How to Fulfil the UN Sustainability Goals

Abstract

The cumulative dissertation consists of two publications, which complement each other. The main work is a book of 356 pages published by Springer Nature, which is a complex treatise on the role and concept of money in the light of sustainability. It concludes that true sustainability requires a reform of our monetary system in the way Silvio Gesell (1949 – first publication 1916) once proposed. The key arguments are that our monetary system, as it is designed today, is completely unnatural and represents not only an obstacle to achieving true sustainable development but also to achieving genuine monetary neutrality. The so-called growth imperative as well as the ever-increasing income inequality, which is generally recognized as an indirect obstacle to sustainability, are both linked to our monetary system.