The Global Risks Report 2019

https://www.marsh.com/uk/insights/research/the-global-risks-report-2019.html

Is the world sleepwalking into a crisis? Global risks are intensifying but the collective will to tackle them appears to be lacking. Instead, divisions are hardening. The world’s move into a new phase of state-centred politics, noted in last year’s Global Risks Report, continued throughout 2018. The idea of “taking back control”—whether domestically from political rivals or externally from multilateral or supranational organizations—resonates across many countries and many issues. The energy now being expended on consolidating or recovering national control risks weakening collective responses to emerging global challenges. We are drifting deeper into global problems from which we will struggle to extricate ourselves. The following sections focus on five areas of concern highlighted in this year’s Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), which frame much of the analysis in subsequent chapters:

(1) economic vulnerabilities,

(2) geopolitical tensions,

(3) societal and political strains,

(4) environmental fragilities, and

(5) technological instabilities.