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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Planetary Health Check 2026
The Planetary Health Check 2026 provides an updated assessment of the nine Planetary Boundaries and finds that seven are transgressed, all with worsening trends, meaning humanity has pushed Earth outside of its Safe Operating Space. ...
Lessons from the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk 2026
This post reflects on the 2026 Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk, examining governance challenges across nuclear war, AI and the information ecosystem, pandemics, and climate change. It argues that the field is increasingly shifting its ...
Navigating a Fragmenting World Order – Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Risks for Canadian Financial Institutions
This report examines how the shift from hyperglobalisation toward a more fragmented, geoeconomic world order is creating new and interconnected risks for Canadian financial institutions. Building on a "Triple Exposure" framework of Canada's structural position, ...
Global Risk Report 2026
The United Nations' Global Risk Report 2026 examines how perceptions of global risks have shifted since 2024, drawing on a survey of 1,300 stakeholders worldwide. The report finds that political risks have moved to the ...
The Predictive Power of Systemic Risk Indicators Under Extreme Scenarios
The authors examine the predictive power of systemic risk indicators for China's listed financial institutions between 2008 and 2025. They analyse indicator performance from three angles: macro-level timeliness, market performance of financial institutions, and early ...
Limiting Overshoot – Navigating Exceedance of 1.5°C and Pathways Towards Return
UNEP's Limiting Overshoot report examines global warming's exceedance of 1.5°C, which is now expected across central estimates, and argues that the magnitude and duration of this overshoot are not predetermined. The report finds that every ...
Why I Asked Ten Resilience Leaders to Write About El Niño Together
Cedrick Moriggi highlights the growing risks posed by the developing El Niño and the need for businesses to treat it as a strategic resilience issue rather than simply an operational risk. Drawing on insights from ...
Infrastructure Links Amplify Impacts
The authors develop a modelling framework to assess how natural hazards, intensified by climate change, propagate cascading failures across interdependent critical infrastructures. The framework is applied to interdependent power and water networks in North Italy ...
The ‘Reverse Kindleberger Trap’: Reasons to Worry About the Next Financial Crisis
The author examines the risk of a future financial crisis occurring without a dominant power willing and able to stabilise the international economic order. Lubin contrasts the US response to the 2008 crisis with the ...
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Opportunities for Pathways Approaches for Adapting to Complex Climate Change Risks
The authors examine how adaptation pathways can be extended to address complex climate change risks arising from interactions among compounding hazards, cascading impacts, dynamic vulnerabilities, infrastructure interdependencies, and governance failures. They argue that conventional adaptation ...
Six Major Risks in Modern Society: Research Progress and Future Directions
The authors review six major systemic risks facing modern societies: geopolitical risks, global meteorological disaster risks, regional environmental risks, global supply chain risks, systemic financial risks, and technology-mediated societal and institutional risks. They show how ...
Reforming Global Health for an Age of Mistrust, Fragmentation and Overlapping Crises
The authors argue that global health architecture must be reformed to respond more effectively to an era of polycrisis. They propose three interlinked priorities: rebalancing power by strengthening country ownership, regional institutions, and the participation ...
Try our guided tour of essential themes in the polycrisis discussion and key texts in the Polycrisis Resource Library.
This map charts the emerging community of scholars and practitioners working on polycrisis and closely related topics.