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WHAT'S NEXT?: The world is depleting its natural resources at an alarming rate due to population growth and over consumption. Increased competition for ever-diminishing food and water resources may amplify socio-economically motivated armed conflicts and causing quests for more efficient resources on and beyond Planet Earth.

• With increasing regional turbulence, the United States and Europe will face mounting pressure to take actions geared towards restabilization, complicating their ability to devote resources to other ongoing challenges such as the war in Ukraine. Podtail
• By transitioning to a circular economy, where Ontario increasingly reuses and recycles the resources it already has, we have the opportunity to be leaders of a global movement toward a more sustainable model with significant economic, social and environmental benefits. Ontario.ca
• Taking action to foster a supportive business environment for companies that use recovered resources in Ontario will help drive additional recycling, create more jobs, reduce greenhouse gases and extend the life of existing landfills. Ontario.ca
• Economic policies that foster and sustain growth, facilitate inclusive development, and contribute to the generation of resources to power investments will be adopted towards making India a developed country by 2047. Daily Pioneer
• The Government of Canada is committed to helping people in Canada improve their health and get the resources they need to reduce their risk of heart disease and other cardiac conditions. DayFR Euro
• The increase in resources will underpin Sigma's plan to eventually expand its Brazilian project to a capacity of 104,200 tons of lithium carbonate equivalent. Mining Weekly
• In the next 10 years, the top four risks - extreme weather events, critical change to the Earth system, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse and natural resource shortages - are all environmental. INSEAD Knowledge
• Despite challenges such as reliance on fossil fuels and energy costs, Spain possesses abundant renewable resources, presenting a significant opportunity to attract industries, generate employment, and add value while transitioning towards carbon-free energy. SolarQuarter
• NAIRR Secure, which will be co-led by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Energy, will enable AI research with privacy requirements, compiling privacy-preserving resources. Govtech
• The Arctic will be explored for its resources in coming decades, especially because we can not decouple from oil and gas overnight, and Norway will benefit from the proximity of arctic resources to its country. Predict
• The energy sector, with its abundant renewable resources, offers substantial opportunities for US institutional investment to enable Africa's transition into a green energy powerhouse. Yahoo Finance
• The top four most severe risks over the next 10 years are extreme weather events, critical change to Earth systems, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, and natural resource shortages. Insurance Journal
• NAIRR Secure, co-led by NIH and DOE, will enable AI research requiring privacy and security-preserving resources and will assemble exemplar privacy preserving resources. insideHPC
• Threat actors will need to be sophisticated enough to gain access to quality training data, significant expertise (in both AI and cyber), and resources before they can take advantage of generative AI, which the NCSC said is not likely to occur until 2025. TechRepublic
• Although most migration is intraregional, migratory flows toward Europe will increase steadily at potentially unsustainable levels if climate change continues to affect basic resources such as water and food security. IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement
• First Phosphate has been actively involved in the development of Quebec igneous phosphate resources and applauds Quebec's acknowledgement of the tremendous opportunity that its local phosphate resources represent for the electrification needs of North America. Yahoo Finance
• The experts polled were unanimous in listing climate related issues will be the four most important risks in ten years' time - from extreme weather, to critical change of Earth's systems, to the collapse of ecosystems and shortages of natural resources. Consultancy.uk
• We predict that, by 2027, threatened by water scarcity and extreme weather, 40% of large cities will have digital twins of their water resources to manage water supply, quality, resilience and behavioural change (IDC Smart Cities and Communities 2023 Futurescape). International Data Corporation Europe
• Africa has everything the rest of the world is missing right now, from vast untapped natural resources to a pool of emerging economic opportunities and a healthy young workforce that can drive economic growth. How we made it in Africa
• AI will optimise resource allocation, improve healthcare outcomes, and enhance productivity, making it a powerful tool for addressing global challenges. Lovin Malta
• Western Europeans and Americans viewed Africa, Asia and South America as rich with opportunities to exploit resources, labour and markets for the profit of their ever-expansive economic systems. CounterPunch.org
• The primary reason threat actors are targeting compute resources is to help improve search engine optimization rankings using traffic that is generated without permission using infrastructure resources they do not have to pay to access. Container Journal

Last updated: 07 February 2024