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Displaying 14 of about 14 resultsThis UNCTAD rapid assessment looks into the situation of interntional shipping amid disruptions that have the potential to reshape global maritime networks and reconfigure the world trading map. Two months into 2024, the Red Sea and Suez Canal disruption that began in November 2023 continues to unfold, putting at risk the free movement of goods and inte…
Last week’s destructive storm took Victoria by surprise. As winds of up to 150 kilometres an hour raced through the state, transmission towers near Geelong toppled and the grid went into chaos.At its worst, almost one in five Victorian homes were left without electricity while the main transmission system came close to collapse.That makes it comparable…
Hot off the press!Ignite your curiosity with the following pieces highlighting thirteen key areas impacted by the cascading risks of wildfires. Our Preventionweb editors have carefully curated the following articles and publications to spark discussions on systemic risk. These selections include pieces from researchers who are blazing the trail, news fr…
This publication provides an analysis of how climate change boosted temperatures worldwide between December 2023 and February 2024. Primarily by burning coal, oil, and natural gas, humans have raised the temperature of the planet. Scientists report that the average temperature in 2023 was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than early-industrial levels (1850-190…
Impacts from natural hazards, climate change and other human-generated shocks do not occur in isolation.Risks from these types of events – and our responses to them – exhibit complex characteristics that are felt across sectors and national borders. The effects of one impact can trigger another impact, sometimes in a place that is far from the original…
This study provides critical information for understanding the source and frequency of compound flooding across the Southeast Atlantic Coast of the United States. Subtropical coastlines are impacted by both tropical and extratropical cyclones. While both may lead to substantial damage to coastal communities, it is difficult to determine the contribution…
Last week, Texas’s Windy Deuce Fire, one of several large fires that broke out in the state’s panhandle region, passed within a few miles of a nuclear weapons facility and necessitated an emergency evacuation of nonessential employees. The immediate threat of wildfire to the Pantex nuclear facility, at which nuclear weapons are assembled and disassemble…
The world is currently experiencing a worsening polycrisis, caused by an entanglement and nonlinear amplification of many of the world’s crises, like the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and armed conflicts such as Russia’s war on Ukraine. This is the result of a new paper authored by an international team of scientists, including PIK Director Johan Ro…
ASRA has co-developed a set of Principles for Systemic Risk Assessment and Response to accelerate awareness of systemic risks and to guide collective, transformative action. To mark its one-year anniversary, ASRA is making the set and a practical guide to implementation available to other risk practitioners.The principles—from a commitment to universal…
The Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA) celebrates its one-year anniversary and announces its official launch with eminent new appointments to its Steering Committee and the release of a practical, principles-based guide to navigating risk in a polycrisis world. ASRA mobilizes a global, transdisciplinary network of 50+ risk practitioner…
The magnitude of overlapping shipping disruptionsFor the first time, the world faces simultaneous disruptions in two major global maritime trade waterways, with far-reaching implications for inflation and food and energy security.Since November 2023, escalating attacks on ships in the Red Sea have been compounding disruptions in the Black Sea caused by…
Climate change poses a serious threat to the development of countries and can have material impacts on sovereign risk. Sovereign risk refers to the probability that a country may not be able to pay its debts. However, since the global financial crisis, interactions between fiscal balances, public and private debt, and the financial sector have proven to…
AboutThe Multi-Risk Project will host the International Multi-Risk Seminar on April 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2024, in the auditorium of the International Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). This event aims to qualify and disseminate debates in scenarios involving multiple risks.The complete schedule can be accessed…
A study recently published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences reveals the unprecedented nature of an anticyclonic anomaly that occurred over Northeast Asia in July 2021. It not only played a pivotal role in the catastrophic extreme precipitation experienced in Henan province in central China but also caused a prolonged and intense marine heatwave…