In 2025, the Ministry for the Future, a powerful global organization advocating for the rights of the generations to come, convinces bankers and economists to introduce wide-ranging policies that finally reverse the effects of the devastating climate crisis and bring about a fairer, cleaner global economy.
If that sounds like science fiction, that’s because it is: this is the plot of Kim Stanley Robinson’s influential novel The Ministry for the Future, which imagines such a body being established as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
But maybe it’s not as outlandish as it might seem: this September, at UN Headquarters, the fate of future generations will take centre stage during the Summit of the Future, a landmar