The World Economic Forum has recently released its 2025 edition of its Global Risks Report. The report is based upon a global risks perception survey completed by over 900 risk experts and over 11,000 business leaders from around the world.
Key themes of this year’s report are:
- Declining Optimism
- Deepening geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions
- A growing sense of societal fragmentation
- Environmental risks – from long-term concern to urgent reality
- Technological risks – still ‘under the radar’
- The time to act is now – is consensus possible in a fragmenting world?
Analysis of the responses includes:
Global Risks Ranked by Severity
Changes in short-term (2 years) global risks perception (2024 vs 2025)
The full report is available to view here.
Griffiths & Armour recommends that organisations review their enterprise risk management assessments in light of this report. Griffiths & Armour can undertake enterprise risk management reviews to assist organisations to manage and minimise the risks they face. Guidance, template documentation and training on enterprise risk management is also available within RMworks, Griffiths & Armour’s online risk management portal available to all clients. Further information on RMworks is available here.
