21 Jan 2020
Following on from his very direct – angry – warning video on the threat of Climate Change the links to his speech at the World Economic Forum are set out below. World Economic Forum ‘David Attenborough’s worried about this ocean threat – and it’s not plastic If the ocean was an economy, it would be […]
30 Jan 2019
Insurance Times ‘Environmental risks have again placed prominently in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks report Companies in the UK and around the world are sleep-walking into a catastrophe around environmental risk. This is according to Zurich’s group chief risk officer Alison Martin, who spoke to Insurance Times at the World Economic Forum’s launch of the Global […]
30 Jan 2019
World Economic Forum ‘The Global Risks Report 2019 is published against a backdrop of worrying geopolitical and geo-economic tensions. If unresolved, these tensions will hinder the world’s ability to deal with a growing range of collective challenges, from the mounting evidence of environmental degradation to the increasing disruptions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The report presents the results […]
25 Jan 2018
Extreme weather, natural disasters & water crises among top global risks in World Economic Forum report Extreme weather events and natural disasters have been identified as the top two global risks most likely to happen in the next ten years, according to The Global Risks Report 2018published by the World Economic Forum to coincide with this week’s […]
26 Jan 2017
The World Economic Forum has published the 12th Edition of its Global Risks Report for 2017 – with environmental concerns more prominent than ever and water flagged up as a key risk. For the past seven editions of the report, a cluster of interconnected environment-related risks – including extreme weather events, climate change and water […]
26 Jan 2016
WEF Report: A catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016, according to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the World Economic Forum. The annual assessment of risks conducted by the WEF before its annual meeting in Davos on 20-23 January showed that global […]
15 Jun 2015
http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2015 The Global Risks Landscape, as defined by the survey, highlights five global risks that stand out as both highly likely and highly potentially impactful (upper right quadrant of Figure 1). Interstate conflict has significantly leaped up both dimensions since 2014, arguably reflecting recent geopolitical conflicts that are fuelling geopolitical and social instability. As last […]