To protect the planet, we have to act for the long-term.
How can we do that? A stitch in time? is our guide to thinking about the future differently.
What does this look like in practice? We worked with MetroPolis and the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University to develop recommendations for organisations, policymakers, and society to think differently about the future.
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