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- The top global health stories from 2024 | World Economic Forum
The climate crisis could result in an additional 14 5 million deaths, $12 5 trillion in economic losses, and $1 1 trillion in extra costs to healthcare systems by 2050 Floods, droughts and heatwaves were highlighted as the three most acute climate risks for global health
- Global Risks Report 2025 | World Economic Forum
The Global Risks Report 2025 analyses global risks to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities
- 1. Global Risks 2023: Today’s Crisis - The World Economic Forum
Most respondents to the 2022-2023 Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS) chose “Energy supply crisis”; “Cost-of-living crisis”; “Rising inflation”; “Food supply crisis” and “Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure” as among the top risks for 2023 with the greatest potential impact on a global scale (Figure 1 1)
- Globalization isnt finished – it can unlock new growth and beat the . . .
The era of growing globalization between 1960 and the beginnings of the Global Financial Crisis in 2006-2007 reflected a positive-sum belief that globalization – including open markets, trade and cross-border flows of physical, intangible and financial capital – would produce net benefits All nations could be winners
- We’re in a ‘polycrisis’ - a historian explains what that means | World . . .
The financial crisis [for example] was about mortgage-backed securities But this coming together at a single moment of things which, on the face of it, don't have anything to do with each other, but seem to pile onto each other to create a situation in the minds of policymakers, business people, families, individuals
- These are the biggest global risks we face in 2024 and beyond
War and conflict, polarized politics, a continuing cost-of-living crisis and the ever-increasing impacts of a changing climate are destabilizing the global order The key findings of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 reflect these most pressing challenges faced by people in every region of the world
- Global Risks Report 2025 - The World Economic Forum
A sense of increasingly fragmented societies is reflected by four of the top 10 risks expected to present a material crisis in 2025 being societal in nature: Societal polarization (6% of respondents), Lack of economic opportunity or unemployment (3%), Erosion of human rights and or civic freedoms (2%) and Inequality (2%)
- The 20 humanitarian crises the world cannot ignore in 2023
Armed conflict, the climate crisis and economic turmoil are pushing a growing minority of the world’s population into ever deeper crisis These countries are home to just 13% of the global population and account for just 1 6% of global GDP, but they represent 81% of the forcibly displaced, 80% of the people facing crisis or catastrophic
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