Global Scenarios for the Century Ahead: Searching for Sustainability

This report explores the challenge of sustainability by considering four different scenarios that may emerge in the future: Market Forces (in which policy prioritizes economic growth and free trade), Policy Reform (which assumes a large-scale implementation of reform policies aimed at meeting sustainability objectives), Fortress Work (where powerful global actors seek an authoritarian path), and Great Transition (in which citizens drive fundamental change towards a sustainable and livable future). Readers can draw on these future scenarios to guide policy strategies, institutional change, and their human values and choices in the present.