WEF.
The world
is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to
tackle environmental challenges, according to the World Economic Forum’s
Global Risks 2013 report. This is one of the key findings of a survey
of over 1000 experts from industry, government and academia, who were
polled on how they expect 50 global risks to play out over the next ten
years. The results fed into an analysis of three major risk cases:
Testing Economic and Environmental Resilience, Digital Wildfires in a
Hyperconnected World and The Dangers of Hubris on Human Health. The
report also includes a special chapter on resilience as well as a
section on “X Factors” – emerging concerns with unknown consequences.
