Report identifies emerging trends in development and smart ideas for tackling longer-term global challenges.
- Spotlight 2024 focusses on intergenerational equity (fairness between generations) and discusses three key areas.
Key areas under Report
- Hope for an equitable future
- Rights of nature are starting to be acknowledged in constitutions (Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia), laws and even corporate boards.
- There is growing recognition of need for alternatives to current economic models, from circular or regenerative economies, to new or post-capitalism.
- Concept of nature as an asset class is growing.
- Young people are expressing themselves, laying the foundation for a creative democracy through digital networks, use of AI etc.
- Hope for responsible technological progress
- AI has the potential to narrow development gaps in agriculture, healthcare, pollution control, education, and even augment democracy.
- Open Source AI movement has potential to democratize access to AI.
- Multilateral cooperation in space, with sufficient regard to ethics, could improve lives on Earth.
- Satellites could connect the 2.5 billion people still offline.
- AI has the potential to narrow development gaps in agriculture, healthcare, pollution control, education, and even augment democracy.
- Hope for resilient and connected communities
- Challenges to communities include persistent trauma of conflict and disaster, digital disinformation and loneliness left by Covid-19.
- Communities and start-ups are investing in social and intergenerational connections.
