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Climate crisis, social divides and uneven recovery top global risks in 2022: WEF -

The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of global risks found that climate action failure, extreme weather, and biodiversity loss - were what worried experts most.

Many business leaders, politicians and academics are overwhelmingly pessimistic about the threat COVID-19 still poses even as the pandemic enters its third year. They worry that an uneven economic recovery could deepen divisions within societies and between countries.

Climate change was seen as the number one danger by respondents in the WEF’s annual risks report on Tuesday.

As the world enters the third year of the pandemic, the climate crisis, growing social divides, heightened cyber risks and uneven global recovery are the top global risks in 2022.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has said the challenges of climate change, cyber-security and space are emerging risks to global economic recovery.

Survey cites climate change as biggest threat to world economy

Extreme weather was considered the world's biggest risk in the short term and a failure of climate action in the medium and long term—two to 10 years, the survey showed.

LONDON—Only one in 10 World Economic Forum members surveyed expects the global recovery to accelerate over the next three years, a poll of nearly 1,000 business, government, and academic leaders found, with only one in six optimistic about the world outlook.

The World Economic Forum’s survey of global risks found climate action failure, extreme weather, and biodiversity loss were what worried experts…