In every threat to the planet, there’s a potential opportunity either to avert that threat or mitigate its impact. Take climate change. Rising seas and deeper droughts are enormous long-term risks, but there’s also opportunities for new infrastructure and different types of agriculture, innovations forced by the risk. A new report does a lot of this type of reframing, essentially taking the World Economic Forum’s recent risk report and turning it on its head. It sets out five risks—unstable regions, soil depletion, inequality, climate change’s impact on cities, and cyber conflicts. Then it shows these are new businesses if companies were so inclined to see them that way.
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