Global risks over long (10-year) and short (2-year) time horizons, using a 1-7 scale for severity and five reporting categories.
Contents
Top 10 long-term risks
- Extreme weather events.
- Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse.
- Critical change to Earth systems.
- Natural resource shortages.
- Misinformation and disinformation.
- Adverse outcomes of AI technologies.
- Inequality.
- Societal polarisation.
- Cyber espionage and warfare.
- Pollution.
Likert scale for severity
1-7 where 1 is low severity and 7 is high severity.
Reporting categories
- Economic.
- Environmental.
- Geopolitical.
- Societal.
- Technological.