TS1-1: Understanding systemic risk in the age of polycrisis

In the age of polycrisis, where multiple risks can actualize at once, and affect entire systems from local to national to global levels, understanding and addressing systemic risks has become indispensable to ensuring a safe, prosperous and resilient future. This session will showcase how Governments are evolving risk understanding systems to incorporate systems thinking, and the critical role that local stakeholders and community members can play in advancing the important area of understanding risk.

UNDRR Focal Points

• Ms. Rhea Katsanakis
• Mr. Tejas Tamobhid Patnaik

Organizing Team experts

• Dr. Robert Sakic Trogrlic, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Dr. Joshua DeVincenzo, Columbia University, Climate School, National Center for Disaster Preparedness  
• Executive Director Jared Brown, Global Shield
• Prof. Niina Käyhkö, University of Turku, Finland
• Mr. Chadi Abdallah, CNRS- Lebanon; Arab-STAG  
• Ms. Annegien Tijssen, Deltares; the Netherlands
• Ms. Elene Samukashvili, UNMGCY
• Ms. Johanna Zwahlen, Zoï Environment Network / Adaptation at Altitude programme

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