List of global issues

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A global issue is a matter of

economic issues, and environmental issues
. Organizations that maintain or have published an official list of global issues include the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.

Global catastrophic risks

Not all of these risks are independent, because the majority, if not all of them are a result of human activity.

United Nations list

The UN has listed issues that it deems to be the most pressing as of 2023:[1]

Category Issues Relevant UN directives/initiatives
Africa poverty, diseases, desertification, malnutrition, regional conflict
New Partnership for Africa’s Development, United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur
Ageing
ageing population, demographic transition
United Nations Principles for Older Persons, Proclamation on Ageing, International Year of Older Persons
AIDS
Prevention of HIV/AIDS, HIV and pregnancy, HIV/AIDS denialism Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Atomic energy
nuclear waste
International Atomic Energy Agency, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Big data for sustainable development Applying ICTs to sustainable development supporting and tracking the Sustainable Development Goals
Child and youth safety online Fighting cyberbullying, online child abuse and human trafficking of children
Children Child poverty, Child labour, Child abuse, Child mortality, Global education
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme, Global Education First Initiative[2]
Climate change Carbon footprint of the human race, Climate change mitigation
United Nations Climate Change conference
Decolonization exploitation
International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism
Democracy democratization
OHCHR, UN Women
Disarmament
small arms
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Ending poverty Measuring poverty Sustainable Development Goal #1: No poverty
Food Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero hunger, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme
Gender equality Women's rights, global feminism Commission on the Status of Women, Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
Health maternal health, extreme poverty Millennium Development Goals
Human rights
human rights violations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International law and justice war crimes, discrimination, state-corporate crime
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (1999), Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(2006)
International migration International Organization for Migration
Oceans and the Law of the Sea (cf. Water) marine pollution, ocean governance
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter
security
United Nations peacekeeping, List of United Nations peacekeeping missions, Peacebuilding Commission
People with disabilities discrimination, lack of universal design Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Population overpopulation, world population
UNFPA
Refugees (cf. Humanitarian Assistance) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA),

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Terrorism Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism
Volunteerism
United Nations Volunteers
Water (cf. Oceans and the Law of the Sea) water scarcity, water conflict, water privatization, water pollution
International Conference on Water and the Environment (1992), Earth Summit
(1992)

As part of the

Global Goal
.

World Economic Forum List

In keeping with their economy-centered view, the World Economic Forum formulated a list of 10 most pressing points in 2016: [3]

  1. Food security
  2. Inclusive growth
  3. Future of work/unemployment
  4. Climate change
  5. Financial crisis of 2007–2008
  6. Future of the internet/Fourth Industrial Revolution
  7. Gender equality
  8. regulatory
    frameworks
  9. Long-term investment/Investment strategy
  10. Future
    healthcare

Global environmental issues

No single issue can be analysed, treated, or isolated from the others.

habitat loss and climate change adversely affect biodiversity. Deforestation and pollution are direct consequences of overpopulation and both, in turn, affect biodiversity. While overpopulation locally leads to rural flight, this is more than counterbalanced by accelerating urbanization and urban sprawl. Theories like the world-system theory and the Gaia hypothesis focus on the inter-dependency aspect of environmental and economic issues. Among the most evident environmental problems are:[5][6][7][8]

See also

for 2030

  • Antimicrobial resistance – Resistance of microbes to drugs directed against them
  • Center for Global Food Issues
  • Chicago Council on Global Affairs – Foreign affairs think tank in Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Climate change – Current rise in Earth's average temperature and its effects
  • Cybersecurity
     – Protection of computer systems from information disclosure, theft or damage
  • Developing country – Nation with a lower living standard relative to more developed countries
  • Earth Economics – U.S. non-profit organization
  • Earth system science – Scientific study of the Earth's spheres and their natural integrated systems
  • Ecological footprint – Individual's or a group's human demand on nature
  • Ecological collapse
     – Ecological communities abruptly losing biodiversity, often irreversibly
  • Ecosystem collapse – Ecological communities abruptly losing biodiversity, often irreversibly
  • Effective altruism – Philosophical and social movement
  • Energy crisis – Low availability of energy resources
  • Environmental social science
  • Financial crisis – Situation in which financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value
  • Global catastrophic risk – Potentially harmful worldwide events
  • Global Challenges Foundation – Swedish non-profit organization
  • Global change – planetary-scale changes in the Earth system
  • Global governance – Movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors
  • Global health – Health of populations in a global context
  • Global justice – Issue in political philosophy
  • Global Rights – Human rights capacity-building NGO
  • Global warming controversy
     – List of debates over global warming
  • Human impact on the environment – Impact of human life on Earth and environment
  • Human security – People-centric approach to national security
  • Intergovernmental organization
     – Organization established by treaty between governments
  • List of United Nations peacekeeping missions
  • Liu Institute for Global Issues – Esearch organization at the University of British Columbia
  • Mass surveillance – Intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population
  • Ozone depletion and climate change
  • Pandemic – Widespread, often global, epidemic of severe infectious disease
  • Peak oil – Point in time when the maximum rate of petroleum extraction is reached
  • Social justice – Concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society
  • Species extinction
     – Termination of a taxon by the death of its last member
  • Washington consensus
     – Economic policies for developing nations
  • Wicked problem – Problem that is difficult or impossible to solve
  • World Community Grid – BOINC based volunteer computing project to aid scientific research
  • WorldRiskReport – Annual cooperation report on global disaster risks
  • World-systems theory – Approach emphasizing the world-system as the primary unit of social analysis
  • World War
     – War involving major global states
  • Crime – Illegal behavior defined by existing criminal law

References

  1. ^ "Global Issues". United Nations. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Global Education First Initiative - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  3. ^ Hutt, Rosamond (21 January 2016). "What are the 10 biggest global challenges?". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  4. ^ http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/issues/global/major-global-issues-diagram-lg.jpg [bare URL image file]
  5. ^ Rinkesh (27 June 2014). "15 Current Environmental Problems That Our World is Facing - Conserve Energy Future".
  6. ^ "The World's 6 Most Pressing Environmental Issues". 22 April 2012.
  7. ^ "About NRDC". www.nrdc.org.
  8. ^ "Environmental Issues — Global Issues". 2 February 2015.

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