If you would like to not see this alert again, please click the "Do not show me this again" check box belowGlobal Trends 2030 is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories over the next 15 years. We reviewed key assumptions and trends, starting with an examination of regions that was aggregated to identify broader global dynamics. Whether promise or peril prevails will turn on the choices of humankind.Every four years since 1997, the National Intelligence Council has published an unclassified strategic assessment of how key trends and uncertainties might shape the world over the next 20 years to help senior US leaders think and plan for the longer term. The NIC covers the regions of the world as well as functional topics, such as economics, security, technology, cyber, terrorism, and the environment. Global Trends represents how the NIC is thinking about the future. That is why every four years the National Intelligence Council (NIC) undertakes a major assessment of the forces and choices shaping the world before us over the next two decades. Environmental Change and Security Program.Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. It does not represent the official, coordinated view of the US Intelligence Community nor US policy. The diffusion of actors on the world stage and advances in information technology are increasing the power of “veto players” and creating echo cambers that “reinforce countless competing realities [and undermine] shared understandings of world events,” write the authors.Shocks to the global system like the Arab Spring, 2008 financial crisis, and recent rise of populist politics may be a sign of more “deep shifts” to come.There will be opportunities too, the National Intelligence Council says, including greater transparency in government processes, more voices in decision-making, cleaner energy, and better workforce education that could help people adjust to changing job markets.The societies that best weather the storm of change will be those that are most resilient, those that move “with, rather than against, historical currents” and invest in infrastructure, knowledge, and relationships.Thinking about the future is hard. Global Trends represents how the NIC is thinking about the future. All rights reserved.Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade CenterThe blog of the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security ProgramWillingness to uphold recent environmental commitments may be a litmus testPop at COP: Population and Family Planning at the UN Climate Negotiations For nearly two decades, the National Intelligence Council's Global Trends Report has been shaping strategic conversations within and beyond the U.S. government. In depth research, detailed modeling and a variety of analytical tools drawn from public, private and academic sources were employed in the production of this report. The NIC coordinates Intelligence Community support for US policy deliberations while producing papers and formal National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) on critical national security questions.The NIC Global Trends project involves extensive research and consultations with people inside the US government and around the world. Track Record of Global Trends Works. Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds. The NIC's goal is to provide policymakers with the best information: unvarnished, unbiased and without regard to whether the analytic judgments conform to current U.S. policy. Dr. Mathew J. Burrows, counselor, National Intelligence Counsel and principal author of the NIC's Global Trends 2030 report discusses "Alternative Worlds" in a series of ODNI videos. We explored the implications of various trends and discontinuities over the near term (5 years) and long term (20 years). Can we “forge new patterns of cooperation,” and how?Stop The Crime. Two years ago, writes Chairman of the National Intelligence Council Gregory Treverton, the Global Trends team began interviewing experts in and out of government around the world – 2,500 people in all, from 35 countries. Net New, The investigations done on this so called water crisis is just another way the others will try to control humanity. The incoming president’s administration will also receive another important source of analysis in shaping the foreign policy agenda—the quadrennial Global Trends report produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC).