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Climate and governance dominate the World Economic Forum's eighth-annual Global Risks report published this week.

"Dynamism in our hyperconnected world requires increasing our resilience to the many global risks that loom before us," writes the WEF's Klaus Schwab.

A total of 1,234 top experts from around the world submitted responses.

One of the questions asked the experts to rate the likelihood of 50 major events on a scale of 1 (least likely) to 5 (most likely).

We've ranked the 17 they said were most likely to occur.

Source: Business Insider

Jan 14, 2013

The biggest risks to our hyperconnected world

The most likely to occur global disasters as judged by the World Economic Forum.

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