- Top 15 Global Challenges for Humanity in the 21 Century – source: www.millennium-project.org
The Top 15 Global Challenges according to 2010 State of the Future – project
15 Global Challenges
1. How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change?
2. How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?
3. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance?
4. How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
5. How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives?
6. How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone?
7. How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor?
8. How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune micro-organisms be reduced?
9. How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change?
11. How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition?
13. How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?
15. How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?
Which of these Challenges are you thinking about? and are there other more important issues in your opinion? Over the next 12 months I shall look at the natural of each of these challenges to Human kind and the complex interconnected nature of each of these challenges makes them difficult to define the core problem and where to focus the solutions, as very often in complex issues the problem presented is rarely where the solution is to be found.
My feeling is any modern organisation and personal goal ought to consider these as part of one or more of these challenges as part of their mission….which one are you going to take on? to help you decide click on the links above to get more information about the 15 challenges…I am not saying do it all by yourself …if we want to achieve a bigger goal or mission then we are going to to to grow a bigger me/you!
Hi Steve,
Readers who are up for a personal challenge in 2011 may be interested in a Be The Change Action Guide which lists over 300 actions we can take as individuals to bring forth a socially just, environmentally sustainable and spiritually fulfilling human presence on earth.
For the Action Guide go to: http://bethechangeearthalliance.org/catalog/66 and be the change we wish to see in the world.
Research has also proven that our likelihood of achieving our intentions goes up from 5% to 95% when we share our intentions with others and follow-up on how we are doing. Check out the Facilitator Guide at the same site if you are interested in taking this challenge with others. Be the Change Action Circles are all over the world.
I have only one philosophy with which to face the immense challenges before us. Besides taking personal action, I believe in miracles. And I see them happening around me every day.
This is Khatia’s friend from Asheville. Asking the right questions is important, thanks for putting these out to the World. The questions raise other hard questions. Our social networks are more connected than ever. Technology is no longer such a stumbling block as it was. We have gone beyond forums and chat for social networking. How can our world culture lead the conversations around these questions and rise-up to get the work done? Political boundaries, social boundaries and organizational boundaries typically can hold us up more than help, how do we use the new tool-set and the age old principles and patterns to answer these questions?