We’re bringing River Tone community members together to explore systemic risk through the eyes of otters, deer, earthworms, salmon – and the river itself. Risks Beyond Human Eyes shows how #SystemicRisk assessment & response can move beyond human-centred models. www.asranetwork.org/insights/ris...

Join a special event to celebrate 80 years of the UN. A line-up of inspiring talks will explore how multilateralism can be renewed for the future. Our Director of Systemic Risk Assessment will take part in a panel on addressing planetary challenges. 🗓️ 17 Jan www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unga-at-80...

HIRING: Join our team as a Research Analyst examining the systemic risks of climate change. We’re looking for a researcher to work on a major project focusing on the implications of exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature goal. Learn more: www.asranetwork.org/news/job-ope... #climatejobs

What does it mean for an institution to transform with dignity, courage, & creativity? We're choosing to model something we believe the sector desperately needs: the courage to transform strategically rather than fade slowly. Learn more: www.asranetwork.org/news/inside-...

Some news from ASRA…. 🐛🦋 ASRA has decided to transition the ownership and management of our assets, activities, and operations to others who share our purpose and can build on what we have achieved over the past two years. A thread 1/4 🧵

As our planet spins into another year, it’s a good moment to think bravely, flexing our imagination, to consider the kinds of changes that lead to transformation. 🐛🦋 Addressing #Systemicrisks creates an opportunity to redesign the systems that shape our lives. Watch ASRA Explores with Shama Karkal.

What drives societies to fracture or transform? In episode one of Cross Currents, ASRA Network members explore the dynamics at play that can lead to a society’s collapse or transformation. Watch it here: youtu.be/GfwRDKF_c-o?...

What does it really take to shift complex systems when communities are navigating overlapping crises & entrenched power dynamics? Watch the honest and grounded conversation between ASRA network members David Jácome Polit @iclei.org & Ayan Mahamoud, IGAD on Cross Currents. youtu.be/1NbfW_cIlC8?...

In what ways might thinking about speciesism together with other social inequities or forms of oppression guide us toward a future where all beings thrive? 🐋 🎬 Watch episode 2 in our Cross Currents series on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/y10y8dGWKrg

The ‘Multiple Ways of Knowing’ principle challenges the assumption that any single discipline or worldview can fully grasp today's #SystemicRisks. Weave different perspectives into your systemic risk assessments: steer.asranetwork.org

What if collapse isn’t a single moment, but a messy, uneven process with winners, losers, & surprising forms of renewal? 🎬 In our inaugural episode of Cross Currents, Luke Kemp, Megan Shipman & Daniel Hoyer discuss themes from Luke’s book Goliath’s Curse. youtu.be/GfwRDKF_c-o?...

📣 NEW: We’re excited to launch Cross Currents, a new video series where ASRA network members get together to explore the dynamics, disruptions, and discoveries shaping our world. 🎬 Watch the first three episodes on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Addressing #SystemicRisk can become an opportunity to redesign the systems that shape our lives. Learn more about our transformation principle: www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri... Read the story of Quito's sustainable urban transformation: www.asranetwork.org/stories/quit...

NEW: ASRA Explores non-human sanctity with @tom-oliver.bsky.social. Watch Tom, Professor of Ecology @uniofreading.bsky.social, explain why we need to encompass the more-than-human world into our #SystemicRisk assessments if we want to protect our biosphere and collective future. #morethanhuman

Systemic risks intersect and create feedback loops across scales: planetary, global, regional, and local. 🌎 Our Cross-Scale principle encourages you to examine these intersections to identify critical points of intervention at all scales. www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri...

Join us for the Climate & Nature Risk Practitioner’s webcast exploring the key themes on nature risk from the second Climate Financial Risk Forum paper. Ajay Gambhir from our team will speak alongside @nicolaranger.bsky.social, Sandy Trust & Jheryl Cabey. Register: www.garp.org/event/cfrf25...

