Draft, not yet released. In stewardship review. Not indexed until the first approved release.

Strategic Systems Report 2026: Global Polycrisis and Cascading Systems Risk

The first annual edition of the polycrisis report. It fixes the 2026 reference state of entangled global risk, and the model, voice and positions, against which the 2027 edition and every strategic report will be read.

Read the executive summaryDownload PDF · A4 · 833 KB · 100 pagesUS Letter, data and citation filesCite this report
Editor
Saeed Valadbaygi
Meja
GCRI Systems Evidence
Publisher of record
GCRI for the Nexus Consortium
Penutupan bukti
30 September 2026
Status
Draft in stewardship review; not yet released
LaporanSR-01

Sistem Strategis

Global Polycrisis 2026

Edisi Dasar 2026NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINEGCRI for the Nexus Consortium
Temuan12each with its status and source
Sumber48numbered, editor first
Chapters and annexes11plus the executive summary
Indikator19in the data appendix, with CSV and JSON

01 · Status

Status and boundaries.

This edition governs nothing and confers no certification. It records where the global evidence stood at the 2026 baseline. Every value resolves to its source or to its stated method; where neither exists, the edition says so instead of filling the gap.

Publication ID
NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Series alias
NR-STR-SR-01-2026-BL
Identifier status
Series alias and evidence cut are provisional until the owner confirms them. No UNI is minted.
Family · class
Strategic Sistem Report SR-01 · Baseline Edition (inaugural annual)
Lifecycle state
◌ DRAFT, review copy before stewardship review
Publication date
October 2026
Penutupan bukti
30 September 2026 · cut DC-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-B0
Reproduksibilitas
sourced values cited; analytical values reproducible from stated parameters
Access class
PUBLIC-SAFE DERIVATIVE
Tinjauan
five passes scheduled before release (in Annex C)
Designed for
strategic planning · risiko global screening · portfolio discussion · research · multilateral dialogue · public communication
Bukan untuk
government assessment · official warning · rating · certification · investment advice · underwriting · procurement · operational authorisation
Registri
record NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE · current-version pointer at release
Koreksi
registry correction pathway · history in Annex C
Penggunaan AI
disclosed in Annex C
Next edition
NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2027-v1.0.0 · 2027 annual
Lisensi
text CC BY 4.0 · data on the terms of each source
Desk identifier
NR-GCRI-SR-01-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Collection
NR-COL-2026-BASELINE

02 · Key messages

What the edition finds.

Five of the questions the edition answers, each with its status. The executive summary has all of them, with their sources.

  1. 1.43 °C above 1850–1900 in 2025, after a record 1.55 °C in 2024; 2023–2025 averaged 1.48 °C.

    How warm is the world?Dilaporkan

  2. Insured losses exceeded US$100 billion for the sixth year running; 2025 losses were driven by floods, storms and wildfires.

    Are disaster losses rising?Dilaporkan

  3. Half of 2025 losses were uninsured; in Asia almost nine-tenths were.

    Who carries the losses?Dilaporkan

  4. No: energy CO₂ set a record in 2024, although clean power supplied about 41% of electricity.

    Are emissions falling?Dilaporkan

  5. 673 million people faced hunger in 2024; concurrent breadbasket failure is a rising risiko ekor.

    Is the food system stable?Dilaporkan

All key messages and the headline finding

03 · Contents

Eight chapters and three annexes.

  1. ·

    Executive summary

    The edition on a few pages: the abstract, the key messages, the headline finding and what each steward reads in it.

  2. 1

    Chapter 1. Crises are entangled, not stacked

    Part I describes sistem and their couplings.

  3. 2

    Chapter 2. Key findings

    Twelve findings carry the global baseline.

  4. 3

    Chapter 3. Systems and sectors at baseline

  5. 4

    Chapter 4. Risks and capability

    Empat risiko global objects open the portfolio.

  6. 5

    Chapter 5. Concurrent breadbasket shortfall and energy price shock

    A conditional statement under stated assumptions, never a prediction.

  7. 6

    Chapter 6. Readings from the other desks

    The global baseline is read through each steward’s lens, then once as a whole.

  8. 7

    Chapter 7. The 2027 agenda

    Eight bounded questions open the 2027 polycrisis agenda.

