The UNHCR's yearly Global Trends report concludes that by the end of 2018, a record number of 70.8 million persons were forcibly displaced worldwide – among them...
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"Self-healing smartphones, asteroid mining for essential minerals and telepathic brain-to-brain communication enabled by technology" are some examples of the breakthrough innovations presented in the foresight study "100...
EU is developing 8 supercomputers to be operational at mid-2020. They will be hosted at eight centres across the EU. Three of them, precursor to exascale machines...
Earth Overshoot Day is advancing each year; in 2019, it falls on July 29th. Humanity is now using nature 1.75 times as fast as the planet’s ecosystems...
Automation and AI are accelerating the demand for technological skills over the next 10-15 years, while the need for basic cognitive skills, and physical and manual skills will...
CO2 emissions continue to be on the rise. NOAA reported that on May 12, 2019 CO2 concentrations reached a record 415.27 parts per million (ppm), higher than at any...
In 2019, EU's Overshoot Day was on 10 May, meaning that if all humanity would live like EU residents, nature’s annual budget would have...
World food production should increase by 50% by 2050 compared to 2012.
Extreme poverty rate has declined from 36% in 1990 to an estimated 8.6% in 2018. Nevertheless, given the recent slower rates of decline, the target of less than 3% of the world...
In 2018, the share of world GDP (PPP) of the G7 countries decreased to just under 30%, while that of emerging markets and developing economis reached 60%, a trend that is expected...