Pandemic risk was clearly the top concern at the time our research was conducted, but it was surprising that climate change and its consequences – energy transition risk and food insecurity – were ranked so low compared to others.

The UK in particular has experienced well publicised difficulties in regard to energy transition and food insecurity in the autumn of 2021, suggesting the low resilience score awarded by UK leaders to these risks (only 32% felt very prepared to anticipate and respond) was well founded.

US respondents are generally more confident than their UK counterparts on their resilience to these risks, by around 10 percentage points on average, reflecting a broader pattern of greater conservatism in UK compared to the US across our research.

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