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The World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Risks Report indicated that growing environmental hazards, along with economic inequality and social polarization are the top three trends that will determine global progress over the next 10 years.
In this year's annual survey, nearly 750 experts assessed 30 global risks, as well as 13 underlying trends that could aggravate them or alter the interconnections between them. With growing political disaffection and disruption around the world as a backdrop.
The environment dominates the global risk landscape. Climate change has been the number two underlying trend this year. And for the first time, the survey's five environmental risks have been classified as high-risk and high-probability, with extreme weather events emerging as the top global risk.
While the world made significant progress in the area of climate change in 2016 following the ratification of the Paris Agreement by a number of countries such as the US and China, political change in Europe and North America puts these gains at risk. It also highlights the difficulties that leaders will face in agreeing on measures at the international level to address the most pressing economic and social risks.
"Leaders are required to take urgent action to identify ways to overcome political and ideological differences and to work together to solve critical problems. The momentum experienced in 2016 to tackle climate change shows that this is possible and makes us think that we could also achieve collective action at the international level to address other risks," says Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, Head of Global Competitiveness and Risks at the World Economic Forum.
More information in http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017
