by Omega | Feb 13, 2025 | Resilience
By exploring 25 evidence-based potential disruptions across environmental, technological, economic, social, and geopolitical domains, the Strategic Foresight Toolkit for Resilient Public Policy helps anticipate challenges and opportunities that could reshape the...
by Omega | Feb 12, 2025 | Resilience
Over years spent weaving futures thinking into real-world strategy and policy, I’ve learned that transforming the future is neither simple nor straightforward. My journey has taken me across government, civil society, and global organisations, where the stakes are...
by Omega | Feb 11, 2025 | Economy
Leonora Grcheva is the Cities and Region lead at the Doughnut Economic Action Lab (DEAL), working with people from all over the world to explore new ways of envisioning their local communities. The project draws upon the ideas of the British economist Kate Raworth,...
by Omega | Feb 10, 2025 | Worldviews
Like its 15 predecessors, this year’s Blueprint includes essays and buzzwords. What it doesn’t include is a set of predictions for the year 2025. As I outlined last year, I no longer think we have the insight to make such timedcalls. As I said then, “Our means of...
by Omega | Feb 10, 2025 | Resilience
Taking into account the intertwined nature of existential threats and the linkages between systems, our foresight work seeks to challenge the assumptions that sustain the status quo and to facilitate new discussion, new partnerships, and new action informed by a...
by Omega | Feb 7, 2025 | Resilience
In episode 222 of America Adapts, I sit down with Dr. Carolyn Kousky, a leading expert in climate risk and insurance, to explore the transformative potential of ‘Insurance for Good.’ We discuss how climate change is not only intensifying risks like...
by Omega | Feb 6, 2025 | Worldviews
Beijing has been pressuring private firms to build daycare centres, wards and other age-care infrastructure to shore up gaps left by indebted local governments. But will they continue to invest if profits are far off? Other East Asian countries such as Japan are also...
by Omega | Feb 5, 2025 | Environment
The analysis of global catastrophic events often occurs in isolation, simplifying their study. In reality, risks cascade and interact. Therefore, it is essential to consider the interconnected nature of global risks. This investigation explores the interplay between...
by Omega | Feb 4, 2025 | Environment
Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking scientists by surprise. Right now, as the bald reality of climate change...
by Omega | Feb 3, 2025 | Resilience
As we reach the midpoint of Strategy 2030, we are entering a new humanitarian era. A complex mass of emerging trends is changing the world around us and affecting our ability to act: from social and geo-political polarisation to protracted conflicts that threaten...
