10 Environmental and Social Impacts Assessment and Management
Oswald Eppers
K-UTEC
10.1 Sustainable Growth and Environment
The annually published Global Risks Report from the World Economic Forum presents the results of the latest Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), followed by an analysis of key risks emanating from current economic, societal, environmental, and technological tensions (WEF, 2023). The report published in January 2022 notes that, for the next five years, respondents signaled social and environmental risks as the most concerning. However, over a ten-year horizon, “climate action failure”, “extreme weather”, and “biodiversity loss” rank as the top three most severe risks (WEF, 2022). People ...
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