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Global risk report 2025
January 21 , 2025
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- The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its latest Global Risks Report 2025.
- Misinformation and disinformation are viewed as the most severe global risk over the coming two years.
- Extreme weather events ranked second and state-based armed conflict is viewed as the third biggest threat.
- Over the next decade, extreme weather events remain the biggest concern.
- It is followed by biodiversity loss, critical change to the Earth’s systems and a shortage of natural resources.
- Since the report’s first edition in 2006, extreme weather events have been categorised under “environmental risks.”
- These events have climbed into the top six risks annually since 2014.
- It is ranking as the foremost global risk from 2017 to 2020 and regaining that position in 2024.
- In the short term (2025-2027), extreme weather events rank as the second most severe global risk.
- These events are now listed among the top five short-term risks in 28 countries, up from 24 countries last year.
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