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Decarbonisation in a Populist Age
This blog is the third in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together foresight, financial forecasting and technology readiness levels to understand where companies, industries, and countries can best decarbonise. In the first two blogs, we argued that net zero has been absorbed into realpolitik and defence strategy. Climate action survives because it now
Dec 18, 20257 min read
“The need for multiple scenario planning.” Covid-19 inquiry – Module 2 – emergency decision making
Baroness Hallett has recently published two reports ( Vol 1 and Vol 2 ) on emergency decision-making across the four UK governments during the Covid-19 pandemic. This follows on from Module 1 which we reported on in two previous posts ( UK Covid-19 Inquiry – Report on Module 1 and UK Covid-19 Inquiry – Report on Module 1 ). Her report highlights the need for multiple scenario planning: which should be up-to-date and adaptable. In this blog, we describe the reports outcomes
Dec 11, 20255 min read
Resilience 2.0: Empowering the EU to Thrive amid Turbulence and Uncertainty
The EU’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report focuses on resilience, dealing with the increasing levels of uncertainty in its environment. It...
Sep 24, 20255 min read
Net Zero Technology Outlook
The Government Office for Science has produced an updated report on the technology mix needed in key emitting sectors to reach net zero...
Sep 12, 20254 min read
Why Growth? Between Necessity and Reckoning
Ask a minister how we’re going to pay for pensions, fund healthcare, equip the armed forces, support innovation, or build green...
Jul 17, 20255 min read
America or China - Who Starts Losing First?
Introduction It has become a fashionable provocation to assert that "China is going to win, so the question is how America is going to...
Jul 9, 20255 min read
The Shape of Things to Come – Today Part 2
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...
Jun 25, 20254 min read
Futures Practice in an Age of AI – Beyond Prediction to Engagement
This is an edited version of the presentation which Jonathan Blanchard Smith delivered to the Futures4Europe Conference 2025, held in...
May 22, 20254 min read
Beyond Scenarios: Five Ways AI Is Reshaping Strategic Foresight
Most of us who think about the future—professionally, strategically, or just out of curiosity—have probably tried asking ChatGPT to...
May 15, 20255 min read
No solid place to stand – futures thinking in times of increasing uncertainty
For the past many years, future and foresight practitioners have been able to base their work on ground that is stable enough to support...
Mar 13, 20254 min read
Opportunities, risks and feedback loops
A tool which futurists often want to introduce into any comprehensive futures study is some form of feedback loop – run the outputs of...
Feb 5, 20254 min read
The Strategic Operating Environment in Finland
As the first step in their annual Report on the Future, the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office has published its view of the “ Strategic...
Dec 19, 20246 min read
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