Trend · rank 138 of 250

Climate change & physical risk

Warming is making floods, heat, drought, fire and storms more frequent and severe, with possible abrupt Earth system shifts, damaging assets and changing the operating conditions of national infrastructure.

Strategic InfrastructureEnergy, networks & climate resilienceclimateresiliencenature

Second pass: Carried forward from the first pass unchanged; takes in Earth system tipping points. Held by all three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
138of 250
Sensitivity
10.8rank 85
Breadth
2of 20 scenarios High or above, 1 Critical
PageRank
30.5rank 149
Eigenvector
1.1
Betweenness
8.2
Links
11trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
19.2

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
81
Over a year
+0%Steady
Over three years
−38%
Peak
102321 Apr 2024
Sources
Bothagreement 0.25
Coverage
25languages · 65 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 (25 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English52%101+10%
French10%167+62%
Turkish5%39−64%
German5%129+26%
Vietnamese3%125+46%
Korean3%84−18%
Spanish2%116+44%
Bengali2%74−65%
Chinese2%130+58%
Italian2%155+79%
Japanese2%145+1%
Hindi2%78−26%
Russian1%99−15%
Arabic1%155+85%
Malay1%44−23%
Dutch1%126+48%
Portuguese1%154+85%
Indonesian1%115+40%
Ukrainian1%71+34%
Polish1%100−10%
Tamil1%62−47%
Hebrew0%90−12%
Swedish0%147+30%
Afrikaans0%22−80%
Swahili0%90−20%

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.

Zimbabwe

Philippines

Ethiopia

Kenya

Ghana

Jamaica

Zambia

Nepal

Uganda

New Zealand

Pakistan

South Africa

100

82

73

72

70

63

63

57

57

51

48

48

The 12 highest of 65 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 English790%+4%−28%
EuropeGoogle in 8 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish191+44%+120%+124%
ChinaGoogle in 1 country76+3%+10%−37%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 11 countries + Wikipedia in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay89+11%+0%−2%
South AsiaGoogle in 4 countries + Wikipedia in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil63−21%−46%−33%
Gulf and Middle EastGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew73−3%−17%−37%
AfricaGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Afrikaans, Swahili68−9%−25%−25%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Spanish, Portuguese123−7%+29%+58%
Russia and EurasiaGoogle in 3 countries + Wikipedia in Russian, Ukrainian99+7%−31%+4%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
ArgentinaGoogle124−3%+3%+63%
AustraliaGoogle70+45%−31%−39%
BrazilGoogle + Wikipedia in Portuguese141−10%+15%+133%
CanadaGoogle51+2%−18%−58%
ChinaGoogle76+3%+10%−37%
FranceWikipedia in French167+26%+62%+96%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German171+12%+54%+103%
IndiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil66−19%−41%−25%
IndonesiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Indonesian102+13%+16%+55%
ItalyGoogle + Wikipedia in Italian325+157%+461%+316%
JapanGoogle + Wikipedia in Japanese115+37%−8%+18%
South KoreaGoogle + Wikipedia in Korean72−6%−25%−19%
MexicoGoogle79−26%+4%−1%
RussiaWikipedia in Russian99−28%−15%+2%
Saudi ArabiaGoogle53−2%−52%−27%
South AfricaGoogle53−45%−36%−29%
TürkiyeGoogle + Wikipedia in Turkish70−16%−34%−32%
United KingdomGoogle53−18%−22%−57%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English81+1%+6%−27%

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
6 · CriticalTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
5 · Very highA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
2 · LowA validated farming package raises water-efficient output S16 ↗Energy, climate and resources
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 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 cross-regional market access compact redirects investment S12 ↗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 relatedCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗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
4 · HighDams, reservoirs & flood defenceEnergy, networks & climate resilience137
4 · HighBiodiversity & ecosystem lossFood, water & nature181
4 · HighEarly-warning coverageEnergy, networks & climate resilience204
3 · ModerateUrban population concentrationEnergy, networks & climate resilience61
3 · ModerateWater treatment & desalinationEnergy, networks & climate resilience89
3 · ModerateAgricultural soil degradationFood, water & nature148
3 · ModerateUrban cooling infrastructureEnergy, networks & climate resilience151
3 · ModerateFreshwater stress & transboundary waterFood, water & nature187
3 · ModerateResilient construction & asset adaptationEnergy, networks & climate resilience194
3 · ModerateDisaster risk financeEnergy, networks & climate resilience209
3 · ModerateClimate-related population relocationEnergy, networks & climate resilience221