Now published: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation

Systemic challenges — The loops and patters that the interaction of these transition factors point you to are the systemic challenges. These are the places where the system is deeply “stuck”. They are deep-rooted, persistent and interconnected. They are critical for capital holders to address in order to support system transformation. And critical

This moves us beyond a classical and mechanistic search for leverage points to transform systems. Instead, it suggests that we are the leverage points, and that how we show up in every moment matters.

PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM

(in increasing order of effectiveness)

12. Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards).


13. The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows.


14. The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age structures).


15. The lengths of delays, relative to the