Multiple global crises are worsening one another to produce what many policymakers, scholars, and commentators call a “polycrisis.” This website is a hub that helps this emerging community better understand and address the intersecting crises affecting humanity.
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Environmental Outlook on the Triple Planetary Crisis
This OECD Environmental Outlook examines the interlocking trends and drivers of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, projects how they will evolve through mid-century, and analyzes policy synergies and trade-offs. It also provides a roadmap ...
The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now it Faces a Dangerous New Reality
The authors reflect on the decade since the 2015 Paris Agreement and conclude that humanity has failed to avert dangerous climate change, with global warming set to exceed 1.5°C and enter an overshoot phase within ...
Synergies: Understandings in a Complex World
The authors examine the concept of synergy and its applications in the polycrisis context. They present an integrative review of 14 disciplines and identify three key attributes of synergy: its magnitudes, spatial and temporal scales, ...
World Energy Outlook 2025
The 2025 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) is published amid major shifts in global energy policies, volatile markets, and heightened geopolitical tensions. Governments are adopting divergent strategies to address energy security, affordability, and ...
Understanding and Measuring Polycrisis
This article features an interview by Antoine Le Bec with researcher Louis Delannoy from the Stockholm Resilience Centre about the concept of polycrisis and its growing relevance for understanding an increasingly unstable world. Delannoy defines ...
Global Risk Review: November 2025
The November Global Risk Review Report delivers concise, strategic analysis of key geopolitical, economic and humanitarian developments shaping global stability. This edition highlights a world defined by enduring geopolitical volatility, systemic fragility and accelerating power ...
We’re In a New Everything-Is-Connected Epoch. But What to Call It?
In this article, Thomas L. Friedman draws on the concept of the “Polycene”, a new epoch characterized by the convergence of multiple accelerating forces, including artificial intelligence, climate change, geopolitical realignment, and social transformation. Friedman ...
Mapping the Hope Attractor: A Conversation with Thomas- Homer Dixon
In this conversation, Thomas Homer-Dixon introduces the Cascade Institute’s Polycrisis Core Model (PCM), a novel framework designed to map and analyse interactions among 11 critical global systems, each with multiple potential future states. The model ...
Coping with Polycrisis and Systemic Risks: New Approaches to Assessment and Governance
In this webinar, hosted by the World Academy of Art and Science and its EXTRA initiative, experts explored the interconnected nature of global crises and the systemic risks emerging from complex, cascading interactions across ecological, ...
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We’re In a New Everything-Is-Connected Epoch. But What to Call It?
In this article, Thomas L. Friedman draws on the concept of the “Polycene”, a new epoch characterized by the convergence of multiple accelerating forces, including artificial intelligence, climate change, geopolitical realignment, and social transformation. Friedman ...
Mapping the Hope Attractor: A Conversation with Thomas- Homer Dixon
In this conversation, Thomas Homer-Dixon introduces the Cascade Institute’s Polycrisis Core Model (PCM), a novel framework designed to map and analyse interactions among 11 critical global systems, each with multiple potential future states. The model ...
Derailment Risk
This report presents a systematic effort to theorize what the authors call “derailment risk,” a vicious cycle in which escalating climate impacts and the disruptive consequences of green transitions undermine climate action. Drawing on twenty ...
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This map charts the emerging community of scholars and practitioners working on polycrisis and closely related topics.