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For 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.

Disruptions that affect international shipping have the potential to reshape global maritime networks and reconfigure the world trading map. This UNCTAD rapid assessment looks into the situation of global maritime networks and shipping amid crisis.

The power outage that hit Victoria could have been much worse. It speaks to the urgent need to harden power grids against the more frequent extreme weather expected under climate change.

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.

With climate change and an incipient El Niño driving up temperatures, 2024 is likely to eclipse 2023 as the hottest year ever, meteorologists project.

This publication uses a systemic risk impact pathway (SRIP) model to gain data-driven insights on the drivers of systemic risk and the impacts on food insecurity in Somalia.

This report is a companion piece to the Major Incidents Report 2022–23, drawing upon some of these findings.

This policy brief summarises learnings from the first 1.5 years of the MYRIAD_EU project. The project is designed to catalyse the paradigm shift required to move towards a multi-risk, multi-sector, systemic approach to risk assessment and management.