Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Climate change and its consequences (rising sea levels, desertification, reduced biodiversity, impacting food and water availability)
• Demographic change (aging populations in developed nations, rapid population growth in developing nations)
• Technological advancements (new security risks)
• Industrialization of the developing world (resource and environmental challenges)
• Rise of individualism and disconnection from governing structures
• Growth of cities (pressure on resources and infrastructure, vulnerability to flooding)
• Water stress (3.9 billion people projected to suffer shortages by 2045)
• Food shortages (demand potentially outstripping supply)
• Global inequality
• Corruption
• Climate change impacts on agriculture and fisheries
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Obesity epidemic and rise in non-communicable diseases

Mitigation Strategies

• New technologies (potential solutions to some environmental problems, improvements in medicine and health)
• International cooperation (managing water stress)
• Sustainable water management practices
• Advances in water desalinisation technology
• Reducing water waste
• Improved water utility
• Improvements in waste treatment and purification technologies
• Technological improvements, GM crops, improved agricultural techniques (maximising yields)
• Genetically modified crops, laboratory-cultured meat (increasing food productivity)
• Closing existing productivity gaps
• Developing new measures to maximise yields
• Carbon capture and storage (reducing climate change)
• Flood defences, altering agricultural practices, water conservation measures (adapting to climate change)
• Alternatives to antibiotics (vaccines, metals, viral agents)
• Global standards for sharing medical information
• Portable medical devices linked to medical networks
• Personalised medicine (tailor-made medicines)
• Regenerative medicine (in-situ repair and regeneration of damaged tissue)
• More efficient engines, fuel cells (improving transport efficiency)
• Automation (increasing traffic density and speed)
• Seamless transport (reducing travel time)
• Unmanned systems (mass delivery of goods)
• New developments in super-sonic flight (faster travel)
• Additive manufacturing (on-demand production)
• Improved inventory management
• Lighter-than-air vehicles (transporting material over difficult terrain)
• Consistent attempts to curtail corrupt practices (national governments, international institutions, private sector, non-state actors)
• Technology (combating corruption)
• Transparency and regulations in lobbying
• Reforms in police and judiciaries
• Foreign direct investment (alternative to aid)

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Extreme weather events (flooding, droughts, heatwaves)
• Rising sea levels
• Desertification

Opportunities

• Opening up of shipping routes in the Arctic
• New areas for extracting minerals and hydrocarbons in the Arctic
• New areas for agriculture in high latitudes