Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
In The News
Britain’s ageing population ‘as big a threat as climate change’
- Source: The Daily Telegraph
28th May 2008
Britain's ageing population poses as big a threat to the country as climate change, a Government minister has warned.
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Fewer Britons in work due to ageing population and emigration rather than migrants, says report
- Source: The Guardian
- 9th January 2008
Demographic changes including an ageing population and rising emigration from Britain lie behind the fall in the number of UK-born people in work, rather than the arrival of new migrants, according to research published yesterday.
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