Bulletin n. 2/2016 | ||
December 2016 | ||
Ledo Gretel |
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Climate Change: a Leitmotif of Global Sustainability | ||
in Federalist Debate (The) , Year XXIX, Number 2, July 2016 , 2016 | ||
Countries acting alone had to face a set of problems which challenge the conventional limits of a national state. In recent times, global risks got the focus of major attention. They constitute an uncertain condition which, should it develop without control, will have a negative impact able to cause serious damages for the next 10 years. The recent Survey of the Perception of Global Risks (The Global Risks Report, 2016), edited by the World Economic Forum and including 29 global risks classified as social, technological, economic, environmental and geopolitical, in a time horizon of 10 years, put the absence of mitigation and adaptation measures to climate changes at the first place. In the last three years, climate change ranked in the fifth place. Today, it moves up to the first. Thus it proves to be the risk of major impact, above weapons of mass destruction (second place) and water crises (third place). Unintentional large-scale migrations and the impact caused by changes of energy prices (whether price increase or price decrease) follow. Economic risks, which include financial crises in leading economies and high structural unemployment or underemployment, ask for an analysis apart. | ||