The World as One from Outer Space
1. Preventing the Escalation of the Israel-Palestine/Arab issue from
becoming a wider Middle-East conflict = 82%
2. Balancing the Country Risk and Opportunity of China with India =
74%
3. Ethics, Inter-faith Dialogue & Living with Differences across
the World = 72%
4. Escalating Rhetoric and Potential Crisis with Iran over Nuclear Proliferation
and attendant Global Energy Pricing Instability = 64%
5. Climate Chaos's Impact on Rising number of Hurricanes, Typhoons,
Floods and Water shortages worldwide = 58%
6. Ongoing conflict in Iraq with Rising Islamic Sectarian issues = 54%
7. Passenger Aviation & Transportation Crisis within the Civilian
Sector with requirement for limited Military Intervention = 54%
8. Energy Security and High Volatility in the Price of Oil, Gold, US
Dollar & Euro = 54%
9. Countering Climate Chaos through the Deployment of Alternative Energy
Solutions -- Nuclear-, CNG, CHyNG, Hydrogen-, Hydro-, Wind-, Hybrid-
Power = 44%
10. Spread of Pandemics including Avian Flu and/or Biosecurity hazards
= 36%
11. Rising Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship solutions to counter
complex global challenges = 36%
12. Countering Climate Chaos through Environmental Regulation = 32%
13. Behaviour modifying advancements in Search Engines, Semantic Web
and Web 2.0 Deployment = 28%
14. Behaviour modifying advancements in Technology -- Biotechnology
with Genetics, Informatics and Nanotechnology = 26%
15. Countering Climate Chaos by shifting priority on Sustainability
ahead of Profits, & Accounting for Sustainability = 25%
16. Country Risk of a key European Union country suffering prolonged
Civil Unrest, Strikes and Paralysis = 24%
17. Countering Climate Chaos by paying heed to IPCC, UNCCC, Kyoto Protocol
warnings and directives worldwide = 22%
18. Countering Climate Chaos through Consumer Activism and Carbon Emissions
Labelling of Products = 20%
19. Major Disruptive Innovation caused by new technology such as Quantum
Computing or Cryptography = 20%
20. Rising Alignment of Philanthropy in Giving and Fiduciary Responsibility
in making Ethical Investments = 20%
mi2g takes this opportunity to thank our friends, strategic allies
and partners for helping us to evolve and to consolidate our presence
in the global risk management arena. We also thank independent supporters
and contributors to our philanthropic initiative ATCA -- The Asymmetric
Threats Contingency Alliance -- run by the
mi2g Intelligence
Unit, which conducts collective dialogue on opportunities and threats
arising from the Global Big-10 risks and opportunities. ATCA includes
members from the House of Lords, House of Commons, European Parliament,
US Congress & Senate, G10's Senior Government officials and and
over 1,500 CEOs from financial institutions, scientific corporates and
voluntary organisations as well as over 750 Professors from academic
centres of excellence worldwide. ATCA reaches over 5,000 key decision
makers from over 100 countries as of early 2007.
The Global Big-20 risks and opportunities of 2007, depend on enlightenment
and renaissance thinking to address and to begin to resolve some of
the seemingly intractable yet interlinked confrontations. As those inherent
confrontations accelerate and feed off each other's momentum they possess
the capability to damage and to disrupt the delicate global dynamic
equilibrium on a number of fronts. Faced with this unpalatable prospect
for humanity in the coming two decades or less, it is necessary to rethink
strategically, which is the main aim of the global strategic dialogue
established by
mi2g through ATCA, our disruptive innovations
as well as
The Philanthropia.
[ENDS]
We look forward to your further thoughts, observations and views.
Thank you.
Best wishes
For and on behalf of DK Matai, Chairman, mi2g
