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When risk warnings go unused

What Davos revealed about the limits of anticipatory governance.

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Feb 06, 2026
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Smoke billows from a chimney against a hazy sunset.
Environmental degradation remains a dominant long-term risk in global assessments, even as political attention shifts elsewhere. (Johannes Plenio/Unsplash)

Global risk intelligence still points to environmental breakdown as the dominant long-term threat but political and economic institutions are increasingly putting off acting on that knowledge.

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