DTE Coverage: Trends for 2025

DTE Coverage: Trends for 2025

Deep dive into the trends and technologies that will shape the world caught in an unprecedented polycrisis this year

1. Trends for 2025: Evolution with AI

Trends for 2025: Evolution with AI
Source: Statista Illustration: Yogendra Anand

From scientific acclaim to ethical alarm, 2025 could define the future of artificial intelligence

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2. Trends for 2025: Immigration and depopulation

Trends for 2025: Immigration and depopulation
Source: World Population Prospects 2022, UN (Illustrations: Yogendra Anand)

In 2025, Donald Trump’s second inauguration as the US President and deliberations in Europe may result in brutal action for immigration control

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3. Trends for 2025: New pathogens lurking

Trends for 2025: New pathogens lurking
The year 2024 has also been marked by outbreaks of re-emerging and zoonotic diseases such as cholera, mpox, marburg and oropouche fever.iStock

Climate change accelerates spillover, with fatalities projected to be 12 times higher by 2050 than in 2020

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4. Trends for 2025: Bustling space bazaar

Trends for 2025: Bustling space bazaar
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From Starlink's mega-constellation to India's mission to Venus, the space sector is set for exponential growth in 2025, with private players dominating the $1.8 trillion space economy

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5. Trends for 2025: Burden of poverty

Trends for 2025: Burden of poverty
Source: World Bank (Illustrations: Yogendra Anand)

More than half of low-income countries are facing debt distress. This will likely peak in 2025

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6. Trends for 2025: Our last chance

Trends for 2025: Our last chance
Illustration: Yogendra Anand

The planet would continue to get hotter and the climate more dangerous unless countries raise commitments to reduce emissions in their latest NDCs that need to be updated by February 2025

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7. Trends for 2025: Treat of the treaties

Trends for 2025: Treat of the treaties
Source: Sustainable Development Report 2024, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (Illustrations: Yogendra Anand)

Conflicts, climate change and growing inequalities challenge global stability, even as some landmark treaties and agreements on health, plastics, chemicals biodiversity and marine conservation are expected to be finalised this year

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8. Trends for 2025: On the horizon

Trends for 2025: On the horizon
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The world has over 100 targets to meet by 2030, and the progress made by countries in 2025 and beyond will enhance the chances of achieving them

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