The Global Risks Report, published by the World Economic Forum with support from Marsh & McLennan, provides a rich perspective on the major threats that may impact global prosperity in 2021 and over the next decade.
The 16th edition of the report draws on feedback from nearly 700 global experts and decision-makers who were asked to rank their concerns in terms of likelihood and impact.
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Global Risks 2021: Access Denied
A Trilemma of Pressures on Industry
National politics in many countries has evidenced intense divisiveness and ‘pushbacks’, coupled with increasingly fractious international relations. These volatilities will likely persist, challenging cooperation on key priorities.
Read more in "The Fraying Fundamentals"
Risks for Middle Powers
National politics in many countries has evidenced intense divisiveness and ‘pushbacks’, coupled with increasingly fractious international relations. These volatilities will likely persist, challenging cooperation on key priorities.
Read more in "The Fraying Fundamentals"
Generation Pandemic
National politics in many countries has evidenced intense divisiveness and ‘pushbacks’, coupled with increasingly fractious international relations. These volatilities will likely persist, challenging cooperation on key priorities.
Read more in "The Fraying Fundamentals"
Withering Cities
National politics in many countries has evidenced intense divisiveness and ‘pushbacks’, coupled with increasingly fractious international relations. These volatilities will likely persist, challenging cooperation on key priorities.
Read more in "The Fraying Fundamentals"
The Digital Divide
National politics in many countries has evidenced intense divisiveness and ‘pushbacks’, coupled with increasingly fractious international relations. These volatilities will likely persist, challenging cooperation on key priorities.
Read more in "The Fraying Fundamentals"
To tackle the objectives of SDG 6—the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal to provide availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all—countries have defined water strategies and objectives. As a result, initiatives have been launched with defined targets related to water efficiency, from developing technology that cleans water to simply cutting back on water usage. And SDG 6 is just part of the challenge, as the need for sanitation has been further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now more than ever, experts and policymakers need to collaborate, to share proven solutions, to face up to the new challenges that lie ahead. Water a primarily scarce resource, is used by virtually all sectors of the economy and part of a very dynamic and unpredictable natural cycle, with continuous disruption on availability. Our new report highlights that countries need to take an integrated approach that considers their unique objectives, financial situation, and other factors.
To support the decision-making process, we outline an approach that countries can leverage to make informed choices that take the future state of the water sector and anticipated changes in demand into account.
2020 Hindsight: Reflecting on Resilience
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed fundamental disconnects between assumptions of global and national pandemic preparedness and the realities of crisis management on the ground. Remarkable examples of determination, cooperation and innovation have surfaced, but very few countries have shone across all aspects of the response effort and on none of those aspects can one say that the world came together in a fully coherent way.
Read more in "Reflections on resilience – learning from COVID-19"
Risk outlook: Failure to act looms large in 2021
A failure to act on climate change dominates the risk landscape in 2021 as the world gets ready for a delayed COP 26. Like 2020 other environmental risks rank highly in consequence and likelihood, with infectious disease and the ripple effect on employment and livelihood high. This year respondents also highlighted areas of opportunities to act and mitigate potential dire consequences.
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