Trend Trend J: Accelerating climate crisis

Summary

Rising average temperatures and sea levels from global warming are accelerating, making heatwaves, floods, wildfires and other extreme weather more frequent and deepening food security crises. Building urban resilience, smart disaster response systems and international cooperation on climate governance is becoming more important in response to climate disasters. The trend groups issues on global climate governance, increasing extreme weather disasters, social infrastructure for the climate crisis era and a deepening food security crisis. Both experts and the public ranked it as a priority, and cross-impact analysis showed high influence with low dependency, so it became one of three dominant drivers. In the issue network, the food security crisis was the most connected of all 59 issues.