The Global Risks Report 2024: Executive Summary

Tailored to the needs for risk leaders, this executive summary of the 2024 Global Risks Report highlights the key findings to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities. In this year’s report, the risk analysis is contextualized through four structural forces that will shape the materialization and management of global risks over the next decade: climate change, demographic bifurcation, technological acceleration, and geostrategic shifts. As societies seek to adapt to these changing forces, their capacity to prepare for and respond to global risks will be affected.

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