This 18th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report is based on a risk perceptions survey of 1200 experts on the likelihood, severity, and interconnections between 37 global risks. It finds that the biggest risk in the next two years is the cost of living crisis, and the biggest risk in the next […]
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The report highlights the distinctive harms for children and future generations of eight global trends that are part of the polycrisis: continued impacts of the pandemic, inflation, food insecurity, energy shortages, underinvestment in children, threats to democratic rights, international factionalism, and internet inequality.
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This Foresight Brief argues that conventional risk management frameworks cannot grapple with the growing number of systemic and existential risks generated by decades of globalization. Instead, these risks require more long-term thinking – “intentional consideration of what might happen in the future, the choices for influencing it and the consequences of those choices” (p. 10).
This briefing note presents an integrated perspective on climate, environmental, and disaster risk science and practice concerning systemic risk. It provides an overview of the evolving concepts of systemic risk over time and identifies commonalities across terminologies and perspectives used in different contexts.
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The Global Risks Scientists’ Perceptions Report 2021 presents the results of the second iteration of a global survey aimed at capturing how scientists perceive pressing global risks. Conducted between June 16 and July 28, 2021, the survey targeted scientists affiliated with Future Earth, the International Science Council, and the International Observatory on the Social Impacts
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