Impact Trust • Working glossary
Global systemic risk
Risk that one shock can break the whole connected system.
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Our Take
Useful in distinguishing local or sectoral risk from risks that propagate across the entire system. Helpful in technical risk work; otherwise opaque without concrete examples (financial contagion, pandemic cascades, infrastructure collapse).
Examples of Use
Risk, finance, governance experts
Synonyms/Variants
Systemic risk; System-wide risk; Interconnected risk
Typical everyday wording
A shock big enough to break the whole system
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