  9. 8

    Chapter 8. Systems in depth

    One section per system: its state at evidence close, its exposures and what the operational series will watch.

  10. A

    Annex A. Methodology

    How the edition was made: methods, the model card, the evidence cut and its age, the acceptance record and the glossary.

  11. B

    Annex B. Data appendix

    The indicator set with its sources, the source registers, the licences of every kind of material and the formats of the edition.

  12. C

    Annex C. References and record

    Every source the edition rests on, the publication record, the corrections log and the open record.

List of figures (4)
  1. S.1Natural-disaster losses in 2025 (US$ billion)
  2. 1.1Where did 2025’s natural-disaster losses fall? Overall losses by region (US$ billion)
  3. 1.2Couplings across the six sectors
  4. 2.1Natural-disaster losses in 2025 (US$ billion)
List of tables (43)
  1. 1.1Coupling matrix: from the row system to the column system
  2. 1.2Pairs of systems where both directions are rated strong
  3. 3.1Each domain read in words, not scored
  4. 3.2Sectors: baseline evidence and the exposure to watch
  5. 4.1Capabilities on the ladder of evidence: listed, exists, demonstrated, tested
  6. 6.12027 polycrisis readiness pack
  7. 6.2Standards and regulatory watch
  8. 6.3Assessments and peer-reviewed science
  9. 6.4Institutional flagships
  10. 6.5UN and multilateral statistics
  11. 6.6Industry, energy and nature data
  12. 7.1Objects proposed for the first operational quarter
  13. 7.2Universe 2027, evidence pack for the polycrisis candidate mission
  14. 7.3Handoffs and routing
  15. 7.4Routing rules by publication class
  16. 7.5Feeds watched from 2027
  17. 7.6Signals at baseline
  18. 8.1Evidence at baseline
  19. 8.2Evidence at baseline
  20. 8.3Evidence at baseline
  21. 8.4Evidence at baseline
  22. 8.5Evidence at baseline
  23. A.1Metode
  24. A.2Coupling strength scale (matrix and model card)
  25. A.3Status grammar
  26. A.4From the baseline cut to the federation cut
  27. A.5Evidence age and coverage
  28. A.6Coverage by system at baseline
  29. A.7Quality dimensions at baseline
  30. A.8Publication acceptance record
  31. A.9The status every value carries
  32. A.10Series terms
  33. A.11Abbreviations used in this edition
  34. A.12Technical annex
  35. B.1Global baseline indicator set
  36. B.2Global baseline indicator set
  37. B.3Global source register
  38. B.4Regional reading, ten regional clusters
  39. B.5How countries appear in the global edition
  40. B.6National Baseline Editions in the 2026 programme
  41. B.7Licences of each kind of material
  42. B.8This edition in every format
  43. C.1Release path for this version

04 · GCRI reading

How GCRI reads this edition.

The evidence supports an entangled reading of risiko global. Warming and losses set records in the same years; frequency, not one peak event, drives losses; and the five core sistem share dependence on water, energy and land. Evidence is strongest for climate and losses, and weakest for digital dependencies and tipping proximity.

CLI-001 · FIN-002 · CLI-010 · SYS-012

Chapter 6, lenses and readings

05 · Publication record

Version, dates and contributors.

The identity of this edition as its title pages record it. A review copy has no DOI; the DOI is issued at deposit.

Publication ID
NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Versi
1.0.0, review copy
Edition date
Penutupan bukti
Status
Draft under stewardship review; not yet released
Editor
Saeed Valadbaygi
Publisher of record
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Licence of the text
CC BY 4.0
DOI
Issued at deposit, on release
Previous edition
none, first edition of the series
Next edition
NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2027-v1.0.0

Contributors

PeranKontribusiBy
ConceptualisationSeries architecture and the global system modelS. Valadbaygi (ed.)
MetodologiBaseline method, dependency scoring and status grammarLaporan editorial team, GCRI
Investigation · data curationSource review of global assessments, UN statistics and loss data to evidence closeReports editorial team, GCRI
Writing, original draftAll chapters; AI-assisted drafting, disclosed belowEditor · editorial team
Writing, review and editingFive review passes before releaseSteward reviewers (scheduled)
VisualisationPages, figures and tables in the Nexus design standardReports editorial team, GCRI
PengawasanEdition governance, registry record and depositS. Valadbaygi (ed.)

