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As world leaders fight over territories and power, BRICS builds alternative system SYSTEM STRESS (Risk Signals) Africa Asia Australia/NZ/Oceania Europe Latin America & Caribbean Islands North America SIGNALS: BY SECTORS Energy Food Production/Distribution Circularity in Materials/Resources= Production Connected Health: People/Planet I.C.T. & Cyber Security Transportation/Mobility Civics: Personal/Digital Democracy Smart Cities TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITY GO DEEPER Vienna: A worldwide model for city transportation US issues first national strategy for advanced air mobility sector USDOT: Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Smart Cities World – AI and Machine Learning – City of San José turns to AI to speed up public transit Air Mobility in 2026: What to Anticipate BRIEFINGS SMARTER CITIES GO DEEPER Irish government commits €35m to local climate action Smart Cities World – Trend Series – Trend Report 2025: AI for personalised government services – reimagining citizen experiences Smart Cities World – Trend Series – Trend Report 2025: AI for personalised government services – reimagining citizen experiences Smart Cities World – Trend Series – Trend report: AI for safer cities – transforming safety operations and emergency response The City where free buses changed everything Aberdeen launches ‘life event’ website for residents Urban Investment Flows: Smart City Projects Attract Global Capital The Cognitive City Blueprint: Turning Urban Data into Urban Intelligence Municipalities Invited to Apply for fully funded pilots Smart Cities World – AI and Machine Learning – City of San José turns to AI to speed up public transit Urban Investment Flows: Smart City Projects Attract Global Capital What’s EUp? Urban initiatives and LIFE at stake in the proposed EU Facility Vienna: A worldwide model for city transportation Paraisópolis, Brazil: A city aiming to be egalitarian, sustainable & accessible FOOD PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION GO DEEPER Healthy, familiar, accessible: Making alternative protein more scalable Farm Fresh redefines healthy snacking with matcha chicken nuggets Farm Fresh redefines healthy snacking with matcha chicken nuggets DEMOCRACY GO DEEPER Reinventing European democracy: a path to regeneration How the Global Majority can free itself from US financial colonialism Elevating Citizens’ Voices: Avenues for Participatory Democracy at National, Regional and Local Levels – ENoP Shrinking Civic Space in the European Union – ENoP Playbook: Designing new institutions and renewing existing ones A green transition for all: how to empower participatory governance for future-proof cities Parisian Parpicipatory Budgeting Report – Artificial intelligence in finance: how to trust a black box? EU Financial Safeguards: Scrapping them will inflate bills for ordinary citizens RE-TRAINING Closing the Green Skills Gap: Retraining Coal Engineers for Solar Era Jobs $145M in funds supporting performance-based Registered Apprenticeship expansion across key industry sectors European Solar Academy to skill 65,000 workers over the next two years DOE and DOL Announce New Effort to Support and Expand America’s Battery Workforce Battery Workforce Training Employment and Skills Policies for the Green Transition ENERGY GO DEEPER Blue Hydrogen Market to Reach $52 Billion in 2036 Europe’s environment and climate: knowledge for resilience, prosperity and sustainability | Europe’s environment 2025 (EEA) Affordable solar power to those most in need Commission opens second stage of investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation Brazil plans to build a grid of 5-megawatt microreactors World’s largest AI-powered 12.8 GWh battery storage cluster comes online in China PLANETARY HEALTH & HUMAN HEALTH GO DEEPER Europe’s environment and climate: knowledge for resilience, prosperity and sustainability | Europe’s environment 2025 (EEA) Worried about climate change? 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