i) The World Economic Forum ("WEF") publishes a comprehensive series of reports which examine the broad range of global issues. WEF seeks to address with stakeholders its mission to improve the state of the world. The WEF's Global Risks 2011 [Sixth Edition] highlighted the below two primary mega trends with the potential to inject significant disruption into global systems:
"Economic disparity and global governance failures both influence the evolution of many other global risks and inhibit our capacity to respond effectively to them," the forum's Global Risks report for this year's conference notes.
"In this way, the global risk context in 2011 is defined by a 21 Century paradox: as the world grows together, it is also growing apart."