UN Summit of the Future: RISKS ON THE HORIZON
Panel discussion on how foresight can complement classical risk assessment methods.
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2024, 8:30 PM GMT+2 – Sep 22, 2024, 9:45 PM GMT+2
New York, 405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, USA
About the event
Background
The United Nations will publish its first Global Risk Report in Autumn 2024. This follows the UNDRR UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2023. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission published in June 2024 its report “Risks on the Horizon”. In addition, the World Economic Forum published its Global Risk Report in January 2024.
Discussion topics
During this event, speakers will highlight how existing foresight methods can help to identify future risks, many of which are inter-generational, by using methods which do not rely on a risk already being known.
Findings covered can be polycrisis, interactions between risks and how opportunities can rise from risk assessments. It will also cover how insights from different risk studies can depend on geographical (global / regional) focus and how interaction between the work of individual states and international organisations respectively can strengthen risk analysis. Because many risks…