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— 16 January 2023 —

Polycrisis!

Polycrisis

Over recent years we have experienced a period of significant global change. In addition to the acceleration of climate change, extreme weather events and environmental degradation, we are living through a global pandemic, a war in Europe, rising geo-political tensions, high inflation and a cost of living crisis, energy supply and trade disruption, and widespread food insecurity.

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Jan 13 2025

Hope in the Face of the Polycrisis

by Jacob Bornstein & Mesa Sebree in Mediators Foundation…Historically, the leading causes of mass disruption across the world can be boiled down to the...
Dec 14 2024

Implications of the polycrisis for resilience in humanitarian action

Cascade Institute presents Thomas Homer-Dixon…Implications of the polycrisis for resilience in humanitarian action. A Forum for European and Central Asia National...
Nov 26 2024

A logic for the future: International relations in the age of turbulence

by Stephen Heintz in the Rockefellerl Brothers Fund…Many of the causes and consequences of present-day turmoil are transnational or even global in nature. These...
Nov 15 2024

A philanthropic theory of systems transformation for advancing equity in the polycrisis

by Michael Quinn Patton & Ruth Richardson in The Foundation Review…Intervening to mitigate and reverse the effects of the polycrisis challenges change...
Nov 13 2024
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Chartbook 330: Africa & absolute poverty in an era of polycrisis.

by Adam Tooze in Chartbook….Since 2015, the push to raise the world’s population out of the direst deprivation, has stagnated. As the World Bank authors...
Oct 22 2024

Our polycrisis demands a radically new approach to risk management

By Ruth Richardson in Open Access Government…A fundamental part of the problem is that our current tools and strategies aren’t designed to assess the types of...
Aug 26 2024
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New paper: Polycrisis Research & Action Roadmap

by the Cascade Institute, et al….The authors define the core characteristics of polycrisis (emergent harms, multiple causes, deep uncertainty, systemic context,...
Aug 10 2024

‘Polycrisis’ threatens planetary health; UN calls for innovative solutions

by Sean Mowbray in Mongabay…Environmental, technological and social challenges are colliding to create a global polycrisis. This confluence of issues is in turn...
Aug 05 2024

Are journalists reporting the global polycrisis?

by Gabi Mocatta in Earth Journalism …This study clearly establishes that the term ‘global polycrisis’ is not widely recognized, or used by...
Jul 25 2024

Second Renaissance: A time of civilizational crisis and awakening

by Sylvie Barbier, et al. in the whitepaper, The Second Renaissance is both a period and a movement: a “time between worlds”, and a growing movement of...