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Report on Recent Reports #4, Winter 2022-2023
Polycrisis: Probable; Remedies: Possible A wide variety of organizations and individuals have recently warned of multiple global crises. Some have used the term “polycrisis,” defined by the Cascade Institute...
Development, Disasters, Energy, Environment, Risks, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals
2019 Global Health Security Index
“Intended as a key resource in the face of increasing risks of high-consequence and globally catastrophic biological events.” Provides 195 country profiles on health security and capabilities across six categories,...
Arctic Warming: A QuickLook at Concerned Organizations
Arctic climate change. The Arctic is more affected by global warming than any other place on earth, resulting in unprecedented physical, social, economic, and political transformations. Concern for Arctic change...
Asia Investor Group on Climate Change
AIGCC is "a project within the Investor Group on Climate Change" based in Australia/New Zealand (IGCC). The group of investors "aims to create awareness among Asia’s asset owners and financial...
Association of Climate Change Officers
It aims to "enable all organizations to be more sustainable by building enterprise capacity and empowering leadership to respond to climate change" To this end, it "defines, develops and supports...
Book Review: Come On! A Report to the Club of Rome: New Frontiers
The full Review has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 4 and is available here: Book Review of Come On! (May 2018) Introduction Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population...
Boston Common Asset Management
A sustainable "investment manager and a leader in global impact initiatives dedicated to the pursuit of financial return and social change." They mostly manage investments for "endowments, foundations, mission-driven organizations,...
Center for Climate and Security
This non-partisan institute is part of the Council on Strategic Risks. Its vision is to create “a climate-resilient world…which recognizes that climate change risks are unprecedented in human history, and...
Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk
Is a center affiliated with Penn State University’s Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science. It aims at making the most out of every input and forecast related to weather or...
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
A multidisciplinary research center within the University of Cambridge aimed at the study and mitigation of technology’s risk to human existence. Humanity’s technological power brings about novel threats such as...
ClearView Energy Partners
An independent research firm identifiying and quantifiying "non-fundamental energy risks for financial investors and corporate strategists" while relying "on firsthand experience and proprietary models to examine the actors, criteria and...
Climate Change Knowledge Portal
It is a central hub of information, data, and reports about worldwide climate. The World Bank Group designed the CCKP as a tool for knowledge and learning to compare, chart,...
Climate Change-Fueled Weather Disasters: Costs to State and Local Economies
Looks into the "frequency, severity, damage — and costs — from severe weather events". The EDF finds a steadily worsening trend due to the effects of man-made climate change. Weather-based...
Climate Impact Lab
A collaboration of 30 climate scientists, economists, computational experts, researchers, analysts, and students from some of the nation’s leading research institutions (largely from the University of Chicago and the UC-Berkeley)...
Consilience Project
The Civilization Research Institute (CRI) publishes the Consilience Project to promote "critical conversations for the future of human civilization." A think tank dedicated to reducing systemic fragility and advancing new...
Council on Strategic Risks
A nonprofit, non-partisan security policy institute devoted to anticipating, analyzing, and addressing core systemic risks to security in the 21st century, with special examination of the ways in which these...
COVID-19 Waste Management Factsheets
Masks, gloves, gowns, and other protective equipment produced by hospitals, healthcare facilities, and individuals can be infected with the virus, leading to public health risks. Nine 1-2p Factsheets are available....
Department of Defense Climate Risk Analysis
The Department of Defense Climate Risk Analysis describes how climate change is modifying the geostrategic, operational, and tactical landscape. This has significant consequences for the U.S. national security and defense....
Environmental Health Perspectives
The open access "monthly journal of environmental health research and news published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences." It publishes "high-quality original research, reviews, and commentaries...
Equator Principles Association
Equator Principles Association (2010; UK; 94 financial institutions from 37 countries; equator-principles.com) A risk management framework adopted by financial institutions, to determine, assess and manage environmental and social risk in...