Prospects 2021

International

A poster showing six Russian GRU hackers indicted by the US Department of Justice, 19 October (Andrew Harnik/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
  • Nov 12, 2020
  • 7 min read

Cybersecurity

As COVID vaccines drive espionage and disinformation, a coalition of democracies is emerging to tackle cybersecurity.

Pupils attend class at Bulenggou Primary School in Dongxiang Autonomous County in northwest China's Gansu Province, on November 9 (Xinhua/Shutterstock)
  • Nov 13, 2020
  • 7 min read

SDGs outlook

The pandemic crisis will reverse progress on critical social and economic sustainable development goals

  • Nov 19, 2020
  • 8 min read

COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc throughout the world in 2020, but 2021 will start seeing improvements

  • Nov 25, 2020
  • 7 min read

Climate change

Long-term carbon pledges are positive, but short-term policies will determine how plausible they are

  • Nov 27, 2020
  • 7 min read

Global supply chains

The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating changes in the way that value chains are structured and how they operate

  • Dec 1, 2020
  • 13 min read

Global economy

The world economy is recovering unevenly from the deepest and broadest recession since the Second World War