Climate change, biodiversity loss and food security could tranform into 'deadly cocktail'
The logo of the World Economic Forum is seen at the congress center in the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland, in this May 25 2022 file photo. Picture: ARND WIEGMANN/REUTERS
“The interplay between climate change impacts, biodiversity loss, food security and natural resource consumption is a dangerous cocktail,” said John Scott, head of sustainability risk at Zurich Insurance Group, which partnered on the report with risk strategy group Marsh McLennan. The conclusions of the report, prepared ahead of the annual WEF talks in the Swiss resort of Davos due next week, come after a year in which many commitments to act on climate change have been set aside in the energy crunch following the Ukraine war.
Other developments in the top 10 included the consequences of involuntary migrations, societal breakdown, cybercrime and economic hostilities between major trading blocs — which it considered more likely than outright military confrontation.
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