This report identifies and characterises systemic environmental risks, explores how they interact across societal systems, and analyses governance approaches that can respond to them. It introduces risk constellations as a practical way to discuss complex risk interactions. This approach allows experts and policymakers to map drivers, magnifiers and impacts at a manageable scale while still keeping sight of the wider system in which risks unfold.

This project supports a better understanding of systemic and complex environmental risks and how they can be governed. The project contributes to Europe’s evolving policy agenda on resilience, preparedness and sustainability, including discussions linked to the EU Preparedness Strategy and the forthcoming European Climate Resilience and Risk Management Framework.