Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Risk Response Network: Proactively Preparing for the Threat of Global Risks

  • World Economic Forum launches Risk Response Network in Davos
  • Risk Response Network will facilitate collective response to complex and interconnected global risks
  • Unique platform to help global leaders better understand, prepare and respond to a new risk landscape
  • Create a more resilient world by identifying and mitigating global risks while identifying emerging opportunities
  • Crisis Response Network to bring global insight to emergency response in real time 

Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 26 January 2011 – The World Economic Forum launches the Risk Response Network on the opening day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. The world has fundamentally changed and this new reality calls for more foresight and collective action to address a broad range of global risks. The network will address concerns about widening economic inequalities and failed global governance systems underpinning a raft of other interrelated risks ranging from financial governance to cybersecurity and resource scarcity. Uniquely placed to catalyse a collective response to this new landscape, the World Economic Forum is launching the platform to better understand, manage and respond to these complex and intertwined risks.

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