Liste globaler Probleme

This is a list of global issues that will, sometime into the future, affect all people and places.

Global catastrophic risks

• Mental health
• Climate change
• Biotechnology risk
• Ecological collapse
• Molecular nanotechnology
• Nuclear holocaust
• Pandemic

United Nations list

The UN has listed issues that it deems to be the most pressing as of 2015:

Top-level issue	Issues	Relevant UN directives/initiatives
Africa	poverty, diseases, desertification, malnutrition, regional conflict	Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, African Union, New Partnership for Africa’s Development, United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur
Ageing	ageing population, demographic transition	Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing, United Nations Principles for Older Persons, Proclamation on Ageing, International Year of Older Persons
Agriculture	sustainable agriculture, food security	Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
AIDS	Prevention of HIV/AIDS, HIV and pregnancy, HIV/AIDS denialism	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Atomic energy	nuclear weapons, nuclear waste	International Atomic Energy Agency, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Children	Child poverty, Child labour, Child abuse, Child mortality, Global education	Education First, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme, Global Education First Initiative
Decolonization	exploitation	United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, United Nations Trust Territories, International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism
Demining	land mines	Mine Action Coordination Center, Ottawa Treaty
Democracy	democratization	Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, UNDP, UNDEF, DPKO, DPA, OHCHR, UN Women
Development	social transformation, economic development	Social protection floor
Disarmament	weapons of mass destruction, chemical and biological weapons, conventional weapons, landmines and small arms	United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Environment	pollution, deforestation, desertification, etc., see Global environment issues below	United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, World Environment Day, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Framework Convention on Climate Change, Montreal Protocol, Convention to Combat Desertification, Convention on Biological Diversity
Family	socialisation of children, s.a. Ageing, Children	UNFPA, UNICEF, International Year of the Family
Food	missing food security and safety, food riots, world hunger	FAO, World Food Programme
Governance	lack of equity, participation, pluralism, transparency, accountability, rule of law
Health	maternal health, extreme poverty	Millennium Development Goals
Human rights	human rights violations	Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human settlements	slums, urbanization, sanitation	UN-HABITAT, Millennium Development Goal
Humanitarian assistance (s.a. Refugees)	humanitarian crisis, human migration, displacement	World Food Programme, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, International Organization for Migration
International law	war crimes, discrimination, state-corporate crime	International Law Commission, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979), United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982), Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (1996), International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (1999), Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)
Oceans / Law of the Sea (s.a. Water)	marine pollution, ocean governance	United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter
Peace and security		United Nations peacekeeping, List of United Nations peacekeeping missions, Peacebuilding Commission
People with disabilities	discrimination, lack of universal design	Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Population	overpopulation, world population	UNFPA
Refugees (s.a. Humanitarian Assistance)		United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Terrorism		Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism
Volunteerism		United Nations Volunteers
Water (s.a. Ocean trash)	water scarcity, water conflict, water privatization, water pollution	UN-Water, System of Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water, Water for Life Decade, International Recommendations on Water Statistics, United Nations Water Conference, Millennium Development Goals, International Conference on Water and the Environment (1992), Earth Summit (1992)
Women	women's rights, gender equality	Commission on the Status of Women, International Women's Year

As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UN Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) were superseded by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2016-2030), which are also known as The Global Goals. There are associated Targets and Indicators for each Global Goal.

World Economic Forum list

In keeping with their economy-centered view, the World Economic Forum formulated a list of 10 most pressing points in 2016:

1. Food security
2. Inclusive growth
3. Future of work/unemployment
4. Climate change
5. Financial crisis of 2007–2008
6. Future of the internet/Fourth Industrial Revolution
7. Gender equality
8. Global trade and investment and regulatory frameworks
9. Long-term investment/Investment strategy
10. Future healthcare

Global environmental issues

No single issue can be analysed, treated, or isolated from the others. For example, habitat loss and climate change adversely affect biodiversity. Deforestation and pollution are direct consequences of overpopulation and both, in turn, affect biodiversity. While overpopulation locally leads to rural flight, this is more than counterbalanced by accelerating urbanization and urban sprawl. Theories like the world-system theory and the Gaia hypothesis focus on the inter-dependency aspect of environmental and economic issues. Among the most evident environmental problems are:

• Overconsumption – situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem. This, along with overpopulation, are the primary factors affecting the severity of all of the rest of the issues on this list.Vorlage:Cn
• Overpopulation – too many people for the planet to sustain.
• Biodiversity loss
• Deforestation
• Desertification
• Global warming/climate change
• Habitat destruction
• Holocene extinction
• Ocean acidification
• Ozone depletion
• Pollution
  • Waste and waste disposal
  • Water pollution
• Resource depletion
• Urban sprawl

Literature

• John L. Seitz, Kristen A. Hite: Global Issues. 4. Auflage. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, ISBN 978-0-470-65564-1 (google.com). 
• Richard J. Payne: Global Issues. 4th Auflage. Pearson, 2012, ISBN 978-0-205-85459-2. 
• Michael T. Snarr, D. Neil Snarr (Hrsg.): Introducing Global Issues. 5th Auflage. Lynne Rienner Pub, 2012, ISBN 978-1-58826-845-7. 
• Shirley A. Fedorak: Global Issues: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Paperback. 2013, ISBN 978-1-4426-0596-1. 
• Global Education Magazine
• Global Environmental Politics

External links

• Think Global: Learn More About Global Issues. In: dus.psu.edu. Abgerufen am 31. Januar 2018 (englisch). 
• Global issues. In: TED.com. 11. Mai 2016, abgerufen am 18. Januar 2018. 
• Global Issues. In: TakingITGlobal. Abgerufen am 18. Januar 2018. 
• Global Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect us all. In: Global Issues. 24. September 2011, abgerufen am 18. Januar 2018. 
• Global Issues Network. In: Global Issues Network. 28. März 2013, abgerufen am 18. Januar 2018. 
• Issues of resilience, interdependence and growth affect global climate change risk. In: Carbon Brief. 20. Februar 2014, abgerufen am 18. Januar 2018. 
• A list of the most urgent global issues. In: 80,000 Hours. 30. April 2017, abgerufen am 6. Juni 2018.