{"id":7804,"date":"2026-03-08T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:24:19","slug":"global-economy-must-move-past-gdp-to-avoid-planetary-disaster-warns-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/08\/global-economy-must-move-past-gdp-to-avoid-planetary-disaster-warns-un-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has called for a radical transformation of the global economy, urging nations to move &#8220;beyond GDP&#8221; to prioritize human well-being and environmental sustainability. He argues that current accounting systems drive planetary disaster by rewarding pollution and waste while failing to value nature or social equity. To address this, a UN-tasked group of economists is developing a new &#8220;dashboard&#8221; of metrics to help governments assess progress through a lens of sustainability rather than just financial profit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 9, 2026. <strong>Summary:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/feb\/09\/global-economy-transformed-humanity-future-un-chief-antonio-guterres\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has called for a radical transformation of the global economy, urging nations to move &#8220;beyond GDP&#8221; to prioritize human well-being and environmental sustainability. He argues that current accounting systems drive planetary disaster by rewarding pollution and waste while failing to value nature or social equity. To address this, a UN-tasked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions\/7999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}