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What happens to climate action when the political weather turns populist: more inward-looking, more suspicious of experts, more focused on growth and national pride than on multilateral promises? That’s no longer an abstract question. Across the West, parties and leaders with nativist or “majoritarian” instincts are either in office or within reach of it. Meanwhile, China is doubling down on renewables and exporting the kit to the rest of the world. If you work in energy, ind

The EXTRA Information Hub is a new initiative of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS).   The World Academy of Arts and...

The Resilience Action Plan , produced by the Cabinet Office, sets out the Government's strategic approach to resilience. The Chancellor...

The EU’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report focuses on resilience, dealing with the increasing levels of uncertainty in its environment.  It...

The Government Office for Science has produced an updated report on the technology mix needed in key emitting sectors to reach net zero...

Ask a minister how we’re going to pay for pensions, fund healthcare, equip the armed forces, support innovation, or build green...

Introduction It has become a fashionable provocation to assert that "China is going to win, so the question is how America is going to...

In part 1 of this blog, I looked at H.G. Wells’s novel The Shape of Things to Come , published in 1933, and examined what he got right...

Introduction   Not nearly enough attention is paid today to H.G. Wells , one of the giants of foresight. What is distinctive about his...

THE AFTERMATH In my two earlier blogs, I looked at what occurred at the Summit and the outcome document. In this third blog, I shall...

THE PROCEEDINGS AND THE IMMEDIATE REACTION In my first blog on the UN Summit of the Future I considered the outcome document: “The Pact...

THE OUTCOME DOCUMENT: “PACT FOR THE FUTURE” Introduction   In September, 2021, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, published a...