:2030s
{{Short description|Next decade of the Gregorian calendar (2030–2039)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}{{Decadebox|203}}
The 2030s (pronounced "twenty-thirties" or "two thousand [and] thirties"; shortened to "the '30s" and also known as "The Thirties"Murmann, Boris; Hoefflinger, Bernd (2020). "The Thirties". In: NANO-CHIPS 2030, pp. 577–583.) is the next decade in the Gregorian calendar that will begin on 1 January 2030, and end on 31 December 2039.
Plans and goals
- NASA plans to execute a crewed mission to Mars by the mid-2030s.{{cite web|author=SPACE.com Staff|date=August 31, 2011|title=Space Agencies Set Roadmap for Manned Mars Mission|url=http://www.space.com/12795-mars-missions-roadmap-human-space-exploration.html|access-date=March 15, 2012|work=Space.com}}
- Targets of the goals of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda are set for 2030.{{cite web|title=Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform|url=https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld/|access-date=October 6, 2020|website=sustainabledevelopment.un.org}}
- Some climate-related goals from COP26 are for 2030:
- The Glasgow Climate Pact aims to "[reduce] global carbon dioxide emissions by 55% by 2030 relative to the 2010 level".{{cite book |title=Glasgow Climate Pact |publisher=The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement |location=Glasgow |page=3 |url=https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma3_auv_2_cover%20decision.pdf |access-date=November 19, 2021 |archive-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115132413/https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma3_auv_2_cover%20decision.pdf |url-status=live}} However, based on existing pledges the emissions in the year 2030 will be 14% higher than in 2010.{{cite journal |last1=Masood |first1=Ehsan |last2=Tollefson |first2=Jeff |name-list-style=amp |date=November 14, 2021 |title='COP26 hasn't solved the problem': scientists react to UN climate deal |journal=Nature |volume=599 |issue=7885 |pages=355–356 |bibcode=2021Natur.599..355M |doi=10.1038/d41586-021-03431-4 |pmid=34782787 |s2cid=244132496 |doi-access=free}}
- More than 100 countries pledged to reverse deforestation.
- India plans to draw half of its energy requirement from renewable sources.{{cite news |last=Frayer |first=Lauren |date=November 3, 2021 |title=India pledges net-zero emissions by 2070 — but also wants to expand coal mining |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/11/03/1051805674/modi-india-cop26-coal-renewable-energy?t=1636899927203 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114145317/https://www.npr.org/2021/11/03/1051805674/modi-india-cop26-coal-renewable-energy?t=1636899927203 |archive-date=November 14, 2021 |access-date=November 17, 2024 |work=NPR}}
- China aims to peak {{CO2}} emissions before 2030.{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Fiona |last2=Watts |first2=Jonathan |last3=Ni |first3=Vincent |name-list-style=and |date=October 28, 2021 |title=China's new climate plan falls short of Cop26 global heating goal, experts say |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/28/disappointing-but-not-unexpected-china-climate-goal-leaves-experts-unsatisfied |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102112339/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/28/disappointing-but-not-unexpected-china-climate-goal-leaves-experts-unsatisfied |archive-date=November 2, 2021 |access-date=November 2, 2021 |work=The Guardian}}
- The 2030 Climate Target Plan of the EU aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. The European Commission made proposals in July 2021 for how to achieve this goal.{{cite web|date=September 11, 2020|title=2030 Climate Target Plan|url=https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/eu-climate-action/2030_ctp_en|access-date=January 19, 2022|website=Climate Action – European Commission|language=en}}
- The international community, including the United Nations, World Bank, and the United States, have set the goal of completely eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.{{cite news |last=Tran |first=Mark |date=30 May 2013 |title=New UN goals call for end to extreme poverty by 2030 | Global development |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/may/30/un-end-extreme-poverty-2030-goals |access-date=November 12, 2015 |newspaper=The Guardian}} Noting a significant decline in extreme poverty since 1990, the World Bank has noted that the end of extreme poverty is in sight and pledged to cut it down to at most 3% of the world's population by this time.{{Cite web |date=November 3, 2015 |title=World Bank chief tells Stanford audience that ending extreme poverty is possible |url=https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2015/11/global-world-bank-110315 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Stanford University}}
- The World Health Organization and UNICEF have set a goal for universal access to basic sanitation by 2030.{{cite web|title=How and Why Countries are Changing to Reach Universal Access in Rural Sanitation by 2030 | The Water Blog|url=http://blogs.worldbank.org/water/how-and-why-countries-are-changing-reach-universal-access-rural-sanitation-2030|access-date=November 12, 2015|publisher=Blogs.worldbank.org}}
- The United Nations has made it a goal that Internet access and literacy will be universal by 2030.{{cite web|date=August 4, 2015|title=IFLA Welcomes the UN 2030 Agenda|url=http://www.ifla.org/node/9726|access-date=November 12, 2015|publisher=Ifla.org}}{{cite news |last=McCarthy |first=Kieren |date=September 8, 2015 |title=United Nations pledges to get everyone online... by 2030 |url=https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/08/united_nations_to_get_everyone_online_by_2030/ |access-date=November 17, 2024 |publisher=theregister.com}}
- The World Bank has called for all countries to implement universal health care by this time.{{cite web|date=August 10, 2015|title=UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 « International Literacy and Reading Blog|url=http://blogs.ifla.org/literacy-reading/2015/08/10/un-sustainable-development-goals-for-2030/|access-date=November 12, 2015|publisher=Blogs.ifla.org}}
- Kenya Vision 2030
- Saudi Vision 2030
- Egypt Vision 2030
- Qatar National Vision 2030
- National Development Plan 2030
- Kuwait Vision 2035
- Transport for London plans to make all buses electric.
