The Global Business Policy Council’s annual Global Trends publication identifies emerging macro trends that will play an outsized role in shaping the global operating environment over the next five years. The trends this year cover a wide array of issues—from the great battery revolution and the transition to a cashless economy to the growing urgency to build climate-resilient infrastructure.

1. Resilience,
Replacement,
and Renewal
Global Trends
2019–2024
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2. Resilience, Replacement, and Renewal:
Global Trends 2019–2024
Five significant
trends will
dramatically
shape the global
outlook and
operating
environment.
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Going cashless
Great battery
revolution
Global reskilling race
Rise of climate-resilient
infrastructure
The loneliness epidemic

3. Going cashless:
The world may see
the first truly cashless
economies within
the next five years.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

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Resilience, Replacement, and Renewal:
Global Trends 2019–2024
The global economy
is increasingly
powered by digital
transactions.

5. Great battery
revolution: The
decarbonization
of the global
power sector
is under way,
accelerated by
battery storage.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

6. Grid-scale battery
storage, paired with
increasingly
competitive wind
and solar, is
out-competing
fossil fuels.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

7. Global reskilling race:
Governments and
companies are racing
to reskill workers to
meet the demands of
the Fourth Industrial
Revolution.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

8. Reskilling to maintain
a high-skilled
workforce will be
crucial to ensuring
economies remain
competitive.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

9. Rise of climate-resilient
infrastructure:
The disruptive impacts
of extreme weather
events on commerce
and communities
are growing.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

10. The need to build
climate-resilient
infrastructure is
therefore fueling
a new global wave
of investments.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

11. The loneliness
epidemic: Despite
rising levels of digital
connectivity, an
epidemic of loneliness
is sweeping the world.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

12. This loneliness
epidemic has negative
implications for
business and labor
productivity as well
as for the mental and
physical well-being
of citizens.
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Global Trends 2019–2024

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