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Systemic Risk

Systems can be affected by critical events or shocks that occur outside or within the system. Systemic risk is associated with cascading impacts that spread within and across systems and sectors via the movements of people, goods, capital and information within and across boundaries. The spread of cascading impacts can lead to potentially existential consequences and system collapse across a range of time horizons.

Latest Systemic Risk additions in the Knowledge Base

Drone image of a river flowing through a dense forest in Vanuatu.
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World needs a radical new approach to respond to global risks, urges network of experts in landmark report

Major research from the Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA), highlights interconnected risks driving global instability across the world.
Accelerating systemic risk assessment (ASRA)
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Facing global risks with honest hope: Transforming multidimensional challenges into multidimensional possibilities

This report underscores the urgent need for transformative change and sets out a bold guide to strengthen our ability to understand and tackle systemic risk.
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Risk experts test scalable solutions to tackle systemic crises facing people and planet

The Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment has launched an ambitious series of pilot projects testing tools that can enhance policy and decision-makers’ capacity to respond to complex, interconnected risks, such as climate change, pandemics, and AI.
Accelerating systemic risk assessment (ASRA)
An aerial view of damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas, USA (2017)
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How back-to-back hurricanes set off a year of compounding disasters for one city − and alarm bells about risks in a warming world

A recent National Academies consensus study looked into the compounding disasters that the region faced – both physical and socioeconomic – as storm after storm arrived during the pandemic with little time for recovery.
Conversation Media Group, the
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A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing

This report calls for the world to pay heed and respond to a range of emerging challenges that could disrupt planetary health and wellbeing.
Dhaka
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Bangladesh systemic assessment of earthquake risk

A detailed, open sub-national earthquake risk model and evaluation of seismic risk for Bangladesh at the zila and upazila levels was developed.
Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM)
United Nations Resident Coordinator - Bangladesh
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Potential climate-induced impacts on trade: the case of agricultural commodities and maritime chokepoints

This study assesses the potential macro-economic effects of climate change affecting operations in three maritime chokepoints, i.e., the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and the Turkish Straits.
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Beyond broken infrastructure – the cascading effects of natural catastrophes

Less well publicised and understood are the cascading (negative) effects of extreme events on the systems that underpin society, including energy, water and transport infrastructure
Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re)
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