Hindsight

Highlights

1. Dear People of 2021: What Can We Learn From Hindsight?

   For the first series from the Headway initiative, we followed up on forecasts from decades past to ask what the passage of time has revealed.

    By Matthew Thompson

   

   

2. Hindsight

   Millions More People Got Access to Water. Can They Drink It?

   The U.N. pledged to halve the proportion of the world without access to clean drinking water by 2015.

    By Lucy Tompkins

   

   

3. 1. Hindsight

      What Can One Life Tell Us About the Battle Against H.I.V.?

      In 2001, U.N. estimates suggested 150 million people would be infected with H.I.V. by 2021. That preceded an ambitious global campaign to curb the virus. How well did it work?

       By Sarika Bansal

      

      

   2. Hindsight

      Europe Met a Climate Target. But Is It Burning Less Carbon?

      The European Union promised to reduce its emissions 20 percent by 2020. Did it happen?

       By Lois Parshley