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 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…

Synergies: Understandings in a Complex World

November 13, 2025

Eugyen Suzanne Om, Ioan Fazey, Rebecca Newman, Anthony Hodgson, Mick Cooper, Esther Carmen, Ali Hodgson, Gideon Baffoe, Lee Eyre and Juan P. Cordero

The authors examine the concept of synergy and its applications in the polycrisis context. They present an integrative review of 14 disciplines and identify three key attributes of synergy: its…

World Energy Outlook 2025

November 12, 2025

International Energy Agency

The 2025 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) is published amid major shifts in global energy policies, volatile markets, and heightened geopolitical tensions. Governments are adopting divergent strategies to…

Understanding and Measuring Polycrisis

November 12, 2025

futuribles

This article features an interview by Antoine Le Bec with researcher Louis Delannoy from the Stockholm Resilience Centre about the concept of polycrisis and its growing relevance for understanding an…

Global Risk Review: November 2025

November 10, 2025

The Institute of Strategic Risk Management and Centre of Study of Wicked Problems

The November Global Risk Review Report delivers concise, strategic analysis of key geopolitical, economic and humanitarian developments shaping global stability. This edition highlights a world defined by enduring geopolitical volatility,…

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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