A think tank devoted to the socio-ecological transition

Why Pareto?

The name refers to Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), the sociologist and economist associated with the 80/20 principle: the idea that a minority of factors can produce a majority of effects. It also evokes an attention to the real, underlying mechanisms that shape social action.

For us, that idea calls for discernment in action. In the context of the socio-ecological transition, it means moving past scattered effort to identify the most structuring points of intervention — those from which it becomes possible to shift the dynamics as a whole.

The name Pareto thus expresses an attention to decisive levers, to the coherence of transformations, and to the conditions under which collective action carries real systemic reach.

The organization

What drives us

For the beauty that exists in this world.

Why

We believe in the capacity of societal actors to act, and to accelerate the socio-ecological transition.

Who

Innovators and early adopters: the people, organizations and communities who choose, among the first, to act on the systemic levers of the transition — in their settings, their communities and at different scales — and who thereby create the conditions for a majority to follow.

How

By contributing to the conditions for informed, coherent and strategic action, from a systemic and transdisciplinary approach.

What we produce

• Monitoring

  Scientific and grey literature, initiatives around the world.

• Plain-language translation

  Turning research into usable tools and analyses.

• Conceptual frameworks

  Designing frameworks that support concrete, considered and transformative action.

DistinctionProject selected for the collective climate action call of UNIC, the international student network for the climate.