Our second global driver of change has, for a long time, been Geo-politics. In our definition this includes a move towards a “polymodal world” – changing balances of global power…
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Drivers of Change 2022 – Population Dynamics
SAMI continually monitors emerging events and tracks them against our standard set of 6 major drivers of change. Many events simply reinforce or confirm our previous view, but some may…
Forecasts and their failings
Imagine you are driving a car. I tell you that if you continue driving the car in the same direction for a long time, at some stage you will drive…
Nature Conservation - some foresight considerations
The natural world is afflicted by a wide range of pressures, mostly man-made, from climate change to poaching. Encroachment on wild spaces by human developments has many impacts and finding…
Ensuring the food security of the UK
In June, our Director and Fellow Jonathan Blanchard Smith gave evidence to the UK Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Business in a Pandemic (Covid) World. The hearing focussed on food…
Climate change mitigation
The IPCC Working Group 3 report, published in June 2022, is a definitive base case analysis of the position on climate change. It makes a clarion call for action NOW…