Global Risks Report

Not to mention the environmental pressures compounding the economic ones.

The Global Risks Report highlights extreme weather events, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as the top global concerns for the next decade.

We are seeing insurance companies refuse to write policies in states with high climate risks, which directly impacts the housing market and corporate real estate.

And here is the core friction.

A new UN survey says large-scale war is increasingly seen as an imminent global risk.

The 2026 Global Risk Report found that 36% of respondents expect a large-scale war within one year and 76% within seven years.

Stéphane Dujeric is the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General.

Today, we launched the 2026 Global Risk Report, which finds that geopolitical tensions and large-scale war are now seen among the most pressing and interconnected risks of our world.

The survey gathered views from 1,300 people around the world who assessed 28 global risks.

Large-scale war saw the biggest rise in perceived imminence, followed by a global financial crisis, supply chain collapse, and cybersecurity breakdown.

Now, IT leaders must account for semiconductor supply chains, export controls, tariffs, AI regulations, wars and regional conflicts, shipping disruptions, and even electricity required to power AI infrastructure.

According to the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report twenty twenty-six, geoeconomic confrontation is now the world's top near-term risk.

This isn't about politics, it's about planning.

External geopolitical forces have become architecture constraints that can influence technology decisions long before systems are deployed.

And they found that only 10% of the general population believes that their country shares common values.

You know, WEF in its Global Risks Report talks about streets versus elites.

So if people question the extent of polarization, the numbers are absolutely stark and startling.

And I think that when it comes to employees, I think we forget that basically employees are human beings as well.

And it kind of hasn't.

This year has changed.

There was a massive leap in the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report, where the adverse outcomes of AI over two years jumped from number 30 to number 5.

And AXA found that only 11% of risk experts believe that public authorities are prepared for AI risks.