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In 2021, governments around the world united behind the exhortation to “build back better” from the COVID-19 crisis. But sloganeering will offer little respite for a world that has only just begun to reckon with the systemic challenges posed by recrudescent nationalism, rising debt levels, cyber warfare, new technologies, and other distinctly twenty-first-century challenges.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has set back the sustainable development agenda in countless ways. Yet by shining a spotlight on issues that can no longer be ignored, and restoring science to its proper place at the center of decision-making processes, the crisis can also spur progress toward building more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive societies. In Back to Health, created with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading experts will consider what it will take to seize this opportunity and bring all communities and societies back to health.

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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a process of deglobalization that was already underway, exposed deep disparities in the quality of governance around the world, and cast a shadow of anxiety across all societies. Even more ominously, recovering from the crisis will require a political stability, policy coherence, and international cooperation on a scale not witnessed in years.

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The Green Recovery focuses on what comes next, with an emphasis on biodiversity, energy, public investments, and financial and corporate governance. The recovery phase will bring far-reaching opportunities to accelerate the transition to renewable energies, reorient business and finance toward sustainable development, and reconsider our relationship with the planet. But it will also open a window for populists, nationalists, and others to exploit public anxieties and pursue zero-sum politics. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that averting the worst-case climate scenario will depend entirely on the actions taken (or not taken) in the 2020s. The stakes could not be higher.

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After years of growing suspicion toward the latest wave of digital technologies and the companies and governments that control them, Beyond the Techlash brings together economists, technologists, policymakers, and business leaders to consider how the lost promise of twenty-first-century innovation can be reclaimed. They do not all agree on the best path forward, but each recognizes that the next stage of the revolution must bring new forms of freedom, not new reasons to live in fear.

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As 2019 draws to a close, it is unclear whether we have reached “peak disruption,” or whether a further unraveling of political systems, economic models, and international arrangements is in the offing. Between the poles of populist/authoritarian “destruction” and liberal/reformist reconstruction, what specific forces are most likely to define the next year – and the next decade?

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Sustainability Comes of Age brings together many of the leading voices in all of the domains involved in combating climate change: economists, scientists, policymakers, bankers, business strategists, and civil-society leaders, each addressing specific facets of the challenge. What unites them is their conviction that far more must be done to address what amounts to an existential threat.

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Political backlash against globalization and new disruptive technologies evolved in 2018 into a global whiplash. In The Great Disruption, some of the world’s greatest minds explore what is driving this growing rebellion against the political, economic, and diplomatic assumptions that have shaped the international order since World War II.

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In 2017, a rage born of hope rather than despair could be glimpsed in many parts of the world. This emotional dichotomy is reflected throughout Hope Against Rage, where some of the world’s leading thinkers examine what came apart in the past year, and anticipate the forces and factors likely to define 2018.

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Some of the world’s most respected thinkers look back on the populist uprisings of 2016, and on the uncertainty that seems inevitable in 2017. In Fatal Attraction, these authors seek to explain the forces fanning this wildfire, and what can – and must – be done to contain its spread, if not extinguish it entirely.

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