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• Climate change named biggest global risk to countries and industries

  14 January 2016

  A failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change is the biggest material risk facing the world, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

• UNFCCC exemplifies global governance failures

  17 January 2014

  Slow progress at the UN climate talks is an indication of the growing "de-globalisation" of politics that will make it harder to deal with systemic global risks, according to the World Economic Forum.

• Most impact investors target market returns, says WEF

  25 September 2013

  Four out of five 'impact' investors target market rates of return, yet only 9% of US pension fund managers feel it is "a viable investment approach", says a report from the World Economic Forum.