United Nations | July 2025
The first-ever United Nations Global Risk Report 2024 has been released, offering insights from over 1,100 experts and stakeholders on the most pressing global risks and the world’s preparedness to address them. The report, based on a global survey conducted in 2024, assesses the perceptions of these risks across societal, technological, economic, environmental, and political categories. It highlights the interconnectedness of these risks and emphasizes the need for a more united and multilateral approach to strengthen the world’s capacity to anticipate, adapt, and respond to future challenges, according to the report.
António Guterres: “We are at a defining moment for humanity.
In a year marked by converging global crises, the international community faces mounting pressure to strengthen our collective capacity to anticipate and respond to shared risks.
This report, drawing on data collected in 2024, offers a valuable snapshot of how stakeholders around the world—governments, the private sector, academia, and civil society—perceive global risks and assess the multilateral system’s readiness to address them.
Even though circumstances have shifted since the time of data collection, one truth holds: we remain dangerously unprepared for the risks that matter most. But we are not powerless.
This report is a wake-up call – and a blueprint. It shows us where we are most exposed and how we can and must renew multilateral cooperation. It urges us to move from crisis response to prevention, from fragmentation to foresight, from division to solidarity and resilience.
We owe it to future generations to make that choice. The path forward lies in our hands.”
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