Polycrisis Resource Library

The Polycrisis Resource Library is a growing collection of media that help to understand polycrisis, develop strategies to address polycrisis, and build a field of polycrisis analysis.

Planetary Health Check 2026

September 21, 2026

Levke Caesar, Boris Sakschewski, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Yuge Bai, Govindaswamy Bala, Nina Bednarsek, Tim Beringer, Arthur Beusen, Maik Billing, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Svetlana Botsyun, Johanna Braun, Denise Breitburg, Heindriken Dahlmann, Fabrice DeClerck, Donovan P. Dennis, Miriam L. Diamond, Jonathan F. Donges, Xinyu Dou, Sam Dupont, Shivani Ehrenfeucht, Axel E. Eriksson, Simon Fahrländer, Ingo Fetzer, Helen S. Findlay, Daniel J. Ford, Thomas Frölicher, Véronique Garçon, Jacob Geersen, Dieter Gerten, Nicolas Gruber, Tim Heckmann, Willem Huiskamp, Annika Jahnke, Samantha Joye, Jonas Kaiser, Niklas H. Kitzmann, Dana Kühnel, Nicole C. Laureanti, Chaohui Li, Zhu Liu, Sina Loriani, Josef Ludescher, Sabine Mathesius, Nele Matz-Lück, Jens Daniel Müller, Nicholas J. Murray, Clara Nicolai, Friederike Otto, Alex Pielaet, Dimitry Pokhotelov, Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi, Emmanuel Raju, Karoline Ramin, Lukas Röhrich, Masoud Rostami, Christian Schmidt, Anna Shalin, Jamie D. Shutler, Norman J. Steinert, Fabian Stenzel, Heicko Stuckas, Luisa Teixeira, Thejna Tharammal, Liad Ben Uri, Vili Virkki, Zhanyun Wang, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff and Johan Rockström.

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…

Lessons from the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk 2026

September 21, 2026

Adapt Research Ltd

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…

Navigating a Fragmenting World Order – Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Risks for Canadian Financial Institutions

September 16, 2026

Christopher Collins

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”…

Global Risk Report 2026

September 15, 2026

United Nations

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…

The Predictive Power of Systemic Risk Indicators Under Extreme Scenarios

September 7, 2026

Xiaohang Gan,Linhai Zhao and Hexin Zhang

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…

Limiting Overshoot – Navigating Exceedance of 1.5°C and Pathways Towards Return

September 2, 2026

United Nations Environment Programme

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….

Why I Asked Ten Resilience Leaders to Write About El Niño Together

September 2, 2026

Cedrick Moriggi

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…

Infrastructure Links Amplify Impacts

September 2, 2026

Wenhui Cui

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…

The ‘Reverse Kindleberger Trap’: Reasons to Worry About the Next Financial Crisis

September 1, 2026

David Lubin

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 Polycrisis and Emerging-Market Resilience: Climate Shocks, Financial Volatility, and Geopolitical Fragmentation as Simultaneous Stressors – Building Adaptive Macroeconomic Frameworks for Compounding Risks

August 28, 2026

Hunter Hughes

This report examines how climate shocks, financial volatility, sovereign debt pressures, and geopolitical fragmentation interact to create compounding macroeconomic risks for emerging and developing economies. It argues that these interconnected…

About the Resource Library

The Polycrisis Resource Library includes resources that:

  • Comment on the polycrisis as a concept and as a present global reality
  • Undertake similar analysis using different—but related—concepts
  • Analyze crisis interactions among multiple global systems

Though not exhaustive, the Library strives to present a diverse representation of views on different aspects of the polycrisis discussion, and will be updated as that discussion evolves. Search for resources with the keyword search bar, or by using the drop-down menus to filter for type of resource, global systems addressed, and key themes.

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