Following the release of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Risks Report 2018, we asked One Young World (OYW) Ambassadors around the world what they consider to be their country's biggest risk. 

This is what they had to say:

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The European Union has “declared war” on plastic waste and called for all packaging to be made recyclable by 2030.

The demand follows China’s decision to put a ban on plastic waste imports. China had previously been the world’s biggest market for household waste, importing 7.3m tonnes of waste plastics from developed countries in 2016.

[tweetable] Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, the equivalent of 20,000 bottles bought every second. [/tweetable]

This article was authored by Santiago Vega.* The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of its author. 

This article was authored by Kaleigh Heard*

As an academic, I am interested in the political and health nexus of conflict, and three years ago, I was working on an academic study concerning sexual and reproductive health amongst forcibly displaced communities in Greece. As I explored the high rates of survival sex amongst young migrants, it became abundantly clear that the entire community had been left behind when it came to access to sexual and reproductive health products and education.

This article originally appeared in The Economist. 

This article was authored by Juan José Rojas-Ortiz  and Luis Alberto Caroprese*