The Global Risks Report 2024

Preparing for the decade ahead 2.7 When asked about the global political outlook for cooperation on risks over the next decade, two-thirds of respondents (66%) believe that we will face a multipolar or fragmented order, in which middle and great powers contest, set and enforce regional rules and norms (Figure 2.31). Cooperation on urgent global issues, from an interrelated environmental crisis to high-speed technological advances, could be in increasingly short supply, requiring new approaches to addressing global risks. The next chapter (Chapter 3: Responding to global risks) explores different types of global risks and how to address them ahead of the next decade in a new multipolar context. Global political outlook FIGURE 2.31 Source World Economic Forum Global Risks Perception Survey 2022-2023.15% Bipolar or bifurcated order shaped by strategic competition between two superpowers 9% Continuation or reinvigoration of the US-led, rules-based international order 66% Multipolar or fragmented order in which middle and great powers contest, set,and enforce regional rules and norms 10% Realignment towards a new international order led by an alternative superpower“Which of the following best characterizes the global political environment for cooperation on global risks in 10 years?” Global Risks Report 2024 76