Resilience Insights Report 2016
For over a decade, the Global Risks Report series has shed light on the increasing interconnectedness and rapidly evolving nature of global risks. As of its 2015 edition, the Report has put forward actionable solutions to address global risks, the scope of which is beyond the domain of just one actor. As global risks are increasingly felt in tangible ways by institutions, economies and people alike, the Global Risks Report 2016 calls for the “Resilience Imperative” – an urgent necessity to find new avenues and additional opportunities to withstand, mitigate, adapt to and build resilience against global risks and threats through collaboration among stakeholders.
To inform the debate on how to strengthen resilience against a variety of global risks, the Global Agenda Council on Risk & Resilience has embarked on a series of resilience-use cases with a joint focus on identifying measures that entities of all types and sizes can take to increase resilience and distilling what each stakeholder can bring to the collaboration table. Starting with support for a Forum-led use case on addressing future epidemics1, published in June 2015, the Council developed “Building Resilience in Nepal through Public-Private Partnerships” in October 2015 and will close the cycle by discussing the need and options for public-private collaboration to strengthen cyber resilience in May 2016.
In the following “Resilience Insights”, the Global Agenda Council on Risk & Resilience takes on three of the key findings of the Global Risks Report 2016 by exploring the “how” to build resilience to the “what” discussed in the Report.
Published by World Economic Forum, 2016
