Nidhi Razdan: Five challenges for the world in the new year

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As 2024 begins, the world faces challenges on multiple fronts. So much has happened over the last couple of years that it’s hard to believe four years have elapsed since the COVID pandemic upended our lives. What are the biggest challenges we will face in 2024? This is my top 5 list, in no particular order:  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/five-challenges-for-the-world-in-the-new-year-1.100143519  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #Dubai #climatechange

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00:002023 was a chaotic year and 2024 is probably going to be even worse.

00:09Here are the top five challenges as I see them for the world.

00:13The first of course is climate change.

00:15Even though there was agreement on some issues at the Dubai COP summit a few months ago,

00:19it's not enough to deal with what is now an immediate crisis facing us right now, not

00:24something that future generations would have to deal with.

00:27The second are geopolitical tensions, from the Ukraine-Russia conflict that's been dragging

00:32on to the Israel-Hamas war that is threatening to engulf more parts of the world.

00:37All of this has political and economic consequences for the rest of us.

00:41The third is the state of the economy.

00:44Major world economies are slowing down, there's a threat of recession, or they're just simply

00:48not doing well.

00:49The only bright spot seems to be India at the moment.

00:53The fourth big challenge will come from artificial intelligence.

00:56We saw the first gathering of world leaders in the UK just months earlier, and 2024 could

01:01be a defining year in how world's leading countries decide to deal with AI and the opportunities

01:08and challenges that it presents.

01:11Finally, elections will take place in major democracies, whether it's the United States,

01:15India, and even the UK.

01:18All of this will have a bearing in our future.

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