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The World Economic Forum Global Risk 2012 Report
is based on a survey of 469 experts
from Industry, Government, Academia and Civil Society.
The survey captures the perceived Impact, Likelihood and Interconnections
of 50 prevalent global risks.
These risks are divided into 5 categories:
Economic, Environmental, Geopolitical,
Societal and Technological.
The report also identifies 5 centers of gravity,
one for each risk category.
These are: Chronic Fiscal Imbalances,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Global Governance Failure
Unsustainable Population Growth
and Critical Systems Failure.
Each of these are linked by 4 critical connectors:
Severe income disparity, Major systemic financial failure,
Unforeseen negative consequences of regulation
and extreme volatility in energy and agriculture prices.
There are 449 interconnections.
The report examines in depth 3 main risk cases.
The cases are titled: The Seeds of Dystopia
How Safe are our Safeguards?
and The Dark Side of Connectivity.
The report also highlights X factors.
Emerging concerns with still unknown consequences
that warrant further research.
These X factors include: Volcanic Winter,
Cyber Neotribalism and Epigenetics.
This year's special report features an initial analysis
of the unprecedented disaster that took place in Japan
on March 11, 2011.
Global risks do not respect borders
and the aim of the Global Risk Report
is to help countries, communities and companies to work together
to address these risks today
before they become major problems tomorrow.