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LIVE from Hong Kong, Laurence Brahm discusses how the recent G20 meeting demonstrates the need for more voices in the economic leadership group. In a one-hour interview with Bloomberg's Asia Confidential host Bernie Lo, Brahm calls for an increasing multi-polarity and better understanding of the linkages between global climate change and run-away conspicuous consumption.

LIVE from Hong Kong, Laurence Brahm discusses how the recent G20 meeting demonstrates the need for more voices in the economic leadership group. In a one-hour interview with Bloomberg's Asia Confidential host Bernie Lo, Brahm calls for an increasing multi-polarity and better understanding of the linkages between global climate change and run-away conspicuous consumption.

LIVE from Hong Kong, Laurence Brahm discusses how the recent G20 meeting demonstrates the need for more voices in the economic leadership group. In a one-hour interview with Bloomberg's Asia Confidential host Bernie Lo, Brahm calls for an increasing multi-polarity and better understanding of the linkages between global climate change and run-away conspicuous consumption.

LIVE from Hong Kong, Laurence Brahm discusses how the recent G20 meeting demonstrates the need for more voices in the economic leadership group. In a one-hour interview with Bloomberg's Asia Confidential host Bernie Lo, Brahm calls for an increasing multi-polarity and better understanding of the linkages between global climate change and run-away conspicuous consumption.

LIVE from Hong Kong, Laurence Brahm discusses how the recent G20 meeting demonstrates the need for more voices in the economic leadership group. In a one-hour interview with Bloomberg's Asia Confidential host Bernie Lo, Brahm calls for an increasing multi-polarity and better understanding of the linkages between global climate change and run-away conspicuous consumption.

LIVE from Hong Kong, Laurence Brahm discusses how the recent G20 meeting demonstrates the need for more voices in the economic leadership group. In a one-hour interview with Bloomberg's Asia Confidential host Bernie Lo, Brahm calls for an increasing multi-polarity and better understanding of the linkages between global climate change and run-away conspicuous consumption.

In this clip, Laurence Brahm introduces the importance of sustaining the traditional lifestyle of Himalayan nomads. The nomadic lifestyle is deeply intertwined with the environment, and Brahm explains why promoting nomadic traditions is an essential strategy for environmental preservation.

In this clip, Laurence Brahm focuses on the current state of the environment. With two-thirds of the world relying on Himalayan snows as a source of water, Brahm underlines the importance of saving the Himalayan glaciers from disappearing.

The Himalayan Consensus is not simply asking to restructure our global financial system. Rather, it calls for reengineering the very values and underlying assumptions driving that system.

Laurence Brahm’s experience in advising the governments of China, Laos, and Vietnam helps demonstrate how he developed the Himalayan Consensus, detailed in his latest book, The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club: Manifesto for a Peaceful Revolution. With regards to the current economic situation, Brahm outlines measures to adjust the capitalist system so that it is more sustainable. Furthermore, Brahm encourages businesses to look ahead and adapt to the changing consumer values.

Brahm shares with The Straits Times how he advocates compassionate capitalism in his new book, The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club.

Gone are the days when global financial markets were driven by rules laid down in Washington and New York, declares political activist Laurence Brahm. Brahm wants to see an overhaul of the global financial system that will take into account the interests of all trading nations.

Sonia Jarrett looks at how Laurence morphed from a successful lawyer and investment adviser, into an activist for cultural sustainable development in the Himalayas.

As the world seeks a new economic model in response to the global economic crisis, here comes a book that challenges us to re-evaluate our values and motivations as the basis to rebuild our economies for a sustainable future.

Since Wall Street's crash in Sept 2008, igniting a global depression, Washington Consensus models of economic development are discredited. The Himalayan Consensus is a response to the current global crisis. Finding acceptance from Dhaka to Islamabad, from Kathmandu to Lhasa, it is now being discussed in Beijing.