Earth system risk, planetary boundary status, tipping points, and geopolitical cascades from environmental stress — tracked weekly.
The Global Environmental Risks & Planetary Boundaries Monitor (GERP Monitor) tracks Earth system processes as a strategic intelligence domain — treating ecological degradation as a structural condition that reshapes the geopolitical operating environment, not as a moral cause.
The Nepal flood disaster constitutes the first real-world operational test of the Loss and Damage Funds rapid-response disbursement provisions, and its outcome will materially affect the funds credibi
Read briefing →The record global daily sea surface temperature reading occurring outside the normal seasonal peak indicates the ocean warming signal is increasingly driven by persistent background forcing rather tha
Read briefing →The Petermann Glacier calving event, combined with two further actively propagating rifts, indicates the glacier has entered a phase of accelerated dynamical instability distinct from its relative sta
Read briefing →The Amazon rainforest dieback threshold has been mechanistically lowered by deforestation to within the Paris Agreement temperature range, materially narrowing the safety margin between current warmin
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