Trend · rank 186 of 250

Carbon border adjustments

More markets are charging for or setting limits on the emissions embedded in imports, which shifts export competitiveness towards nations with low-carbon production and the ability to measure and verify product emissions.

Trade & InvestmentTrade, industry & supply chainscarbontradegeoeconomics

Second pass: Carried forward from the first pass unchanged. Held by all three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
186of 250
Sensitivity
5.0rank 215
Breadth
1of 20 scenarios High or above
PageRank
27.4rank 163
Eigenvector
1.1
Betweenness
11.0
Links
12trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
14.3

Attention over three years

How much this trend is read about on Wikipedia and searched for on Google, week by week, set against the typical trend in the list so that what moves every trend at once is taken out. 100 is this trend's own three-year average. The score measures public attention, which is not the same as the strength of the force: a trend can deepen unnoticed, and a news event can lift attention for a fortnight.

Now
90
Over a year
−13%Easing
Over three years
+8%
Peak
14221 Jan 2024
Sources
Bothagreement 0.18
Coverage
5languages · 59 nations

Trailing 4-week average. 100 is this trend’s three-year average.

By language

Wikipedia reading in each language edition where the trend’s pages are read enough to measure (5 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English50%93−12%
German32%93−8%
Chinese10%75−21%
French7%91−13%
Italian1%65−42%

By country

Google search interest over the three years, as a share of each country’s searching. 100 is the nation where interest is highest. The search terms are English, which favours countries that search in English.

China

South Korea

Slovenia

Taiwan

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Belgium

Netherlands

Singapore

Denmark

Austria

Finland

Germany

100

66

63

57

56

54

49

44

42

40

35

35

The 12 highest of 59 nations with a reading.

By region and G20 member

Attention to this trend inside each place, from Google searches made in its countries and Wikipedia reading in the languages mostly read there, averaged where both exist. Each line compares the trend with its own past in that place; the lines do not compare places.

Regions

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
North AmericaGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in English98−27%−1%+42%
EuropeGoogle in 8 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian85−12%−13%−14%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Chinese93−11%+4%+2%
South AsiaGoogle in 1 country105−12%+21%+27%
Gulf and Middle EastGoogle in 1 country150−9%+112%+131%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 1 country141+9%+392%−32%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
BrazilGoogle141+9%+392%−32%
CanadaGoogle85−10%−8%−12%
FranceGoogle + Wikipedia in French86−29%−11%−9%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German84−2%−18%−20%
IndiaGoogle105−12%+21%+27%
IndonesiaGoogle123+18%+13%+31%
ItalyGoogle + Wikipedia in Italian74+2%−29%−21%
JapanGoogle60−63%+18%−28%
South KoreaGoogle68−7%−33%−15%
TürkiyeGoogle150−9%+112%+131%
United KingdomGoogle98+1%+7%+5%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English101−31%+2%+56%

Relation to each scenario

A trend relates to a scenario when it changes how likely the scenario is, how hard it lands, or is itself sharply changed by it. Each score is the median of three scores given separately by the members of the model panel.

RelationScenarioFamily
4 · HighCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗Energy, climate and resources
2 · LowA cross-regional market access compact redirects investment S12 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedCritical trade divides into rival blocs S01Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA global funding seizure reaches sovereign balance sheets S02Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA regional war closes a globally important sea route S03Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedHybrid coercion ends in an infrastructure blackout S04Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA disputed transfer of power breaks effective government S05Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAn AI deployment step causes abrupt labour displacement S08Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA cryptographic breakthrough invalidates digital trust S09Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA novel respiratory pathogen exceeds health surge capacity S10Health
0 · Not relatedA creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity S11 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA great-power agreement lowers economic security barriers S13 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA verified Middle East settlement restores access S14 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA validated farming package raises water-efficient output S16 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAI-directed research produces a reproducible discovery step S17 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA public service platform reaches inclusive operation S18 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedAffordable preventive treatments reduce chronic illness S19 ↗Health
0 · Not relatedA live outbreak proves rapid distributed pandemic defence S20 ↗Health

Similarity = 0.3 × shared tags (Jaccard) + 0.3 × likeness of scenario profiles (cosine) + 0.3 × likeness of names and descriptions (TF-IDF cosine) + 0.1 if in the same capability domain, cut into seven levels at 0.12, 0.22, 0.33, 0.45, 0.58, 0.72. Shown at Moderate and above.

SimilarityTrendThemeRank
3 · ModerateForeign investment slowdown & selectivityTrade, industry & supply chains23
3 · ModerateEconomic security policyTrade, industry & supply chains47
3 · ModerateManufacturing overcapacityTrade, industry & supply chains51
3 · ModerateShifting economic weightTrade, industry & supply chains78
3 · ModerateRare earth processing concentrationTrade, industry & supply chains102
3 · ModerateRegional trade agreement deepeningTrade, industry & supply chains105
3 · ModerateSovereign wealth & state capitalTrade, industry & supply chains108
3 · ModerateEnergy import dependenceTrade, industry & supply chains141
3 · ModerateCritical minerals supply constraintsTrade, industry & supply chains155
3 · ModerateHydrogen & low-carbon fuelsTrade, industry & supply chains212
3 · ModerateCarbon capture, utilisation & storageTrade, industry & supply chains218
3 · ModerateCarbon pricing & environmental taxesTrade, industry & supply chains229