ECOLOGICAL THREATS

After the Peak: Challenges of a Shrinking World

As demographic transitions accelerate, humanity is entering a period unlike any before. The 2025 Ecological Threat Report examines how changing population dynamics intersect with ecological pressures – resource scarcity, environmental degradation, and climate vulnerability – to shape global resilience.

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ECOLOGICAL THREAT REPORT 2025

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Rising Ecological Threats in Northwestern Africa: Tunisia’s Worsening Water Crisis

The rapid escalation of water risk in Tunisia, exacerbated by ageing infrastructure and prolonged climatic shocks, has heightened the human costs.

Lighting the Path: How Off-Grid Solar Can Power 1 Billion Lives by 2030

Abhisvara Sinha (Rockefeller Foundation) and Sarah Malm (GOGLA) highlight how strategic finance and policy support could make universal energy access...

How India and Pakistan’s co-operation over water has avoided conflict 

India and Pakistan’s shared dependence on the Indus River has, for six decades, been governed by an agreement that has outlasted wars, political...

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The world’s dependency on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is increasing 

Despite its relatively small footprint in global trade, Taiwan holds an outsized role in the...

Russia’s War Economy: Growth Built on Unsustainable Foundations 

Russia’s recent economic performance appears deceptively strong, however core indicators point to...

Shifting Priorities: Europe’s Military Awakening and the Real Challenge of Defence Integration

Focusing disproportionately on military expenditure could undermine the very stability that defence...

China v United States battle for influence expanding

New hotspots are emerging in the battle for influence between super powers China and the US,...

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Rising Ecological Threats in Northwestern Africa: Tunisia’s Worsening Water Crisis

The rapid escalation of water risk in Tunisia, exacerbated by ageing infrastructure and prolonged...

How India and Pakistan’s co-operation over water has avoided conflict 

India and Pakistan’s shared dependence on the Indus River has, for six decades, been governed by...

Amazon Risks Rising from Ecological Threats
Ecological Threat Report
October 29, 2025

Amazon Risks Rising from Ecological Threats

The wider Amazon basin has become increasingly vulnerable to prolonged droughts and large-scale...

After the Peak: Challenges of a Shrinking World 
Ecological Threat Report
October 29, 2025

After the Peak: Challenges of a Shrinking World 

As global demographic momentum shifts, policy responses must be anticipatory rather than reactive,...

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Modelling the Economic Opportunity of Peace
Economics
October 31, 2025

Modelling the Economic Opportunity of Peace

The Institute for Economics & Peace’s Business and Peace Report 2024 models how nations could...

Growing without prosperity: how Africa can turn a youth boom into wealth

Africa’s growing young population has the potential to transform the continent’s economic...

Despite gains in health and education, wealth gap widens between rich and poor

A widening gulf between rich and poor countries. Progress in health and education across low-income...

Celtel and the Sierra Leone Network Launch
Economics
September 10, 2025

Celtel and the Sierra Leone Network Launch

After Sierra Leone’s civil war, rebuilding trust and connectivity was vital for peace. In 2003,...

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