List of global issues
A global issue is a matter of
Global catastrophic risks
Not all of these risks are independent, because the majority, if not all of them are a result of human activity.
- Biodiversity loss
- Climate change
- Destructive artificial intelligence
- Environmental disaster
- Nuclear holocaust
- Pandemic
- Biotechnology risk
- Molecular nanotechnology
- Societal collapse
United Nations list
The UN has listed issues that it deems to be the most pressing as of 2023[update]:[1]
As part of the
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]
- Food security
- Inclusive growth
- Future of work/unemployment
- Climate change
- Financial crisis of 2007–2008
- Future of the internet/Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Gender equality
- regulatoryframeworks
- Long-term investment/Investment strategy
- Future healthcare
Global environmental issues
No single issue can be analysed, treated, or isolated from the others.
- Overconsumption– situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem.
- Overpopulation – too many people for the planet to sustain.
- Biodiversity loss
- Deforestation
- Desertification
- Global warming/climate change
- Habitat destruction
- Holocene extinction
- Ocean acidification
- Ozone depletion
- Pollution
- waste disposal
- Water pollution
- Resource depletion
- Urban sprawl
See also
- Sustainable Development Goals – United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals
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
- ^ "Global Issues". United Nations. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
- ^ "Global Education First Initiative - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Hutt, Rosamond (21 January 2016). "What are the 10 biggest global challenges?". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/issues/global/major-global-issues-diagram-lg.jpg [bare URL image file]
- ^ Rinkesh (27 June 2014). "15 Current Environmental Problems That Our World is Facing - Conserve Energy Future".
- ^ "The World's 6 Most Pressing Environmental Issues". 22 April 2012.
- ^ "About NRDC". www.nrdc.org.
- ^ "Environmental Issues — Global Issues". 2 February 2015.
Literature
- John L. Seitz, Kristen A. Hite (2012). Global Issues (4 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-65564-1.
- Richard J. Payne (2012). Global Issues (4th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 978-0205854592.
- Michael T. Snarr, D. Neil Snarr, ed. (2012). Introducing Global Issues (5th ed.). Lynne Rienner Pub. ISBN 978-1588268457.
- Shirley A. Fedorak (2013). Global Issues: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Paperback. ISBN 978-1442605961.
- Global Education Magazine
- Global Environmental Politics
External links
- The UN's Global Issues page
- "Think Global: Learn More About Global Issues". dus.psu.edu. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- "Global issues". TED.com. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Global Issues". TakingITGlobal. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all". Global Issues. 24 September 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Global Issues Network". Global Issues Network. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "Issues of resilience, interdependence and growth affect global climate change risk". Carbon Brief. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- "A list of the most urgent global issues". 80,000 Hours. 30 April 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2018.