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. The world is in a polycrisis—the actualization of many risks at once, which overlap and interact, and affect entire systems. What is unique about this moment is that this polycrisis is now truly planetary in nature, as our environmental footprint has increased beyond safe limits.

The report's recommendations highlight the agency to drive change by unlocking institutional innovation, reorienting financial flows, facilitating meaningful public participation, and catalyzing new social practices. Although the exact sequence of events that will lead to the next great global shock is not known, we can start now to ensure our systems and societies are better equipped to mitigate, prepare for, adapt to, and even transform away from future crises.