Who actually sets the rules?

To enable prosperity and innovation within the planetary boundaries, we need to re-evaluate the current system. At Sweden’s Innovation Riksdag 2026, we invited people to discuss the decisions that will shape the future – much of which is about economics.

This can be complex, but through the interactive DearEconomy, we got a real sense of the future consequences if we continue to innovate based on today’s economic system.

“We have to turn it around and start from what resources our planet actually has, otherwise the system will do it for us.”

Major consequences include rising sea levels, as presented by Professor Benjamin Horton, City University of Hong Kong. It is a critical situation and he emphasised that we need to act now.

Stefan Krook, serial entrepreneur and founder of Kivra, continued with a focus on what we can actually do now. If we change the economic system towards a “Laghum Economy” – his proposal to promote a habitable planet and call to rethink the rules of the market – we can steer the industry towards needing, and wanting, to move towards more sustainable solutions and innovate accordingly.

The work continues, together we can make a difference!