WASHINGTON — A range of environmental risks and cybersecurity threats top the list of concerns in the World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Risk Report, even as economic issues diminish amid continued growth.
While the economy appears to be improving, overall respondents to the Global Risk Perceptions Survey, which is the foundation for the report, expect 2018 to be a potentially volatile year. About 59 percent expected to see risk increasing, and 93 percent said they expected a worsening of “political or economic confrontations/frictions between major powers” this year.
Chief among the global risks is the environment and climate change, according to the report. The survey found that all five risks in the environmental category were ranked higher than average on both likelihood of happening and on impact over the next 10 years.
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