Swiss Re has released a report – ”New emerging risk insights,” which is based on the reinsurer’s SONAR process, described as a “unique tool which uses Swiss Re’s internal risk management expertise to observe and evaluate new and emerging risks.”
Some of the other emerging risks examined in the SONAR report includes the following:
- Cloud computing security
- Contagious emerging market crisis
- Eurozone crisis leading to deflation
- Short-termism of macro-policy measures
- Air pollution as mortality driver
- Concussion crisis in sports
- Democratisation of genetic testing
- Digital slander
- E-cigarettes
- Financial consumer protection regulation
- From closed to open business models
- Food and water safety: trade-offs with growth
- Secession risks in Europe
- “One size fits all” regulation
- Plant pathogen threatens rubber production
- Aluminium health risks
- Smart cities
- Demographic inclusion at the workplace
- Urban farming
- Action cam liability
- Epigenetics
- From 3D to 4D printing
- Missing aircrafts triggers technological change
- Collapse of oceanic ecosystems
- Enhanced humans
- Methane hydrate – an upcoming energy source?
Want to read full report? Click this link (PDF 1.54 MB): http://media.swissre.com/documents/SONAR_2014.pdf