The divide between rich and poor economies will continue to grow because the climate fund created for emerging markets remains unfunded, destroying trust between wealthy and developing nations, while emerging market voices will grow louder and more disruptive as a reaction, coordinating within multilateral forums

Water stress will become a top global risk in 2023 because only 3% of planetary water is fresh water, companies underestimate water's true cost by 3-5x, policy makers are ignoring the problem despite population reaching 8 billion and climate change increasing scarcity, creating a vicious cycle of increasing demand, decreasing supply, and lack of prioritized solutions.

Global cooperation on water issues will be very slow and minimal in impact; the first UN Water Conference since the 1970s will occur but will not produce any coordinated global roadmap of action, and solutions will take years to materialize even if started immediately.