Failure to act on climate change is world’s top long-term threat: WEF report

11 January 2022

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A World Economic Forum (WEF) report has cited failure to act on climate change as the number one long-term “threat to the world” and the risk with the most potential to have severe global impacts over the next 10 years.

The WEF’s Global Risks Report 2022 warned that a “disorderly” climate transition stood to exacerbate inequalities among and within countries, as climate change manifested in the form of droughts, fires, floods, resource scarcity and species loss.

“Governments,

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Failure to act on climate change is world’s top long-term threat: WEF report

A World Economic Forum (WEF) report has cited failure to act on climate change as the number one long-term “threat to the world” and the risk with the most potential to have severe global impacts over the next 10 years.

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