International Organization Report

Finnish Government’s Future Report 2025

The Finnish Government’s Future Report 2025 presents a strategic foresight analysis exploring global developments up to 2045 through four possible scenarios: cooperation, tech dominance, geopolitical blocs, and collapse. It identifies 26 change drivers and 14 key uncertainties across geopolitics, technology, environment, and society, aiming to guide Finland’s long-term policy planning. The report emphasizes resilience, sustainability, […]

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Global Health at a Crossroads: WHO’s 2025 Emergency Response to Outbreaks, Conflicts and Humanitarian Crises

The author examines how 2025 has become a pivotal year for global health, marked by converging crises such as conflict, disease outbreaks, climate shocks, and displacement that are impacting fragile health systems and exposing deep structural inequities. In response, the WHO’s $1.5 billion Health Emergency Appeal underscores the urgency of coordinated, resilient action, emphasizing mobile

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Reboot Development : The Economics of a Livable Planet

This report explores how economic growth has historically been linked to rising pollution and environmental degradation. It argues that new data and technologies now enable more informed policymaking and make it possible to decouple growth from environmental harm. It examines the economic stakes of planetary health, the environmental impacts of two defining twenty-first-century trends and

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Planetary Peace for Human Security: Responses to Existential Risks in the Anthropocene

In this report, the Club of Rome argues that the current peace architecture, largely shaped by a few dominant powers in the post–World War II era, is no longer fit for purpose. A post-hegemonic, pluriversal future is needed—one that embraces diverse worldviews, rebalances global power structures, and cultivates harmony between humanity and nature. The Club

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Ability of Politicians to Act – Climate Protection in the Era of the Polycrisis

This report examines five key societal and economic developments that significantly influence the ability of politicians to act in an era of polycrisis. These include: the global polycrisis as a defining condition of our time; increasing fragmentation within society; the structural transformation of the public sphere from mass media to micro-publics; the growing limitations of

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Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Intertwined Crises, Multiple Vulnerabilities

This report examines the complex and compounding challenges facing economies in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS). It highlights how overlapping crises—such as armed conflict, institutional fragility, climate-related disasters, commodity price volatility, and global economic shocks—interact to deepen poverty, food insecurity, and deficits in human development across FCS economies. The report calls for targeted, sequenced policy

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Rethinking Societal Resilience in a Time of Polycrisis

The authors presents key insights from a scoping review on societal resilience in the context of polycrisis. It emphasises that strengthening societal resilience in the polycrisis requires a clear understanding of how interdependent and causally entangled crises interact. This understanding can inform the development of targeted policies that address the underlying drivers of vulnerability and

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Managing Emerging Critical Risks : Case Studies and Cross-Country Synthesis Report

This report provides a synthesis of national approaches to managing emerging critical risks, drawing on case studies from Ireland, Israel, Korea, and the United States. Using a bespoke maturity model, it assesses how advanced each of the four OECD countries is across key dimensions of risk governance, highlighting strengths, gaps, and opportunities for improvement in

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From Polycrisis to Metacrisis: a short introduction

The authors explore the relationship between polycrisis and metacrisis, proposing a three-layer logic model to explain their connection. While polycrisis refers to the entanglement of interconnected global crises that intensify one another, metacrisis points to the foundational conditions that generate these crises. Just as symptoms indicate an underlying illness, polycrisis is seen as a manifestation

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