Intersecting Futures: Global Trends Shaping and Shaped by Climate Change over the Next Century
Publisher: Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Author(s): Thijs van Aken and Laura Birkman
Date: 2026
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Cooperation, Governance
Climate change is no longer a distant environmental challenge – it is rapidly reshaping global stability, economic resilience, and geopolitical competition. In Intersecting Futures, Thijs van Aken and Laura Birkman show how climate impacts will interact with major global trends throughout the 21st century, acting as a powerful threat multiplier across systems.