Climate change takes top spot for global expert worries

Climate change has become the biggest concern to global experts this year, overtaking the pandemic. That’s according to the World Economic Forum’s yearly survey of global risks, which put climate action, extreme weather and loss of biodiversity as the top priorities. In its 17th edition, the Global Risks Report was largely completed by European experts, with 44% coming from the continent. Peter Giger, Chief Risk Officer at the Zurich Insurance Group commented: “The climate crisis remains the biggest long-term threat facing humanity. Failure to act on climate change could shrink global GDP by one-sixth and the commitments taken at COP26 are still not enough to achieve the 1.5°C goal.