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  • Title Page
  • Section 1
    • Preface
    • Foreword
    • Executive Summary
    • Introduction
  • Section 2
    • Testing Economic and Environmental Resilience
    • Digital Wildfires in a Hyperconnected World
    • The Dangers of Hubris on Human Health
  • Section 3
    • Special Report: Building National Resilience to Global Risks
  • Section 4
    • Survey Findings
  • Section 5
    • X Factors
    • Conclusion
  • Section 6
    • Appendix One – The Survey
    • Appendix Two – Likelihood and Impact
    • Appendix Three – Resilience
    • Acknowledgements
    • Project Team
  • Section 7 - Online Only Content
    • The Global Risks 2013 Data Explorer
    • Resilience Practices: One-Year Follow-Up Analysis Of Global Risks 2012 Cases
    • Videos
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  • Report Home
  • Title Page
  • Section 1

    • Preface
    • Foreword
    • Executive Summary
    • Introduction
  • Section 2

    • Testing Economic and Environmental Resilience
    • Digital Wildfires in a Hyperconnected World
    • The Dangers of Hubris on Human Health
  • Section 3

    • Special Report: Building National Resilience to Global Risks
  • Section 4

    • Survey Findings
  • Section 5

    • X Factors
    • Conclusion
  • Section 6

    • Appendix One – The Survey
    • Appendix Two – Likelihood and Impact
    • Appendix Three – Resilience
    • Acknowledgements
    • Project Team
  • Section 7 - Online Only Content

    • The Global Risks 2013 Data Explorer
    • Resilience Practices: One-Year Follow-Up Analysis Of Global Risks 2012 Cases
    • Videos

Global Risks 2013
Eighth Edition

An Initiative of the Risk Response Network
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The Global Risks Report 2013 analyses 50 global risks in terms of impact, likelihood and interconnections, based on a survey of over 1000 experts from industry, government and academia.

This year’s findings show that the world is more at risk as persistent economic weakness saps our ability to tackle environmental challenges. The report highlights wealth gaps (severe income disparity) followed by unsustainable government debt (chronic fiscal imbalances) as the top two most prevalent global risks. Following a year scarred by extreme weather, from Hurricane Sandy to flooding in China, respondents rated rising greenhouse gas emissions as the third most likely global risk overall. The findings of the survey 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. In a special report on national resilience, the groundwork is laid for a new country resilience rating, which would allow leaders to benchmark their progress. The report also highlights “X Factors” – emerging concerns which warrant more research, including the rogue deployment of geoengineering and brain-altering technologies.

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