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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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 author argues that a new polycrisis is emerging at the intersection of climate change and cybersecurity, as extreme weather, natural disasters, and cyberattacks increasingly occur simultaneously and amplify one another. Focusing on Asia and the Pacific, the article shows how climate-driven disruptions to critical infrastructure create openings for cybercrime, particularly during moments of emergency
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This article highlights how environmental risks remain among the most severe global threats in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2026, yet their perceived urgency has shifted across time horizons. While short-term concerns are increasingly dominated by geopolitical fragmentation and misinformation, this shift does not reflect an easing of environmental threats, which are now
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This session from the 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum explores how to achieve prosperity within planetary boundaries amid accelerating climate and ecological crises. With a keynote by Johan Rockström and contributions from panelists André Hoffmann, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Sumant Sinha, Ramon Laguarta, and Andrew Forrest, the discussion highlights that seven of nine
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This report declares that the world has entered an era of Global Water Bankruptcy—a persistent post-crisis condition in which long-term water use has exceeded renewable inflows and safe depletion limits, causing irreversible degradation of water systems. It diagnoses the structural overspend of hydrological capital and calls for a new governance agenda grounded in the realities
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This report addresses the escalating risk of “planetary insolvency,” a systemic breakdown driven by accelerating climate change and ecological destabilization. It highlights that global temperatures are rising faster than predicted, partly due to the loss of “aerosol cooling”—a hidden sunshade effect caused by air pollution that has offset approximately 0.5°C of warming. The report warns
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This paper presents ten recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, spanning Earth system processes, climate impacts, and mitigation action. The record-warm years of 2023–2024 are explained by a combination of long-term greenhouse gas forcing, changes in aerosol loading, internal variability, and feedback processes leading to an elevated Earth energy imbalance —
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The Cross Current series explores the dynamics, disruptions, and discoveries shaping our world. Experts from diverse disciplines engage in cross-sector conversations to deepen understanding of the interconnected risks driving today’s polycrisis.
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The Global Environment Outlook presents a scientific assessment of the state of the global environment. It finds that climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, desertification, and pollution and waste are exacting a heavy toll on the planet, human well-being, and economies, already costing trillions of dollars annually. The report calls on all actors to recognize
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