Anticipatory Governance for LDCs: Getting Ahead of Fragility
Since COVID-19 upended our world two years ago, many spoke of a ‘new normal’ - the advent of new governance mechanisms, new approaches - as a lesson learnt of how existing systems were not fit for the types of global shocks the world was experiencing. Two years later, we are now at the precipice of uncertainty. What we are going to be facing in the next decades - is not anything we have experienced before at the scale that we will be experiencing it.
We are going to experience compounding, intersecting systemic and existential risks, and possibly disasters, wars and injustices at a scale not seen before.
