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Tomorrow, 25 May, the Foresight Centre is publishing its report “Future of Mobility. Development Trends up to 2035”, which explores the mobility of the Estonian population, and the consequent challenges on the transport system.

By 2030, the annual state budget excise revenue from petrol and diesel fuel will fall by nearly EUR 100 million as a result of the broader use of electric vehicles, says the Foresight Centre report “Future of Mobility. Development Trends up to 2035” which will be published on Tuesday.

Over the last 20 years, the use of a private car to commute between home and work has nearly doubled in Estonia, says the Foresight Centre report “Future of Mobility. Development Scenarios up to 2035” which will be published on Tuesday. Transport takes up 14% of the total expenditure of residents.

The Estonian transport system is very car-centred and the main challenge in the coming decades will be to reduce the environmental impacts relating to cars. The study “Mobility Profiles of the Residents of Estonia”, commissioned by the Foresight Centre, shows that at least one-fifth of urban dwellers would be ready to replace using a private car with more sustainable means of mobility.

The COVID-19 crisis has sped up the transformation of traditional ways of working and stratification of labour market, which lowers the social protection of workers. The future of social protection was discussed at the Foresight Centre webinar “Are Individual Savings Accounts the Future of Social Protection?” held on 22 April.

The coronavirus crisis has put the traditional forecasting models into question and increased the need for scenarios, says the Yearbook of Foresight Centre. On the basis of studies, the publication maps the development trends relating to the crisis and Estonia’s possible exit strategies from the corona crisis.

The corona pandemic has accelerated changes in the economic structure, says the Yearbook of the Foresight Centre, published next Monday. Many labour-intensive economic sectors are in trouble and social inequalities have deepened, having taken on new forms.

The boosting platformisation of the economy is an effective tool for the ever-increasing division of the world into the US and Chinese spheres of influence, says the Yearbook of Foresight Centre, which will be published in March. The option for the European Union is to strive to become a regulative superpower in the platform economy with the support of its large internal market.

Governance expert Annika Uudelepp joined the Foresight Council as representative of the President of the Republic. The Foresight Council approves the annual national action plan on foresight and makes proposals concerning the principal trends and topics of foresight to be studied by the Foresight Centre in the Chancellery of the Riigikogu.

In 2021, the Foresight Centre will study the future opportunities of the Estonian tax system, and the issues relating to long-term care, changes in higher education and mobility of the population. Altogether, the Centre will deal with the possible development trends and scenarios in four fields this year.