The world’s biggest polluter will soon unveil a new five-year plan for its economy. Will it be business as usual or a decisive shift towards low-carbon growth?
Youthful Latinos, aging baby boomers, and women workers will feature strongly when the United States counts its people in 2010, providing a demographic blueprint for government spending and future politics.
Fiscal crises, underinvestment in infrastructure, and chronic diseases are just three of the ‘creeping risks’ that are storing up trouble for the world, warns Sheana Tambourgi, head of the World Economic Forum’s Risk Network.
The betting is that 2010 will be the hottest year on record, with a strong El Niño phenomenon and record greenhouse gas levels combining to send the mercury rising.
Allianz futurologist Professor Markku Wilenius talks about the developments that will shape the coming decade.
Laws to limit U.S. emissions would remove a massive roadblock to a global climate treaty, but American climate legislation is on a knife edge, with the U.S. Senate holding the blade.
What next for global climate talks? 2010 could see the making or the breaking of the fragile Copenhagen Accord, and the downgrading of the shaky United Nations negotiating process.
Climate change was a brutal reality for hundreds of millions of people in 2009: the Indian monsoon failed, drought afflicted the Americas, and one morning Australia woke to a vision of climate catastrophe.
With the climate conference in Copenhagen less than two months away, Pakistani climate expert Adil Najam talks about unresolved issues and explains why he thinks China will save the world.
With a deadline for a UN climate treaty imminent, 2009 could become the most important year for climate change since the Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997.
