[...] not just in the protracted health pandemic and the associated economic recession, but on a range of wider geo-political, environmental and social fronts, in 2021. Six analysts will each pick out three key events or developments and assess their long-term importance - from the advent of a new US President and election of a new German government, to rapidly-rising awareness of climate change and extreme weather events, to the disruption of supply chains and the way that the rise of China is reformatting a wide range of global issues.