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# Environmental Risks & Planetary Boundaries · Asymmetric Intelligence

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.

[Live dashboard →](/monitors/environmental-risks/dashboard.html) · [Methodology →](/monitors/environmental-risks/methodology/)

## Recent briefings

25 Oct 2026

### Global Environmental Risks Monitor — 25 October 2026

The Loss and Damage Fund's first allocation, explicitly framed by developed-country board members as non-precedential, indicates the mechanism remains structurally oriented toward exceptional case-by-

[Read briefing →](/monitors/environmental-risks/2026-10-25-weekly-brief/)

18 Oct 2026

### Global Environmental Risks Monitor — 18 October 2026

The 42 percent year on year drop in Brazilian Amazon deforestation is a genuine policy driven reversal of a previously deteriorating land system trajectory, but its durability is contingent on the out

[Read briefing →](/monitors/environmental-risks/2026-10-18-weekly-brief/)

11 Oct 2026

### Global Environmental Risks Monitor — 11 October 2026

The decoupling of Amazon fire activity from formal deforestation-clearing metrics, combined with a newly confirmed secondary ozone feedback suppressing surviving-tree carbon uptake, indicates the Amaz

[Read briefing →](/monitors/environmental-risks/2026-10-11-weekly-brief/)

4 Oct 2026

### Global Environmental Risks Monitor — 4 October 2026

The AMOC western boundary weakening finding, while methodologically strong, remains a single observational study and should not yet be treated as confirming an accelerating collapse trajectory absent

[Read briefing →](/monitors/environmental-risks/2026-10-04-weekly-brief/)

[All Global Environmental Risks & Planetary Boundaries Monitor briefings →](/monitors/environmental-risks/)