- Finland plans on being a nicotineless and smokeless country by 2030.
Expected events
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- April: Europa Clipper will arrive at Jupiter's moon Europa.{{Cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |date=February 10, 2021 |title=NASA to use commercial launch vehicle for Europa Clipper |url=https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-use-commercial-launch-vehicle-for-europa-clipper/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20210216064656/https://spacenews.com/nasa%2Dto%2Duse%2Dcommercial%2Dlaunch%2Dvehicle%2Dfor%2Deuropa%2Dclipper/ |archive-date=February 16, 2021 |access-date=November 12, 2024 |publisher=SpaceNews}}
- The 2030 Winter Olympics will be held in French Alps.
- The 2030 FIFA World Cup will be held in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco (with anniversary match hosts Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay).
- The 2030 World Expo will be held in Saudi Arabia in its capital city of Riyadh.{{Cite web |last=Zbibo |first=Zeina |date=November 28, 2023 |title=Saudi capital Riyadh to host World Expo 2030 |url=https://arab.news/6fch8 |access-date=February 19, 2024 |website=Arab News |language=en}}
- The 2030 Mediterranean Games are expected to take place in Pristina, Kosovo.
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- NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station in January this year, directing any unbroken remnants into Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean.
- The 2031 Rugby World Cup will be held in the United States.
- The 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup will be held in the United States and other CONCACAF hosts.
- The 2031 Cricket World Cup will be held in India.
- The XXII Pan American Games will be held.
- The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will reach the Jovian system in July 2031.{{Cite web |title=NASA – NSSDCA – Spacecraft – Details |url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=JUICE |access-date=May 6, 2023 |website=nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov}}
- In Kazakhstan, the switch of the writing script of the Kazakh language from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet is scheduled to be fully implemented by 2031.
- In the United Kingdom, the Universal Studios Great Britain theme park is expected to open subject to planning approvals.
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- {{As of|2025}}, the Strait of Messina Bridge between Sicily and Calabria is projected to be opened for traffic in 2032.
- 23 July – 8 August: The 2032 Summer Olympics is expected to take place in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.{{cite web|last=Dunbar|first=Graham|date=June 10, 2021|title=Brisbane set to be named 2032 Olympics host next month|url=https://apnews.com/article/brisbane-2020-tokyo-olympics-olympic-games-sports-ee557ff07e482a6d0410a39ab503c58c|access-date=June 10, 2021|website=Associated Press}}
- June–July: Turkey and Italy will co-host the UEFA Euro 2032.{{cite news |author1=Selcuk Bugra Gokalp |title=Türkiye, Italy to co-host EURO 2032: UEFA |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/sports/turkiye-italy-to-co-host-euro-2032-uefa/3014052 |access-date=January 26, 2024 |agency=Anadolu Agency |date=October 10, 2023 |language=en}}
- 2 November: The 2032 United States presidential election is scheduled to be held.
- 22 December: The asteroid {{mpl|2024 YR|4}} which once had a impact rating of 3 on the Torino scale will pass by Earth.{{cite web | last=Wasser | first=Molly | title=NASA Update on the Size Estimate and Lunar Impact Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 | website=NASA Science | date=2025-04-02 | url=https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/planetary-defense/2025/04/02/nasa-update-on-the-size-estimate-and-lunar-impact-probability-of-asteroid-2024-yr4/ | access-date=2025-04-11}}
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- No credit and debit cards from Mastercard will have a magnetic stripe.{{cite news| last=Hyman | first=Vicki | title=Swiping left on magnetic stripes | publisher=Mastercard Newsroom | date=2 November 2024 | url=https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-stripe/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013201339/https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-stripe/ | archive-date=13 October 2023 | url-status=live | access-date=10 February 2025}}
- The 2033 Women's Rugby World Cup will be held in the United States.
