Global Risks 2015 | The World Economic Forum

The 2015 edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks report completes a decade of highlighting the most significant long-term risks worldwide, drawing on the perspectives of experts and global decision-makers.

Over that time, analysis has moved from risk identification to thinking through risk interconnections and the potentially cascading effects that result. This year’s report underscores potential causes as well as solutions to global risks.

Not only do the WEF set out a view on 28 global risks in the report’s traditional categories (economic, environmental, societal, geopolitical and technological) but also they consider the drivers of those risks in the form of 13 trends. In addition, they have selected initiatives for addressing significant challenges, which they hope will inspire collaboration among business, government and civil society communities.