The UN released it’s Global Risk Report 2024. The report is based on survey responses from over 1,100 stakeholders across 136 countries, which included representatives of governments, industry, civil society and academia.

The respondents identified Climate Change Inaction as the top risk as you can see.

Here are the most important risks based on the location of the respondents:

The report then correctly identifies the top connected risk to Climate Change Inaction as being Natural Hazard Risks and the cascading risk as being the Mass Movement of People

Now with Climate Change Inaction being the top risk, see if you can find the top connected risk and the cascading risk in the graphic below.

That's right, neither are in this graphic which shows the respondents perceptions of when global risks will manifest!

People in government, industry, civil society & academia, it would seem, are about to be blindsided by natural hazard risks which are not on the radar near-term (2024-2050) The hitherto stable physical-environment-rug is about to be ripped out from beneath a very large portion of the planet.

This despite what the IPPC indicated in 2022:

And despite what we are seeing happen in real-time around the globe:

What is somewhat bizarre is that respondents think we that our level of preparedness for the above is "ok-ish."

This lack of Climate Literacy is going to prove devastatingly costly, as we are already witnessing.

How ready are you?