2021 saw the world cautiously emerge from the first year of a global pandemic, with vaccines providing the strongest tool at our disposal to fight Covid-19. It was the year of the jabs. New variants of the virus emerged while countries struggled to access the vaccines, hampered by unequal distribution and resistance by anti vaccine movements. The effects of the climate crisis were more obvious and urgent than ever, especially in Europe and North America, which experienced some of their most extreme weather conditions in generations. 20 years after being ousted, the Taliban took back power in Afghanistan triggering a humanitarian crisis with thousands of people fleeing the country. Migration crises continued all over the world, from Honduras to Turkey, to Belarus and the Mediterranean. The year started with the shocking images of the assault on the US Capitol and continued with the military coup in Myanmar. As economic activity started to pick up post-Covid, the world struggled with supply shortages and the international markets took a hit after the Suez Canal was blocked due to a stranded container ship.