The Global Risks Report 2025 presents insights from the Global Risks Perception Survey 2024-2025, which gathered input from over 900 experts worldwide. The report analyzes global risks across three timeframes—immediate (2025), short-to medium-term (2027), and long-term (2035)—to help decision-makers navigate current and future challenges.
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The authors examine the interconnected crises of emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss, and environmental change, highlighting their growing social and ecological costs. They explore how pathogens respond to global change and its implications for pandemic prevention and biodiversity conservation, emphasizing the need for targeted strategies such as pathogen surveillance, conservation interventions, and stronger health systems.
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In this article, Jürgen Scheffran explores the escalating global polycrisis arguing that current governance systems are failing to prevent catastrophic tipping points in the Earth system. He emphasizes the urgency of shifting from reactive measures to proactive strategies that foster “positive tipping points,” such as the rapid adoption of renewable energy and sustainable food systems.
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This report explores the interconnected crises and challenges of biodiversity loss, water availability and quality, food insecurity, health risks, and climate change, focusing on their interlinkages. It assesses current and future trends, emphasizing biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. The report also examines response options and governance strategies to promote coordinated decision-making, minimize trade-offs, and
This book summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop convened by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on January 17–19, 2024. The workshop focused on understanding, predicting, and preparing for climate tipping points, cascading impacts, and interacting risks in the earth system, while fostering connections within the transdisciplinary research community.
This report summarizes what is known about the risks associated with six threats and hazards: artificial intelligence, asteroid and comet impacts, sudden and severe changes to Earth’s climate, nuclear war, severe pandemics, and supervolcanoes.
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The article examines the impact of human-driven biodiversity loss and its consequences for ecosystem functions and services, emphasizing its role in the global polycrisis. It highlights the need for large-scale, real-world studies to understand biodiversity-ecosystem service linkages beyond small-scale experiments. In response to these research needs, the authors introduce a Topical Collection comprising 13 studies
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The report provides an overview of recent advancements in climate change research, highlighting key issues such as rising methane emissions, and the interconnected risks posed by climate change. It emphasizes the growing displacement of populations, intensification of extreme weather events, and compounded impacts on vulnerable groups. The report also stresses the disruption of vital Earth
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The 2024 Forum on ‘Re-Imagining Earth System Governance in an Era of Polycrisis’ convened academics, researchers, practicioners and government representatives exchanging critical insights on earth system governance in an era of polycrisis. Hosted by the Earth System Governance Project and co-hosted by Utrecht University, Canada Research Chairs, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), the
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In the Cascading Risks Study, author Trond Undheim seeks to create five scenarios (Climate cataclysm by 2075; World war by 2075; Growth and collapse by 2075; Runaway AI by 2075; and Synthetic biology released in the wild by 2075 ) with which to spur deeper conversation about the existential risks to humanity and how they
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