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- The 2034 Winter Olympics is scheduled to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States.{{cite news |last1=Longman |first1=Jeré |last2=Panja |first2=Tariq |last3=Schmidt |first3=Michael S. |name-list-style=and |date=July 24, 2024 |title=Salt Lake Awarded 2034 Olympics Under I.O.C. Pressure Over Doping Inquiries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/world/olympics/salt-lake-city-winter-olympics-2034.html |accessdate=July 24, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}
- The 2034 FIFA World Cup is set to be held in Saudi Arabia.
- Dragonfly is expected to land on Saturn's moon of Titan.{{citation-attribution|1={{cite web|url=https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/aug2021/presentations/Turtle.pdf|title=OPAG August 2021|publisher=Zibi Turtle, Dragonfly PI, JHUAPL|date=August 31, 2021|access-date=February 20, 2024}} }}
- End of the project Northern Link (MTR), a rapid transit line in Hong Kong.
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- New petrol and diesel cars will be banned from sale in the United Kingdom and European Union.{{Cite news|date=November 18, 2020|title=Ban on new petrol and diesel cars in UK from 2030 under PM's green plan|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54981425|access-date=November 22, 2020}}
- ITER is expected to achieve full fusion in 2035.{{cite news |title=Solar power with a difference as ITER nuclear fusion assembly starts |url= https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-iter-idUSKCN24T1R3 |publisher=Reuters |date=July 28, 2020 |access-date=January 18, 2022}}
- The 2035 FIFA Women's World Cup will be held in the United Kingdom.
- All regions of the Lower Volga, southern Western Siberia and part of the Far East will experience a shortage of water resources for agriculture.{{cite journal |last1=Shevchenko |first1=V. A. |last2=Isaeva |first2=S. D. |last3=Dedova |first3=E. B. |year=2023 |title=Новый этап развития мелиоративно-водохозяйственного комплекса Российской Федерации |trans-title=A new stage in the development of the melioration and water management complex of the Russian Federation |url=https://new.ras.ru/upload/iblock/a8f/vfw1g7hafto3gx7qbnwgpmuljd0j8ykk.pdf#page=58 |url-status=live |journal=Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk |language=ru |volume=93 |issue=4 |page=355-361 |doi=10.31857/S0869587323040114 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216183756/https://new.ras.ru/upload/iblock/a8f/vfw1g7hafto3gx7qbnwgpmuljd0j8ykk.pdf#page=58 |archive-date=February 16, 2024}}
- End of the project Pakistan Vision 2035, the successor to Pakistan Vision 2025 aimed at attaining regional and global leadership in its target sectors.{{cite book |title=Pakistan2025 |url=https://www.pc.gov.pk/uploads/vision2025/Pakistan-Vision-2025.pdf}}
- The world population is expected to reach 9 billion around this time.{{Cite web |title=World Population Projections – Worldometer |url=https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-projections/ |access-date=April 28, 2023 |website=worldometers.info |language=en}}
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- The United States military's lease on the island of Diego Garcia, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, will expire if it is not renewed.{{Cite news |last=Karsten |first=Joshua |date=March 7, 2019 |title=UN ruling raises questions about future of US mission in Diego Garcia |url=https://www.stripes.com/migration/un-ruling-raises-questions-about-future-of-us-mission-in-diego-garcia-1.571709 |access-date=January 21, 2022 |work=Stars and Stripes |language=en}}
- The 2036 Summer Olympics will be held.
- 4 November: The 2036 United States presidential election will be held.
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- The Oxford English Dictionary is expected to publish its completed revised third edition.{{cite news|last=Rachman|first=Tom|date=January 27, 2014|title=Deadline 2037: the making of the next Oxford English Dictionary|newspaper=The Irish Times|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/deadline-2037-the-making-of-the-next-oxford-english-dictionary-1.1667328|access-date=August 27, 2019}}
- 10 July: The Apollo 10 lunar module, "Snoopy", will make a 4 million mile close approach to Earth.{{Cite journal |last=Dickinson |first=David |date=June 14, 2019 |title=Astronomers Might Have Found Apollo 10's "Snoopy" Module |url=https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-might-have-found-apollo-10-snoopy-module/ |journal=Sky & Telescope}}
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- 19 January: Any computer systems still measuring time with signed 32-bit Unix time will fail because of the year 2038 problem.
- 25 April: Latest possible date for Easter, last occurred 1943.
- The 2038 FIFA World Cup will be held the location of which has not been determined.
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- 2 September: The destroyers-for-bases deal's 99-year rent-free leases to the United States by the United Kingdom will expire.
- Commemorations of the centenary of World War II will begin this year, continuing through 2045.{{Cite web |last=Morris |first=Ben |date=2024-06-11 |title='Insane' amounts of data spurs new storage tech |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd116m3jyn1o |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
- The 2039 FIFA Women's World Cup will be held the location of which has not been determined.
See also
- List of decades
- Generation Z (The youngest members of that generation will enter legal adulthood in 2030).
- Generation Alpha (The majority of that demographic will come of age in this decade).
- Generation Beta (the children and teenagers of the decade).