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Author: Future Agenda | https://www.futureagenda.org
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Our foresight programmes generate insights and views of the future, that can be used to provoke discussion, response, thought and innovation.
Climate change can no longer be ignored. While many are now looking at improving the resilience of their facilities to more extreme weather, how many will also seek to adapt to the new world of 4C of global warming?
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/the-climate-change-challenge/
A key question for the next decade will be whether we will be able to achieve true global agreements, or will bilateral trade agreements remain the way by which nations can better manage and control economic influence?
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/global-vs-bilateral-agreements/
Non-state actors, that have no stake in the waterways, are more likely to disrupt them. More prosaically, roadside checkpoints cause delays but in addition they are often collection points for bribes and “safety money”.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/bribery-and-corruption/
Cyberspace is about to undergo yet another massive change as the Internet of Things connects billions of new devices making cyber-crime even more challenging to prevent and control.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/rising-cyber-crime/
Autonomous and driverless trucks are now starting to have impact. The vision of long-distance platoons of trucks all running on intelligent highways without drivers has been a topic for some years… but the reality is not far away.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/automated-trucks/
As legacy institutions become irrelevant, in order for trade to flourish, there is a need for new forms of social interaction and ability to communicate across cultures. This emerges around new, high growth trading routes.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/new-trade-dialogue/
The benefits to be gained from bringing the same level of efficiency to the last mile as there is to the first thousand is attracting attention: There will be more focus on reducing inefficiencies around the final part of delivery.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/last-mile-efficiency/
Civil society and changing business norms challenge the calcified, outpaced and increasingly irrelevant state, government and global institutions. The digital, open source, IP sharing economy plays by different rules and agreements.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/the-fall-of-traditional-trade-institutions/
The parallel, underground economy grows as an alternative to the formal economy. It is driven both by those who do not wish to meet standards, regulation and ethical criteria, and those who cannot afford to.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/two-tier-trade/
There is an end to the equilibrium with increasing regional volatility and instability. Power, migrants and trade move to those states best able to build adaptive capacity, functional redundancy and resist protectionist pressures.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/instability-conflict-and-event-risk/
Better data management, farmer education and genetics combine to enable more food to be produced from the same land. Previous net food-importing nations become self-sufficient and some become net exporters.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/importers-to-exporters/
Cities are more important than countries and increasingly set the standards as cultural connections predominate over national identities and urban markets group around common issues.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/cities-not-countries/
