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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Polycrisis, Energy, and Climate Change
In this webinar hosted by the European Banking Institute in collaboration with e-axes forum, Ortwin Renn, AJ Gambir, and Jo Paisley explore how systemic risks emerge from complex interdependencies, non-linear dynamics, and cascading effects that ...
The Financial System is a Giant Polycrisis Waiting to Happen
The author argues that today's financial system faces a polycrisis characterized by multiple vulnerabilities including highly leveraged Treasury basis trades, record sovereign debt levels, commercial real estate refinancing pressures, growing exposure within opaque non-bank financial ...
The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises
The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises finds that 266 million people across 47 countries faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025 — with famine confirmed simultaneously in parts of the Gaza Strip ...
Mental Health in the Time of Polycrisis: Geopolitical Determinants and Modern Psychiatry
The authors advance geopsychiatry as a framework for understanding how the compounding pressures of today's polycrisis are reshaping psychiatric vulnerabilities across communities and societies. Focusing on the emblematic and mutually reinforcing domains of wars, climate ...
Three Global Threats Stand Out in a More Uncertain and Insecure World
In this publication, GlobeScan presents the results of its latest global urgent problems survey. Results show that war and conflict, climate change, and extreme poverty form a distinct top tier of perceived urgency. Together, these ...
Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Management: Pathways for the Sendai Framework and Beyond
The article synthesises findings from the 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World, identifying key areas of attention for scientific research, policy, and practice to develop a more resilient and ...
The Urgency of Building Systemic Risk Capacity in a Polycrisis World
The authors argue that the world urgently needs to build systemic risk capacity to address an unprecedented polycrisis. They explain that modern crises are unprecedented in their scale, speed, and global interconnectedness, amplified by inequality, ...
The Geopolitical Transformation of the EU in the Era of Polycrisis: Hybrid Adaptation of a Compound Polity After 2022
This article examines the geopolitical transformation of the European Union within the context of polycrisis, explaining how interconnected pressures are reshaping European governance, its adaptive capacity, and its patterns of legitimation. The analysis demonstrates that ...
The End of Easy Globalisation
This report provides an outlook of the current global context, arguing that the period of easy globalisation is over and that the 2020s constitute a fourth systemic crisis — a "crisis of global integration" — ...
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Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Management: Pathways for the Sendai Framework and Beyond
The article synthesises findings from the 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World, identifying key areas of attention for scientific research, policy, and practice to develop a more resilient and ...
Geopolitical Fractures 2026: Where the Next Crisis Already Lives
The report maps structural fractures across the systems through which geopolitical power is actually exercised and tracks how they compound. It identifies four main fractures: a dollar system held together by lock-in rather than trust; ...
The Implications of Overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth System Tipping Elements—a Review
The authors review how minimising the magnitude and duration of any temperature overshoot beyond 1.5 °C could decrease tipping risks for multiple Earth system tipping elements. They find that fast-responding systems such as coral reefs ...
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.