Protect the Planet: from vision to action
Markus Gohr
Networker, director Protect the Planet
Protect the Planet is an environmental NGO taking action against climate change by networking, strengthening and supporting relevant players from politics, economics and civil society.
Next Summit 2020
www.zermattsummit.org

Why another Summit?
Our current economic model has become unsustainable, it has lost its moral and political legitimacy. In the competitive market economy it has shown a continuous ability to be creative and to increase wealth. In the last decades, there has been a progressive blurring of its link with the global common good and a significant loss of our capacity to regulate it. Economics have been disconnected from
ethics and politics as financial capitalism tends to nurture a speculative race where money creates more money without sufficiently investing in the economy of goods and services useful to mankind. Destruction of the planet and its biodiversity, growing inequality and poverty, injustice, exclusion and alienation are some of the dysfunctions likely to have significant negative consequences for future generations.