The author argues that achieving major policy wins on global catastrophic risk requires political organising: the process by which groups of citizens come together to build the capacity for sustained, sophisticated civic advocacy. Drawing on the 1980s Nuclear Freeze Campaign as a case study, the author contends that decentralised structures that empower local groups and […]
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The Global Justice Report proposes a fully quantified plan for grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability, tracing an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100. The authors argue that reconciling planetary habitability with high well-being for all is possible, but only through an integrated strategy that simultaneously combines fast decarbonisation
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This paper explores how policy responses to the polycrisis seek to reshape Global Production Networks, encouraging new forms of decoupling and recoupling. The author focuses on the EU’s trade policy responses to the climate crisis, especially carbon tariffs and the deforestation regulation. These new measures represent a shift from traditional trade policy and a conscious
This introduction to the special issue “Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis” examines how the contemporary polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ongoing colonial legacies challenges conventional understandings of time and temporality. The authors argue that environmental crises cannot be fully understood as technical or future-oriented problems but must be situated within the long historical
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This review argues that nanostructured sensors can play an important role in addressing the polycrisis, including climate instability, antimicrobial resistance, pandemics, and emerging technological disruptions, but that their effectiveness is limited by the complexity and scale of the data they generate. The authors propose unsupervised machine intelligence as a critical bridge between advanced sensing materials
In this seminar, Dr. Sara Scherr examines integrated landscape management (ILM) as a response to the ongoing polycrisis, arguing that it integrates healthy nature, regenerative economies, human well-being, and social solidarity in ways that empower local actors. Dr.Scherr finds that multi-stakeholder landscape partnerships have proliferated over recent decades, supported by growing knowledge, planning tools, and
This article argues that the polycrisis concepts provides an important lens for understanding contemporary employment relations. The authors suggest that the employment relationship is both a key site where the impacts of overlapping crises are experienced and a central mechanism through which capitalist economies generate profit and reproduce systemic vulnerabilities. Examining employment relations across different
The author argues that food system transformation represents one of the most connected and pliable nexus interventions available for navigating today’s polycrisis, drawing on historical research into the Black Death era — a polycrisis-like period in which climate instability, food system disruptions, conflict, and disease formed a vicious spiral — to demonstrate that ostensibly localised
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The author argues that the contemporary polycrisis, characterized by escalating geopolitical tensions, ecological breakdown, growing inequality, and democratic fragility, requires a fundamental rethinking of peace. Rather than defining peace solely as the absence of war, the article advances the concept of planetary peace, a holistic framework that links peace within individuals, among societies, and with
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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 challenge established governance, regulatory, and analytical frameworks. The panel examines why traditional risk assessment tools struggle under deep uncertainty and
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