Foresight in the media

There is an increasing interest in foresight in the last years. Here you find the actual trend in the number of searches for “foresight report” and “futurology”, on Google search interface, published at Google insights. Data is available from 2004. The graph shows that futurology searches are decreasing and foresight searches are increasing, for the time beeing. We use “foresight report” instead of “forsight” as we found out that “foresight report” search results are much more specific to our subject than general foresight search results.

Foresight News


  • Climate Change Displacement: Those Who Cannot Leave Need Our Help, Says Sir ...
    Huffington Post
    Analysis in the Foresight report shows that in certain scenarios to 2060, around 190 million more people will be living in low-elevation coastal cities in Africa and Asia where the threat of flooding is very real. Part of the reason is that people move ...

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  • Gov't challenged on farming policies
    Farming UK
    ... for farmers and growers to meet the massive food production challenge set by last year's Foresight report it was time for all government and EU policy, across all departments, and in all countries, to be looked at through a food security lens.

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  • UNEP publishes two studies in the run up to Rio+20
    Chemical Watch (subscription)
    Gearing up for the Rio+20 meeting in June, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) has published two reports: The Fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) Summary for Policy Makers and the Foresight Report. The full GEO-5 report, to be published on 6 June ...


  • Gigiri hosts environmental forum
    The Standard
    The Foresight Report — the results of a consultative process involving over 400 scientists — will rank 21 priority emerging issues for the 21st Century; all of which experts say require action in the next one to three years. The emerging issues range ...

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  • Daily Mail

  • Population is 'our biggest challenge' says government chief scientist Sir John ...
    The Ecologist
    Much of the population increase in Africa and Asia will see more people living in and migrating to areas of environmental risk, such as coastal cities, said Beddington, which as the recent Foresight report on Migration and Environmental Change points ...


  • Daily Mail

  • Norfolk Eastern Daily Press

  • Jon Parker sticks with his early nitrogen strategy
    FarmersWeekly
    I have been thinking back to a year ago when the Foresight Report was published and the biggest thing that struck me at the time was the level of food waste. A year on and the waste is still there, but increasing production is the key theme from all ...


  • Lords debate EUC Report: Agriculture
    DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
    It is almost exactly a year since the Government Office for Science published the Foresight report on global food and farming futures. I was pleased to chair a seminar here in the Palace last February at which Sir John Beddington, the Government Chief ...

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