Summary
The 15 Global Challenges provide a framework to assess the global and local prospects for humanity. Their description, with a range of views and actions to addressed each, enriched with regional views and progress assessments are updated each year, since 1996, by the Millennium Project. These versions come from The State of the Future by The Millennium Project (2024).
These videos were published on the Millennium Project YouTube channel on March 17 2025.
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Source: Millennium Project
Videos
Global Challenge 1 – Climate Change
How can sustainable development be achieved for all while addressing global climate change?
Global Challenge 2 – Clean Water
How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict?
March 17, 2025
Global Challenge 3 – Population & Resources
How can population and resources be brought into balance?
Mar 17, 2025
Global Challenge 4 – Democratization
How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes?
March 17, 2025
Global Challenge 5 – Global Foresight
How can decision-making be enhanced by integrating improved global foresight during unprecedented accelerating change?
March 17, 2025
Global Challenge 6 – Artificial Intelligence for everybody
How can global information, communications technologies, artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing work for everyone?
Global Challenge 8 – Health Issues
How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be reduced?
Global Challenge 9 – Education & Learning
How can education and learning make humanity more intelligent, knowledgeable, and wise enough to address its global challenges?
Global Challenge 10 – Peace & Conflict
How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction?
Global Challenge 11 – Status of Women
How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition? From the State of the Future 20.0 by The Millennium Project.
Global Challenge 12 – Organized Crime
How can transnational organized crime be stopped from becoming more powerful and sophisticated enterprises?
Global Challenge 13 – Energy
How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently?
Global Challenge 14 – Science & Technology
How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition?
Global Challenge 15 – Global Ethics
How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions?
