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

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Verisk Maplecroft's geospatial risk data and analysis brings to life key emerging trends to enable companies, investors, and governments able to see the big picture, and act on it, will be best placed to deal with an increasingly uncertain future.
A cargo ship traverses rough seas off the coast of Shanghai
Much of the world's agricultural trade must passage through one or more maritime chokepoints. How might events relating to climate change disrupt such crucial trade arteries, and how might the impacts cascade globally and into Europe in particular?
CASCADES
Long lines at a grocery store following power outages and frigid temperatures in Texas, USA (2021)
Texas was facing a disaster – but the natural hazard was only the trigger. The failure of power grids is a technological consequence: one that can be measured, quantified and ultimately reduced.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Food market
In 2022, the early onset of heatwaves in South Asia was a unique example of compounding and cascading risks in this interconnected world.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
A woman being wheeled in a wheelchair at the 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 27 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
In a world challenged by natural hazards that are increasing in frequency and intensity, the seventh session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GP2022) could not be taking place at a more important moment.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Demolition of silos.
Disasters unfold across national boundaries, involving a range of interrelated hazards and complex dynamics. To tackle disaster risks and build resilience, it will require a united effort to move beyond working in silos.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly
The seventh Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GP2022) continued its work with another dense day, which included two plenary sessions on the Mid-term Review, a high-level dialogue, a ministerial roundtable, and other thematic sessions.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
PDRF emergency control centre
As disasters multiply and systemic risks increase, the imperative is to connect across sectors and geographies and foster partnerships so that our “new normal” enables resilience and sustainable development for all.
Connecting Business initiative
UNDRR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE)
Miyamoto International
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

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