The Global Risks Report 2026
The Global Risks Report 2026, published by the World Economic Forum, is out. Based on insights from over 1,300 global leaders and experts, it assesses the severity of global risks across two horizons: short term (2 years) and long term (10 years).
For sustainability and ESG professionals, the report helps connect risk trends with how organizations plan, invest, and manage resilience.
It shows how geopolitical, economic, social, technological, and environmental risks are evolving and increasingly overlapping.
In the short term, geoeconomic confrontation ranks as the most severe risk, reflecting trade tensions, sanctions, and supply chain disruption.
Misinformation, societal polarization, and state-based armed conflict follow closely. Economic risks rise quickly, driven by concerns around downturns, inflation, debt, and asset bubbles. These pressures already affect market access, operating costs, and financial planning.
Technology risks continue to move up the agenda. Misinformation remains a key concern, while risks linked to AI accelerate across both horizons, raising questions around governance, workforce impacts, and trust. These issues increasingly sit within ESG and enterprise risk oversight.
The long-term outlook shifts the picture. Environmental risks dominate severity rankings, led by extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and critical changes to Earth systems. While these risks attract less attention in the short term, their impact on infrastructure, supply chains, insurance, and asset exposure continues to build.
Taken together, the two horizons highlight a core challenge for sustainability risk management. Near-term disruption demands action, while structural risks shape future operating conditions. Managing both is central to resilience.
What this means for sustainability and ESG teams
– Risk assessments need to reflect geopolitical, economic, and environmental drivers together.
– Physical climate risk and nature-related risks increasingly affect financial and operational performance.
– AI governance and misinformation are now part of ESG risk oversight.
– Scenario analysis should test both short-term disruption and structural exposure.
This risk landscape reinforces why sustainability now sits within core risk and strategy discussions. The interaction between immediate shocks and structural risks defines resilience.
The priority is alignment. Sustainability, risk, finance, and strategy teams need to work from the same assumptions, using this analysis to guide governance, investment decisions, and resilience planning.
Source: World Economic Forum, Global Risks Perception Survey 2025โ2026
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