UNEP Global Foresight Report 2024
These eight shifts include:
- humanity’s degradation of the natural world,
- the rapid development of technologies such as AI,
- competition for natural resources,
- widening inequalities and declining trust in institutions, creating a so-called polycrisis in which global crises are amplifying and synchronising.
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