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Foresight Briefs highlight a hotspot of environmental change, feature an emerging science topic, or discuss a contemporary environmental issue. They provide a systematic way of examining possible alternative futures and outcomes of emerging environmental issues that can support strategy and policy and also inform decision-making today. UNEP's Foresight Briefs aim to present emerging issues, systemic insights and possible policy solutions on a wide range of topics related to our environment in a short readable publication.' 

Recently Published Foresight Briefs

The 30th Edition of the Foresight Brief considers the environmental impact of the increasing use of charcoal as a source of energy and in metallurgical applications.

Charcoal as a global commodity: is it sustainable?

30 / 30

Plastics in agriculture - an environmental challenge

29 / 30

The shrinking Arctic Sea Ice

28 / 30

The growing footprint of digitalisation

27 / 30

People's livelihood and cities -
building back greener

26 / 30

Working with plants, soils, and water

25 / 30

“Sargassum: Brown tide or golden jewel?”

24 / 30

Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Challenges

23 / 30

Desert locusts’ upsurges: A harbinger of emerging climate change-induced crises? Arabic

22 / 30

The need to eliminate lead paint globall

21 / 30

Food loss and waste in the
Sustainable Development Goals’ nexus

20 / 30

Blockchain technology and environmental sustainability Chinese | Spanish

19 / 30

Unveiling plastic pollution in oceans

18 / 30

Challenges for the growth of the electric vehicle market Chinese | Spanish

17 / 30

Seagrasses, the forgotten ecosystems

16 / 30

Growing popularity of alternate food systems for environment and health

15 / 30

Building a digital ecosystem for the planet

14 / 30

Putting Carbon back where it belongs - the potential of carbon sequestration in the soil

13 / 30

Environment, climate change and security

12 / 30

We are losing the Little things that run the world

11 / 30

Alternatives for the use of glyphosate

10 / 30

Revisiting ocean acidification, food security and our earth system

9 / 30

Faith for earth

8 / 30

Smoke-haze: A transboundary air pollution issue in Southeast Asia

7 / 30

Hacking economics for people and planet

6 / 30

Emerging sponge cities

5 / 30

Lake Urmia: Signs of recovery

4 / 30

The Changing Aral Sea

3 / 30

Marine plastics litter and microplastics

2 / 30

Saving Lake Faguibine

1 / 30

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