Our recent blog looked at the emerging concept of “polycrisis” – how in a polynodal world, different problems collided, often with the effect of amplifying each other. The replacement of…
Category: Policy making
Polycrisis – The View From Davos
The New World Order Changes…. The World Economic Forum has reconvened in Davos this week, after the Covid-19 pandemic led to its postponement in 2021, and a shorter meeting in…
COP 27 – the road to disaster
As COP27 has staggered to a halt, it’s time to revise your climate change scenarios. Keeping the increase in global temperature to 1.5˚C now seems to be an unlikely outcome,…
Introducing the Sustainability Innovation Pathway Framework
Those of you who get our monthly newsletter, “Foresight and Strategy” , will have seen our announcement of the launch of our Sustainability Innovation Pathway Framework. This week’s blog is…
The UN Report 'Our Common Agenda' and Foresight – 2
In last week’s blog, we looked back at the UN Secretary-General’s Report, “Our Common Agenda”, published in September 2021 in response to a request from Member States for recommendations on…
The UN Report: Our Common Agenda and Foresight - 1
In September 2020, on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Member States asked for recommendations so that they could better respond to current and future challenges.…