This article argues "that intervening to mitigate and reverse the effects of the polycrisis challenges change agents, program designers, foundations, and evaluators to move beyond traditional project-level thinking and autonomous foundation grantmaking to engage in ...

"This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward" the "interlinked goals" of "ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet." It "explores potential pathways out of today's polycrisis - ...

In the Cascading Risks Study, author Trond Undheim seeks to create five scenarios (Climate cataclysm by 2075; World war by 2075; Growth and collapse by 2075; Runaway AI by 2075; and Synthetic biology released in ...

The November 2024 federal election in the United States could mark an abrupt inflection point not only in the evolution of the American polity but also in the direction of global society. In this report, ...

The authors argue that the Canadian government's Scientific Council, which synthesizes the best scientific evidence available for parliamentarians and members of government, needs much better evidence at its disposal to grapple with the global polycrisis. ...

The authors argue that polycrises "are associated with enormous psychological stress, especially for vulnerable groups", in part because they impair social interaction. The resulting loneliness then affects people's behaviors within a polycrisis by: increasing mental ...

The authors argue that instead of seeing the polycrisis as a failure of multilateralism, analysis should focus on the ways in which multilateralism is adapting, and how it could better adapt, to intersecting global challenges. ...

The authors argue that inadequate national and global level data prevent us from understanding the complex interactions of the polycrisis and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. They propose that applied systems thinking can address this ...

Michael Quinn Patton argues that good public policy evaluation is crucial for addressing the global polycrisis, but requires an informed citizenry. It is thus presently "engaged in a battle against misinformation, politicized knowledge, irrational decision-making, ...