3. Risk Factors of the Power Supply

The increasingly interconnected, fast-moving, unmanageable and unpredictable world brings with it an unprecedented variety of known and as yet unknown challenges as well as risks. Among the world's most influential analyses of the global risks of our time is considered the Global Risks Report of the annual World Economic Forum held in Switzerland. The January 2021 report, as a result of the approximately 1,000 risk experts surveyed worldwide, lists for the first time seven instead of five hazards that are most likely to occur (in the order shown), including extreme weather events, failure of climate change mitigation measures, human-caused environmental damage, infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, digital power concentration, and digital inequality.