The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released its annual Global Risks Report, identifying armed conflict, extreme weather, and disinformation as the most pressing concerns for 2025. The report, based on a survey of over 900 global risk experts, highlights the increasing interconnectedness of risks and the urgent need for global collaboration to address them.
Risk specialists identified armed conflict, extreme weather and disinformation among the top global risks for the year ahead, according to a new World Economic Forum survey.
"Rising geopolitical tensions, a fracturing of global trust and the climate crisis are straining the global system like never before," Mirek Dušek, managing director at WEF, said in a statement. The survey considers risks over the short term to 2025, the short to medium term to 2027 and the long term through to 2035. More than 900 global risks experts, policymakers and industry leaders were surveyed in September and October last year to inform the report.WEF said armed conflict was overlooked as a leading short-term risk two years ago, a development that reflects escalating geopolitical tensions and an increasingly fractured global landscape.
"It's clear that the world is in a dire state and the global risk landscape is like a squirrel's nest where risks are interconnected, layered on top of one another, making the business environment very, very difficult to navigate," Carolina Klint, chief commercial officer at Marsh McLennan Europe, told CNBC's Silvia Amaro in an interview out Wednesday.
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