Open Futures LibraryEngage with a Library of scenarios Based on the output of the Scenarios in 2030, this report highlights 11 options to better cater for the changing retirement and healthcare expectations, especially in the current time when resources are stretched. The report makes the case for an integrated response and looks at pensions and healthcare in tandem for future sustainability and suggests solutions from the opportunities rather than challenges and risks.
With this book, the IEA explores a longer time horizon using two types of
long-term scenarios: "exploratory scenarios" and "normative scenarios".
Exploratory scenarios are based on the correct identification of a few
critical uncertainty factors and are designed to explore several plausible
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Energy to 2050: Scenarios for a Sustainable Future
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Energy to 2050: Scenarios for a Sustainable Future
future configurations of the world, based on different expectations of
BP’s annual Energy Outlook contains our projections of future energy trends and factors that could affect them, based on our views of likely economic and population growth and developments in policy and technology. Together with the annual Statistical Review of World Energy, it has become a respected contribution to the global discussion on energy and I am pleased with the feedback we are receiving.
The Outlook for Energy is ExxonMobil’s long-term view of our shared energy
future. We develop the Outlook annually to assess future trends in energy supply,
demand and technology to help guide the long-term investments that underpin
our business strategy.
This year’s Outlook reveals a number of key findings about how we use energy,
how much we will need in the future and what types of fuels will meet demand.
The world economy is projected to grow at an average rate of just over 3% per annum from 2011 to 2050, doubling in size by 2032 and nearly doubling again by 2050.
China is projected to overtake the US as the largest economy by 2017 in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms and by 2027 in market exchange rate terms. India should become the third ‘global economic giant’ by 2050, a long way ahead of Brazil, which we expect to move up to 4th place ahead of Japan.
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Subject and Keywords:With an expanding population and world
economy powered by oil, coal and gas,
fossil fuels have become a large part
of our daily lives. But this has come at
a price: greenhouse gas emissions,
which adversely affect our climate.
How much higher will this price rise
before we achieve a more sustainable
energy system? The Scenarios for
Climate Change project, a research
collaboration by Swiss Re and partners
from the public and private sectors,
gives insights into what tomorrow
"Women represent just under half the global
population and are the fastest growing group
of consumers worldwide. Yet analyses of their
role in society are often one-dimensional and
linear. Usually, the examination focuses on how
social and economic conditions exert changes
on women’s roles and identities.
This paper inverts that perspective by exploring
how women act as catalysts for fundamental
changes, which are shaping not just their own
world, but everybody’s world.
We show that understanding women is
The Future Role of Civil Society project was launched in June
2012 with the desire to explore the rapidly evolving space in which
civil society actors operate. The project focuses on two central
questions:
−− What might the contextual environment for civil society look like
in 2030?
−− How might models of engagement for civil society, business,
government and international organizations evolve in these new
contexts?
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), labour leaders, faithbased
“We have chosen 40 years, i.e. to 2050, as our
timescale. This allows us to explore a number of
potential economic, social and technological
challenges and discontinuities. These
discontinuitiesmean that individualsmaymake
previously unthinkable choices about their life,
potentially creating newparadigms for the
economy and for society.”