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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

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Save the Children calls for prioritization of emergency programs for children amid dangers of consecutive typhoons

Save the Children Philippines urges the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), to prioritize the development and roll-out of the Comprehensive Emergency Program for Children (CEPC)
Save the Children - Philippines
Uzbek children in Registan Square, in traditional clothes with doira
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1 in 2 children in Europe and Central Asia are exposed to high heatwave frequency, double the global average

To protect children – who are particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves – UNICEF outlines six policy recommendations for governments across the region.
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
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Documents and publications

Beat the heat: Protecting children from heatwaves in Europe and Central Asia

This report notes that children are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of heatwaves, putting them at risk of serious illness including heatstroke.
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Five ways in which heatwaves threaten child rights, from education to daily meals

As temperatures soar across the world, extreme heat is putting children’s health at risk, locking them out of education and making them increasingly anxious about the future, Save the Children said.
Save the Children - Australia
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New virtual boardgame brings households together to tackle climate change

Teenagers in Sydney’s east have joined forces with seniors and local environmental groups to create a new virtual board game that promotes activities and actions to make sustainability second nature.
Waverly Council
A group of multietnic students celebrating their graduation by throwing caps in the air closeup.
Research briefs

Climate disasters, traumatic events have long-term impacts on youths' academics

Experiencing traumatic events such as disasters may have long-term consequences for the academic progress and future food security of youth. A problem which could worsen with the increased frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change.
Pennsylvania State University
Young family with newborn baby
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The Black Summer bushfires put an enormous strain on families with young children. We can’t make the same mistakes again

Families affected by Australia’s catastrophic Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 found that preparing to evacuate was especially complex and physically difficult. Parents were under-prepared, and many did not have an evacuation plan.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Funds for world’s climate hotspots woefully neglect the needs of children, new report finds

Children are being failed by climate funding commitments, despite bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, according to a new report from members of the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative (CERI) coalition.
Save the Children International

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