Climate change

2023 has been a year of tackling thorny issues for Norwegians. Ordinary citizens and consumers, business leaders and politicians have had to grapple with paradoxes with no easy answer in sight.

A few miles off the coast of Vietnam, the Philippines is an archipelago in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. The people are warm, full of hospitality and the lands are lush surrounded with sandy beaches and twinkling oceans. Amidst the scenic background, 2023 greeted the country with several challenges – notably, a barrage of data breaches and towards the latter half of the year, natural disasters hinting to the increasing effects of climate change.

Focusing on environmentalism as COP28 approaches.

And six in ten say their government is not working hard enough to tackle climate change.

August: Barbie hits the $1 billion mark at the global box office

November: As COP28 kicks off in the UAE, we review global citizens’ expectations for the future of climate change

AXA has published the tenth edition of its Future Risks Report. Carried out among 3,500 experts in 50 countries and a representative sample of 20,000 members of the general population in 15 countries, this study measures and ranks their perception of evolving and rising risks. Since 2020, this report has been produced in partnership with Ipsos. The data is then analyzed by the AXA Group's in-house experts.

People continue to recognise infrastructure’s ‘double dividend’ but see substantial room for improvement.

Inflation remains the number one concern in What Worries the World for the 18th month in a row.