Prospects 2021
International
Cybersecurity
As COVID vaccines drive espionage and disinformation, a coalition of democracies is emerging to tackle cybersecurity.
SDGs outlook
The pandemic crisis will reverse progress on critical social and economic sustainable development goals
COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc throughout the world in 2020, but 2021 will start seeing improvements
Climate change
Long-term carbon pledges are positive, but short-term policies will determine how plausible they are
Global supply chains
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating changes in the way that value chains are structured and how they operate
Global economy
The world economy is recovering unevenly from the deepest and broadest recession since the Second World War