To protect humanity from escalating global threats, here is a three-part blueprint — centered on new leadership roles, reformed business practices, and transformed data systems — that world leaders can adopt at upcoming United Nations conferences to revolutionize how we handle complex challenges.
In a world of interconnected risks, we’re ill-equipped to respond. Our systems aren’t built to handle today’s challenges. COVID-19 or the 2008 financial crisis are prime examples of how one event can disrupt the entire world, leading to unexpected long-term consequences.
Now, we’re facing a polycrisis of climate impacts, biodiversity loss, ungoverned artificial intelligence, worsening geopolitical tensions, and nuclear risks — all converging and escalating.
About the author
Ruth Richardson@RuthOpenBlue
Ruth Richardson is the inaugural executive director of ASRA, designed to contribute to the emerging field of systemic risk analysis and response with particular attention to helping decision-makers better understand, assess, and incorporate sensitivity to systemic risks into their decision-making.