HIRING: Join our team and take the lead on promoting and supporting others to use our new #SystemicRisk tool STEER. We’re looking for a highly motivated systems thinker and capacity-builder who can host and provide training. 👉 Apply by midnight 7/12/2025: www.asranetwork.org/news/job-ope...

Ajay Gambhir, our Director of Systemic Risk Assessment, was the special guest on edie’s #COP30 Covered podcast episode “Are we moving the needle on climate adaptation?” Listen here:

How do we make really good decisions when we don’t – and can’t – know for sure what’s going to happen? Watch our latest ASRA Explores… episode with Robert Lempert, @rand.org, where he unpacks decision-making under deep uncertainty. Watch in full: youtu.be/c-HKBQwW0ks #dmdu

When leaders act with compassion, they can guide the transformative action needed to protect our planet from escalating systemic risks. Our ‘Compassion’ principle prompts you to carefully consider the concerns and needs of all stakeholders when assessing risks. www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri...

Last week, we were thrilled to host Prof. Thomas Homer-Dixon for a presentation and discussion about the findings of @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social Polycrisis Core Model (PCM), a system-of-systems analysis of our global future. Watch the recording: youtu.be/FKaFmv0sMzI?... #polycrisis

🎧 New podcast episode with @Sarah Hendel-Blackford, our Director of Systemic Risk Policy & Response, interviewed by Darren Swanson for the Towers of Hiva podcast.

We can't know all the ins and outs of the highly complex, global, and interconnected #SystemicRisks we face. So why do traditional risk assessments and responses act as if systemic crises can be fully understood? Stay humble with our Uncertainty principle: www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri...

EVENT: Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon will guide us through insights from the @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social Polycrisis Core Model – a framework for understanding how today’s overlapping global crises interact to shape our future. 🗓️ November 6 👉 Register: unfoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, our Executive Director Ruth Richardson, explores how today’s #polycrisis demands a systemic approach to risk. Read the commentary: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @springernature.com

Facing a confluence of systemic agricultural crises, a transformative farmer-led response was launched in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. 🌱 APCNF Initiative demonstrates a scalable model for regenerative agriculture & community-led development. Read more:

“Who wins and who loses?” isn't an explicit question that’s often asked in #SystemicRisk assessments. But it should be. In ASRA Explores, Alice Ruhweza explains why it’s so important to consider how risks & responses affect people in different ways. Try it yourself with STEER steer.asranetwork.org

Our new tool STEER helps policy teams understand how digital threats intersect with energy infrastructure, financial systems, and governance, and more – identifying immediate actions while building long-term resilience. Explore the open-source tool: steer.asranetwork.org #AI #systemicrisks

Crises don’t unfold in a linear fashion. Risk assessments shouldn't either. Systemic risks are dynamic, interactive and interdependent. They have unintended consequences and provoke trade-offs when designing responses. Learn more: www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri...

HIRING: Are you interested in #nonhuman research? We’re looking for a research analyst to support the research and development of understanding, assessing, and responding to #SystemicRisk beyond human ways of knowing. Deadline: Wednesday 22 October Learn more:

Systemic risks don't wait their turn. Our new tool STEER helps policy teams understand how today's crises cascade and compound, and to assess their responses. Strengthen your risk preparedness with STEER: steer.asranetwork.org #systemicrisks #tippingpoints #globalrisks

Our new tool STEER supports policy teams to go deeper into the structural nature of the risks we face, built on a legacy of past decisions, and work on transformational responses. Explore the open-source tool: steer.asranetwork.org

“Systems thinking isn’t just useful; it’s an imperative. David Jácome Polit, @iclei.org, was an early adopter of STEER, our new #SystemicRisk framework. He explains how STEER offers a blueprint to practice systems thinking and make more effective decisions.

