BSR Insight | WEF Report Reveals Top Global Risks
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Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services
Publication Date
January 31, 2012
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Based on a survey of 469 experts from industry, government, academia, and civil society, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) new “Global Risks 2012” report examines 50 global risks across five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal, and technological.
As illustrated in the image below, one issue in each category was identified as having the greatest systemic importance: severe income disparity (economic), greenhouse gas emissions (environmental), global governance failure (geopolitical), unsustainable population growth (societal), and critical systems failure (technological). The report also features three risk cases that describe the links between groups of global risks, and how they are likely to develop over the next 10 years.
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Source: Thomson Reuters Blog coverage of the World Economic Forum’s “Global Risks 2012, Seventh Edition”
About the Author(s)
Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services
With four years of sustainability communications expertise, Elissa works with BSR member companies in a range of sectors—including those in information and communications technology; food, beverage, and agriculture; energy; and consumer products—on various sustainability issues including reporting, stakeholder engagement, and human rights... Read more →
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