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.

Global Environment Outlook 7: A Future We Choose

December 9, 2025

Tamiru A. Abiye, Ana Paula Aguiar, Peter Alexander, Barbara Amon, Apoorva Arya, Ghassem Asrar,Lindsay Beevers, Medani Bhandari, Meena Bohara, Gillian Bowser, David C. Broadstock, Monday Businge,Donovan Campbell, Kateřina Černý Pixová, Lynette Cheah, Leila Dagher, Vassilis Daioglou, JonathanDavies, Mark Elder, Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue, Pierre Failler, Pedro Fidelman, Shinichiro Fujimori,Erica Brown Gaddis, Keisha Garcia, Elisabeth Gilmore, Sarah Green, Andres Guhl, Stephan Harrison,Gladys Cecilia Hernandez-Pedraza, Susie Ho, Min Hu, Madhav Bahadur Karki, Monica Kerretts-Makau,Indu K. Murthy, Mulako Kabisa, Mizanur Khan, Andrei Kirilenko, Kyung-Ah Koo, Jyotsna Krishnakumar,Joanna Kulczycka, Debora Ley, David Lopez-Carr, Paul Lucas, Clever Mafuta, Diego Martino, Sarah-LanMathez-Stiefel, Karina Miglioranza, Ruben Mnatsakanian, Rachid Mrabet, Kevin Nnanye Nwaigwe, AliceOdingo, S. Nadia Ouedraogo, Jacob Park, Jan Plesnik, Riya Rahiman, Adina Manuela Relicovschi,Henri Rueff, Aibek Samakov, Tek Sapkota, Heinz Schandl, Patrick Schröder, Jeff Seadon, Binaya RajShivakoti, George Florin Staicu, Paul Sutton, Gail Taylor, Audrone Telesiene, Catalina Turcu, BrunoTurnheim, Detlef van Vuuren, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Karen Helen Wiltshire, Xiyan Xu, Fang Yu, Pandi Zdruli, and Eric Zusman

The Global Environment Outlook presents a scientific assessment of the state of the global environment. It finds that climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, desertification, and pollution and waste are…

The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift

December 1, 2025

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

In this symposium, experts explore the Anthropocene as a scientific, cultural, political, and economic paradigm shift, examining the trajectories of the Great Acceleration and the current state of the biosphere,…

Industry as the Solution in a Polycrisis

December 1, 2025

Everything Is Changing

This episode features Christophe Yvetot, representative to the EU of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), who explores how innovation, clean tech, and global partnerships can turn today’s polycrisis…

Human Cognition and the Anthropocene

December 1, 2025

Manjana Milkoreit, Therese Lindahl, Michele-Lee Moore, Magnus Nyström, Per Olsson and Caroline Schill

This report examines how Anthropocene conditions shape the brain and mind, while human cognition and social processes, in turn, drive and sustain global change.

Planetary Health Check 2025: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet

November 29, 2025

Boris Sakschewski, Levke Caesar, Lauren S. Andersen, Max Bechthold, Lotta Bergfeld, Arthur Beusen,Maik Billing, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Svetlana Botsyun, Donovan P. Dennis, Jonathan F. Donges, Xinyu Dou, Axel Eriksson, Ingo Fetzer, Dieter Gerten, Tiina Häyhä, Sophie Hebden, Tim Heckmann, Adrian Heilemann, Willem Huiskamp, Annika Jahnke, Jonas Kaiser, Niklas H. Kitzmann, Jonathan Krönke, Dana Kühnel, Nicole C. Laureanti, Chaohui Li, Zhu Liu, Sina Loriani, Josef Ludescher, Sabine Mathesius, Albert Norström, Friederike Otto, Anja Paolucci, Dimitry Pokhotelov, Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi, Emmanuel Raju, Masoud Rostami, Sibyll Schaphoff, Christian Schmidt, Norman J. Steinert, Fabian Stenzel, Vili Virkki, Katrin Wendt-Potthoff, Nico Wunderling and Johan Rockström

The Planetary Health Check report provides an assessment of the state of our planet. The report is based on the Planetary Boundaries -the nine processes that are known to regulate…

Environmental Outlook on the Triple Planetary Crisis

November 26, 2025

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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….

Polycrisis: What’s Next For Humanity In The Age Of Acceleration?

November 25, 2025

Robert B. Tucker

Robert B. Tucker reflects on the unprecedented uncertainty shaping humanity’s future in the era of polycrisis. From the war in Ukraine and the accelerating impacts of climate change to job…

The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now it Faces a Dangerous New Reality

November 22, 2025

James Dyke and Johan Rockström

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…

Highlights from the Extreme Heat and Agriculture Report

November 21, 2025

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

This report explores the impact of extreme heat on agricultural producers and on crops, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture, and forests worldwide. Drawing on recent scientific evidence and country case studies,…

Polycrisis and Global Inequality

November 20, 2025

Mebratu Kelecha

This article interrogates the concept of ‘polycrisis’ through a decolonial, Global South-centered lens, arguing that current polycrisis discourse inadequately addresses entrenched global inequalities and power asymmetries. It contends that the…

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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