that the Second Deep Transition – a radical shift towards sustainability comparable in scale to the industrial revolution – will require substantial … from Our journey towards Transformative Investment

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the third of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.    ‘When the moonshot became an earthshot’ images a future Inspired by the spirit of the 20th-century missions that put … from World 3: Earthshot

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the second of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.    ‘Do No Harm’ imagines a world characterised by a very different understanding of the relationship between our natural world … from World 2: Do no harm

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the first of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.  ‘After the frugal turn’ imagines a future in which limitless consumption as a foundational and completely irreversible principle for development … from World 1: After the frugal turn

This collection of illustrated narratives of the mobility, energy and food systems in three future worlds – and the journey towards those worlds between 2020 and 2050 – was developed for the Deep Transitions Investors Panel in 2021. The stories provide a valuable example of how anticipation and collective imagination can be used to translate … from Three Desirable Future Worlds