Systemic risk

This report presents the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) approach which helps understand cities as ‘complex systems’.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected everything. Its impact was so severe that it created what the UK government calls a “whole-system civil emergency”. Now, a new report finds worrying similarities to an even greater threat: climate change.

This Call to Action is a reminder to policymakers to act decisively and urgently to manage systemic risk, by committing to and implementing, national policy reforms consistent with 1.5°C carbon budgets and development pathways.

Complex risk necessitates a shift in how development actors approach international development and climate resilience programs and policies, particularly by integrating comprehensive risk frameworks that account for interdependencies in critical systems.

Major research from the Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA), highlights interconnected risks driving global instability across the world.

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 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.

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.