Systemic Risks

World now less able to meet pandemic threats

The world has been told it needs to prepare for a new pandemic as experts said despite the current Ebola crisis and COVID the planet remains no safer from the threat

World Health Organisation

Ebola threat real warns WHO

Scientists and experts have expressed their growing concerns over the spread of the latest Ebola outbreak as it moved from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring Uganda

Investment fund looks to climate risk as it announces huge aid scheme

British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has launched two major schemes to tackle economic development and climate risks

The age of interconnected risk has arrived

Nina Arquint, CEO UK & Ireland, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions tells Emerging Risk why the world is moving into a new era of greater interconnection of risks, and the (re)insurance industry needs to react to support its clients

Debt hits global record with more to come – OECD

Governments and companies borrowing hit a record $27 trillion in the past year with a prediction that the coming year will see that figure exceeded

Black swan warning as geopolitical risks intensify

Global businesses have been told to brace for black swan events with geopolitical risks unsurprisingly the key driver or events which will be of a scale which is currently unimagined