Peninjauan sebelum rilis

LintasanLingkupByStatus
1Scientific and technicalGCRI · key TDijadwalkan
2Reproducibility of analytical valuesGCRI · key TDijadwalkan
3Public meaning and claimsThe Global Risks Forum (GRF) · key MDijadwalkan
4Finance-readiness boundaryThe Global Risks Alliance (GRA) · key FDijadwalkan
5Regional context and safeguardsRegional consortia · key NDijadwalkan

AI assistance was used for drafting, consistency checks and page composition. Every number, citation and status label was checked against its source by the editorial team before freeze. No AI system is recorded as an author or a reviewer, and no AI output is printed as fact without a source.

06 · Downloads

Read it in print, take the data.

Draft, not yet releasedReview copies of a draft in stewardship review. The released edition carries its DOI and replaces them.

  • Cetak

    • PDF, A4

      The designed print edition, A4: cover, imprint and licence, how to cite, contents with page numbers, every chapter, figure, table and annex.

      PDF100 pages833 KBTagged, with bookmarks

      SHA-256 85b9105cfcc8d8f92642e8cb916d1c284cd645fd9ce4696ecf632a194121676b

      Unduh: PDF, A4

    • PDF, US Letter

      The designed print edition, US Letter: cover, imprint and licence, how to cite, contents with page numbers, every chapter, figure, table and annex.

      PDF106 pages838 KBTagged, with bookmarks

      SHA-256 b7fc6db0cfdab29a154cfda58f94c59fd6cb24c7efa96c2e9fa3e9a688efe316

      Unduh: PDF, US Letter

  • Web edition

  • Data bundle

    • Indicators, CSV

      19 indicators with unit, year, status and source

      NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-indicators.csv1 KB

      SHA-256 3cf7dbb2e43df3c56ffcd533134dc4f0974de715bf3ba7f0852be93463ac5315

      Unduh: Indicators, CSV

    • Indicators, JSON

      The same indicators with the edition’s identity and licence

      NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-indicators.json2 KB

      SHA-256 6b2e9d53731a8385004dde83a1e56891c3cb3d0d5e395cc7e49484f3f2760fe4

      Unduh: Indicators, JSON

    • Findings, CSV

      12 findings with status, evidence-quality level and references

      NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-findings.csv2 KB

      SHA-256 f92428fbe668939d378a00ecd91d575a45587f168d8e64ce7cee347da4b44910

      Unduh: Findings, CSV

  • Citation files

    • Citation, BibTeX

      For LaTeX and reference managers

      NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.bib1 KB

      SHA-256 876d14304ab9ede4f3aced81714ca6761310996bd5d3a10be58f687ff9d23ca9

      Unduh: Citation, BibTeX

    • Citation, RIS

      For Zotero, EndNote and Mendeley

      NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.ris1 KB

      SHA-256 b2f135964accb9e82af6a790e12e199ceee5aab447ac051779936d72e411a9e6

      Unduh: Citation, RIS

    • Citation, CITATION.cff

      Citation File Format 1.2.0, for GitHub, Zenodo and software catalogues

      NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.cff1 KB

      SHA-256 9d6e6c457b886e2fe909eeb0a33f20ae8033cbd475def3d2beaa34f7b46ca5de

      Unduh: Citation, CITATION.cff

Check a file with its SHA-256: shasum -a 256 <file> (macOS, Linux) or Get-FileHash <file> (Windows). Text, tables and figures by Nexus: CC BY 4.0; each source keeps its own licence.

07 · Cite

Cite this report.

This edition is a draft in stewardship review. Cite it as a draft; the DOI and the UNI are issued at deposit, and the citation then names them.
Catalogue keyNR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE

Standards applied to NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE

Cite as

S. Valadbaygi (ed.), Strategic Systems Report 2026: Global Polycrisis and Cascading Systems Risk. Reports, Baseline Edition 2026. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium, Toronto, 2026. NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE. DOI at deposit.

Applied

NS-1 catalogue identity (a UNI is allocated at deposit and resolves to this record), NS-2 citation and attribution, NS-3b dataset metadata, NS-5 figures and maps, NS-12 software and AI disclosure.

