GTFS: Global Trends and Future Scenarios Index

The World in 2025: Rising Asia and Socio-ecological Transition

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The World in 2025” first underlines the major future trends: geopolitical transformations in terms of population, economic development, international trade or poverty. Secondly, it elucidates the tensions: natural resources (food, energy, water and minerals), migrations or urbanization. Lastly, transitional pathways have been drawn: towards a new production and consumption model, towards new rural-urban dynamics, towards a new gender and intergenerational balance.