Public Speaking

TED talk

This 15-minute TED talk covers Gaya's work on the imperative, but more importantly, the promise of a wellbeing economy. Recorded in Seattle on July 2024, during the Bloomberg Green Festival.

Opening keynote on limits to growth in finance

Gaya's 20-minute opening speech at the Sustainable Finance Summit, on what limits to growth and economic system's change means for the financial sector. Recorded in May 2025, in Montreal, Canada.

Keynote at Natural Capital Conference

This 19-minute keynote speech on what limits to growth tell us about a way forward was delivered to the audience of the Natural Capital Conference in London, 2023, organized by Rebalance Earth.

What would a wellbeing economy look like?

This 2-minute snippet on the imperative of an economic transformation is from a panel during COP28 on the We Don't Have Time live broadcast.

How do we get to this wellbeing economy?

Another 2-minute snippet, on how different countries will have different pathways to get to a wellbeing economy.

Deep-Dive Presentation and interview

At the Danish Democracy Festival Folkemødet, in June 2024, Gaya delivered a longer presentation and delved into the underlying narrative of our current growth based systems — and how poorly this story of humanity represents us.

publications

Books

Gaya's book about the necessity of economic systems change for true global sustainability was published in 2022. She made sure it would be freely available for download, although there is also an option to purchase a printed copy. Club of Rome member and The Limits to Growth author Jørgen Randers wrote in the foreword.

Journal Article

A peer-reviewed article in Yale's Journal of Industrial Ecology about Gaya's research on The Limits to Growth has received over 350 citations so far, and has been mentioned in media outlets around the globe.

Club of Rome paper

At the request of the Club of Rome, Gaya wrote a short paper on her research on The Limits to Growth, which is published on its website.

LECTURE VIDEOS

In English

A half-hour presentation on Gaya's research during the Global Impact Tech Alliance Master's series.
Featured by the Club of Rome, this 80-minute video includes an introduction to the Club of Rome and the MIT team that wrote The Limits to Growth, an extra long presentation by Gaya, and audience Q&A afterwards.

In Dutch

Gaya presented and engaged in discussion with local experts during an evening in the Dutch Pakhuis de Zwijger dedicated to The Limits to Growth.

With Japanese translation

This is a presentation and discussion for a conference in Japan, live translated from English to Japanese by Peter David Peterson, Director at NELIS and Professor at Shizenkan University.

With Spanish translation

This webinar is focused on the geopolitical angle of postgrowth, a light-trodden area in wellbeing economics thinking so far. English version available here, Spanish version here.

A professionally produced lecture can be viewed with a 7-day trial at:

Sustainability Unlocked

co-publications

Wellbeing Economy Reports

A joint report on the flaws in our current economic system and the vision and principles for a wellbeing economy has been published on the website of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity for consultation for the rest of 2025.

Next to Gaya, other contributors include Chief Economist at Triodos Bank Hans Stegeman and Wellbeing Economy Alliance founder Katherine Trebeck. The group was brought together by Ben Kellard of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Club of Rome Books

Gaya contributed to two books published or commissioned by the Club of Rome: Limits and Beyond and Earth For All: A Survival Guide for Humanity.

Limits and Beyond contains essays with reflections on the 50 years after The Limits to Growth was published. Other contributors next to Gaya include Mamphela Ramphele, Nora Bateson, and Hunter Lovins.

Earth For All: A Survival Guide for Humanity on the other hand looks forward to what humanity must do now to achieve and keep a world of "enough for each".

Blogs & papers

As Vice President of Sustainability Research at Schneider Electric's independent Sustainability Research Institute, Gaya writes papers using a systemic lens on issues like energy poverty, water infrastructure, and biodiversity conservation. She includes mentions of consumption corridors, sufficiency, and degrowth.

See also writes company's blogs, such as this recent one From ever-more to better.

These papers and blogs are reviewed by colleagues, which is why they're listed as co-productions.