The Earth4All Argentina Report presents an integrated approach to addressing poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation through 2050. Based on system dynamics modeling, it identifies pathways to reduce poverty and strengthen Argentina’s long-term resilience.
More than 50 years after the publication of The Limits to Growth—the landmark report by the Club of Rome that warned about the tensions between economic development and the planet’s finite capacity—the global Earth4All initiative builds on this systemic perspective and updates it with a strong focus on action. Earth4All brings together economists, scientists, and experts from diverse disciplines and has developed a simulation model that explores how different policy choices can lead to different development pathways.
Within this framework, Earth4All: Argentina, developed by the Argentine Chapter of the Club of Rome in partnership with Fundación Alimentaris, adapts the global model to the national context and examines how different public policy decisions could shape Argentina’s development through 2050.
The study is part of the National Engagement Programmes (NEPs), which seek to translate Earth4All’s principles into local realities through participatory research and systems modeling. In Argentina, the report was developed throughout 2025 with the participation of experts and stakeholders from a wide range of sectors.
Using a system dynamics model, the study explores alternative future scenarios and demonstrates that development trajectories largely depend on the degree of coordination between economic, social, and environmental policies.
Among the scenarios analyzed, the “Giant Leap” scenario outlines a coordinated package of transformations that, if implemented simultaneously, could sustainably improve social indicators, strengthen environmental resilience, and expand long-term economic opportunities. In contrast, scenarios based on isolated or poorly coordinated interventions tend to reproduce structural dynamics that limit long-term progress.
“The main contribution of this study is to show that Argentina’s challenges are deeply interconnected, meaning that isolated policies rarely produce lasting results,” said Gonzalo del Castillo, Executive Director of the Argentine Chapter of the Club of Rome. “Earth4All: Argentina provides what we call a systemic compass, helping us understand how decisions interact and identify strategies capable of generating broader and more sustainable impacts, both today and in the future.”
“One of the report’s greatest contributions is that—against the current trend—it keeps the conversation open and addresses complex structural challenges through dialogue,” said Joaquín Gonzalez Cosiorovski, Environment Director at Fundación Alimentaris. “Addressing complex problems requires spaces for exchange where evidence, experience, and diverse perspectives can be integrated into sustainable solutions.”
The report examines four possible development pathways through 2050, ranging from business-as-usual scenarios to more transformative alternatives. Across all scenarios, the findings reinforce the importance of addressing key dimensions—including food systems, energy, social equity, and productive development—in an integrated manner.
In this sense, the report combines evidence, systems modeling, and stakeholder participation to support the design of long-term strategies aimed at fostering balanced and sustainable development.
“Earth4All was created to explore how humanity can achieve wellbeing for all within the limits of our planet,” said Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Executive Chair of Earth4All. “The Argentina report demonstrates how this global framework can be applied at the national level, showing that systems thinking and coordinated policies can create pathways toward stability, prosperity, and sustainability—not only for Argentina, but for the world.”
Read the full report here.