Pemantauan

Corrections are new versions with a published notice; the earlier version stays resolvable.

An attestation is evidence, not a certificate. Nexus Standards parts are preparatory working drafts (2026).

APA 7
Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). Strategic Systems Report 2026: Global Polycrisis and Cascading Systems Risk (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/sr-01/
Chicago
Valadbaygi, Saeed, ed. Strategic Systems Report 2026: Global Polycrisis and Cascading Systems Risk. Baseline Edition 2026. Nexus Reports NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE. Draft under review. Toronto: The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), 2026. https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/sr-01/.
BibTeX
@techreport{NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE,
  editor      = {Valadbaygi, Saeed},
  title       = {{Strategic Systems Report 2026: Global Polycrisis and Cascading Systems Risk}},
  institution = {The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)},
  address     = {Toronto},
  year        = {2026},
  type        = {Nexus Reports, Baseline Edition 2026},
  number      = {NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE},
  note        = {Draft under stewardship review; not yet released. DOI assigned at deposit},
  url         = {https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/sr-01/}
}
RIS
TY  - RPRT
ED  - Valadbaygi, Saeed
TI  - Strategic Systems Report 2026: Global Polycrisis and Cascading Systems Risk
T3  - Nexus Reports
ET  - Baseline Edition 2026
PY  - 2026
PB  - The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
CY  - Toronto
SN  - NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE
UR  - https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/sr-01/
N1  - Draft under stewardship review; not yet released. DOI assigned at deposit.
LA  - en
ER  -
NR-CIT-1 (house style)
S. Valadbaygi (ed.), Strategic Systems Report 2026: Global Polycrisis and Cascading Systems Risk. Nexus Reports, Baseline Edition 2026. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium, Toronto, 2026. NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE. DOI at deposit.
LaporanBerkontribusi

Send evidence or a correction on Global Polycrisis.

Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication, written by six desks. This page sits with the GCRI Sistem Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). Apa yang Anda ketahui tentang topik ini dapat menjadi bukti, studi kasus, atau koreksi pada edisi berikutnya, dengan mencantumkan nama Anda dan diterbitkan di bawah CC BY 4.0 jika itu karya Anda sendiri. Jika terkirim ke meja yang salah, kiriman diteruskan, bukan ditolak.

Meja Bukti Sistem GCRISistem Strategis
Contribution form · reports.contribution.gcri

Jangan pernah mengirim data pribadi, rincian infrastruktur sensitif, atau apa pun yang tidak berhak Anda bagikan. Kontribusi ditinjau sebelum digunakan. Mengirimkannya tidak memberikan hak kepenulisan atau editorial, dan sponsor tidak pernah membeli sebuah temuan.

Reports · GCRI

Bring evidence to the next edition.

Every quarter closes on a sealed evidence cut. A correction, a source or a method received before the cut is reviewed for that edition.

BerkontribusiLog koreksi
  • NR-STRATEGIC-POLYCRISIS-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE
  • CC BY 4.0
  • Evidence close 30 September 2026

CC BY 4.0 Free to read. Text and figures: CC BY 4.0. Data: CC0 1.0. Authors keep copyright. Published by GCRI Canada.

Your role here

What you can do from this page.

  • ReaderNew to the reports? A short guide to reading an edition.Mulai di sini
  • KontributorYour contributions to this edition and the reviews open on it are listed below the edition.Berkontribusi
  • PeninjauReview for this desk; verified reviews are credited.Menjadi peninjau
  • Editor, steward or boardQueues, decisions and production are in the workspace.My workspace

This edition

Contributions and reviews on SR-01

Open contributions to this edition
0
Reviews open on this edition
0

Open your account on this site to see your own contributions to this edition and any review invited from you.

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation

Science · evidence · measurement

Not for profit

Our articles, maps and twins are free to read and free to republish. Readers and partners keep it that way.

Partner with us

Who funds us

GCRI is a not-for-profit institution. To ask who funds a piece of work, use the funding questions form.

Independence

Editors and the expert reviewers named on each article decide what we publish. Funders and partners do not review or approve articles before publication.

Corrections policy

Licence

Articles: CC BY 4.0. Figures, maps, twins and data: CC BY 4.0. Other uses: ask through the permissions form.

Privacy choices