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WEF's top 5 global risks all environmental

WEF's annual compendium of the biggest risks on the planet, released to shape next week's gathering at Davos, overwhelmingly focuses on the climate crisis.

Loggerhead sea turtle at Mahahual, Mexico along the Caribbean Sea coast
Loggerhead sea turtle at Mahahual, Mexico along the Caribbean Sea coast (AN/Bryan Katz)

GENEVA (AN) — The World Economic Forum's annual compendium of the biggest risks facing the planet, released on Wednesday to shape next week's gathering at the Swiss resort town of Davos, overwhelmingly focuses on the climate crisis.

All of the economic and geopolitical factors in WEF's 2020 Global Risks report such as increasing polarization and inequality take a perceived back seat to survey respondents' concerns about dire threats to planetary health from global warming and mass extinctions of species.

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