Just launched! STEER: A new systemic risk framework that helps you ask the right questions about #SystemicRisks & spot gaps in current approaches so you can act with confidence. Explore STEER: steer.asranetwork.org

New Global #TippingPoints Report warns that our rapidly warming world is approaching critical ecological thresholds. ASRA's Ajay Gambhir is one of the authors – he urges governments to integrate tipping points into their #SystemicRisk assessments. 👉 global-tipping-points.org/resources-gt...

Risk assessments aren’t just safeguarding procedures - they’re opportunities for change. Our "Collective and Individual Agency" principle emphasizes the power of whole-of-society participation and collective action for a more equitable & healthy future. www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri...

New event: We’re excited to host Prof. Thomas Homer-Dixon for a presentation on @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social Polycrisis Core Model, a system-of-systems analysis of our global future. 🗓️ Date: November 6, 2025 ⏰ Time: 17:00 GMT 👉 Register: unfoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #polycrisis

Next week, we’re joining Global Sustainability’s webinar to discuss its “#Polycrisis in the Anthropocene” special issue. Our Executive Director will present ASRA’s paper: “Principles for Just and Effective Systemic Risk Governance”. 🗓️ 2 October 🎟️ Register:

To address the risks we face, we must challenge ourselves to ask & answer the questions: risks for whom & from what, when, & where? Our justice principle prompts you to account for the experience of vulnerable communities, making equity key to your risk analysis. www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri...

We joined some of the makers of the first-ever UN Global Risk Report to discuss its impact last week. Alongside @worldacademy.org and @unesco-bridges.bsky.social, we considered the report’s 4 future scenarios, methodology, and future development. Learn more:

We’re speaking at the Systemic Risks Conference, organized by the University of Hamburg, tomorrow (Sept 24). Our team will present ASRA’s approach to #SystemicRisk assessment & response. Watch online: www.fnk.uni-hamburg.de/2-research/r... @janasillmann.bsky.social

“The current risks are a problem because we have a narrative…that is in a way attuned to things that are eventually destructive in the long-term…power, profit and money.” Tackling #SystemicRisks requires rethinking the system according to @gkostakos.bsky.social Co-Founder of @foggsorg.bsky.social.

What would change if you took a nature-centric approach to risk assessment and future planning? Our principle of non-human sanctity prompts you to account for the interconnected & interdependent nature of our planet. www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri...

“If we tell better stories, if we find a way to mainstream the things we talk about… more ordinary people who are not necessarily climate experts will understand it better because people understand stories.” Arekpitan Ikhenaode, Youth Climate Movement of the UNFCCC.

A new GARP Climate Risk Podcast episode looks at why understanding the connections between risks is key to responding to them. 🎧 Ajay Gambhir, our Director of Systemic Risk Assessment, joined Jo Paisley to discuss our new #SystemicRisk assessment framework. Listen here: www.garp.org/podcast/navi...

What if the most important intelligence is already inside the building, just not inside the boardroom? In an era of mounting systemic threats, investors can no longer rely on traditional risk assessment. Read The Rethink by @pdiviews.bsky.social www.asranetwork.org/news/the-ret...

“We live in capitalism and many of the topics we talk about are clearly linked to that…might we need a completely other system? – Florian Ulrich Jehn Hear two powerful ways to address #SystemicRisks from ASRA network members @edwardrcarr.com & Florian Ulrich Jehn.

What if you had to account for people, non-human species, ecosystems AND future generations in your risk assessments? The Universal Responsibility principle challenges us to assess #SystemicRisks & design responses that are accountable to people & ecosystems. 👉 www.asranetwork.org/insights/pri...

New episode of @disordershow.bsky.social interviews our Executive Director, Ruth Richardson, on interconnected risk. Recorded during our symposium, @janekinninmont.bsky.social also speaks with the fascinating @laramani14.bsky.social & @catalinajaime.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/5DZA...

“The future is something that we create collaboratively.” Lewis Akenji from the Hot or Cool Institute asks three questions that encourage us to picture the future we want, and to identify the systemic risks we must address to get there. Filmed at our #CurrentsOfChange symposium by Clara Carbajo.