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

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 risk. Drawing on insights from resilience leaders across major companies convened through the UNDRR Corporate Chief Resilience Officers Network, he argues that El Niño could

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

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 2008 crisis with the conditions likely to shape a Trump-era crisis, citing the administration’s selective and transactional approach to currency swap arrangements, interventions by

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World Economic Forum: Time to Retire “Polycrisis” for “Polytunity”

This edited conversation from the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Summer Davos examines Yuen Yuen Ang’s proposal to reframe “polycrisis” as “polytunity”, emphasising the opportunities for transformation that can emerge when multiple global systems experience disruption simultaneously. Yuen Yuen Ang argues that the concept of polycrisis can encourage a fear-driven and paralysing view of interconnected threats,

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Leaders Should Plan for Colliding Risks, Not Isolated Crises. Here’s Why

This article argues that businesses must move beyond managing individual threats and prepare for the cascading, compounding, and colliding effects of interconnected global risks. It highlights geopolitics, climate change, and artificial intelligence as systemic risk multipliers that can interact through concentrated supply chains, critical infrastructure, energy systems, and digital networks, while traditional shock absorbers such

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Reforming Global Health for an Age of Mistrust, Fragmentation and Overlapping Crises

The authors argue that global health architecture must be reformed to respond more effectively to an era of polycrisis. They propose three interlinked priorities: rebalancing power by strengthening country ownership, regional institutions, and the participation of affected communities; reinforcing health systems by moving beyond fragmented, disease-specific approaches and building capacity to address interconnected and emerging

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Polycrisis and Regeneration: Latin America Facing the Opportunity to Build New Futures

This article argues that Latin America occupies a distinctive but tension-filled position in the global polycrisis, holding ecologically strategic territories such as the Amazon, the Andean systems, and major wetlands while sustaining economies heavily dependent on extractive models that pressure those same systems. The author contends that climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, and pollution

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Unlearning Modernity: Remaking Science Education in the Anthropocene

This comment argues that science education remains rooted in modernist assumptions of control, separability, and human exceptionalism, even as it is often framed as a response to the Anthropocene, despite emerging scientific fields increasingly emphasising relationality, uncertainty, and more-than-human forms of intelligence. Drawing on developments in areas such as holobiont biology, quantum science, and anticolonial

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The Fifth Food Mega-shock in 20 Years? How to Stop these Crises for Good

This article argues that the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz is driving a fifth global food mega-shock in less than two decades by simultaneously disrupting energy supplies, fertilizer markets, food production, and humanitarian assistance. The author explains how these interconnected pressures are unfolding in cascading phases, producing rising food prices and increasing hunger over

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Can We Eat Our Way Out of Polycrisis?

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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