The Planetary Health Check 2026 provides an updated assessment of the nine Planetary Boundaries and finds that seven are transgressed, all with worsening trends, meaning humanity has pushed Earth outside of its Safe Operating Space. The report stresses that these pressures do not act in isolation, with climate, ecosystems, freshwater, land, oceans, and nutrient cycles
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This report examines how the shift from hyperglobalisation toward a more fragmented, geoeconomic world order is creating new and interconnected risks for Canadian financial institutions. Building on a “Triple Exposure” framework of Canada’s structural position, it identifies three compounding layers of risk: operational risks arising from sanctions, regulatory conflicts, cyber threats, data restrictions, and dependence
The article argues that warming is on a trajectory to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, with scientists warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences. These include irreversible impacts such as the collapse of natural carbon sinks, the death of the Amazon rainforest, and the release
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This report examines how Anthropocene conditions shape the brain and mind, while human cognition and social processes, in turn, drive and sustain global change.
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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 the stability, resilience and life-support unctions of our planet. The report concludes that seven out of nine Planetary Boundaries have been breached: Climate Change, Change
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The report AI for a Planet Under Pressure examines the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to address the contemporary polycrisis by supporting research and decision-making across interconnected sustainability challenges. Synthesizing expert assessments and AI-supported analysis of over 8,500 publications, it evaluates AI’s role across eight critical domains: systemic shocks, Earth system dynamics, ocean stewardship, freshwater
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This report presents a systematic effort to theorize what the authors call “derailment risk,” a vicious cycle in which escalating climate impacts and the disruptive consequences of green transitions undermine climate action. Drawing on twenty global workshops and hundreds of expert contributions, the project mapped how worsening disasters, resource diversion, and political backlash can derail
This report introduces the Cascade Institute’s Stress-Trigger-Crisis model, a systemic framework that distinguishes between slow-moving stresses that erode the resilience of global systems and fast-moving trigger events that precipitate crises. It identifies 14 global systemic stresses that affect nine vital systems: climate, ecology, food, energy, economy, infrastructure, health, social order and governance, and world order.
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The report presents a global risk management framework to address climate-related challenges and introduces the Planetary Solvency risk dashboard, providing policymakers with actionable insights to guide human activity within the planet’s finite resources.
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The author examines the concept of polycrisis, exploring how multiple crises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including the “energy dilemma,” water scarcity, climate-induced migration, and persistent conflicts converge and exacerbate each other.
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