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The briefing suggests that civilian leaders can adopt these methods to close the 'imagination gap' and maintain agency during environmental destabilization, while also calling for the defense sector to better integrate sustainability into its own doctrine.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000032#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The world has entered a 'polycrisis' era characterized by cascading and systemic risks where environmental shocks, such as biodiversity loss and soil degradation, interact with climate change to create a state of worsening crisis that can destabilize economic, social, and political systems.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000032#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The 'polycrisis' creates a 'strategic risk' to the sustainability transition, as a more chaotic world may force societies to constantly manage symptoms of crises, thereby diverting essential resources and focus away from root causes like emissions reduction and nature regeneration.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000032#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"UK defense leadership provides a model for navigating chaos through baseline capabilities, including physical and mental resilience, values-based leadership to maintain purpose under pressure, and the use of storytelling ('spinning dits') to create a collective knowledge basis and prepare for critical action moments.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000032#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Military rehearsal processes, including wargaming and computer simulations, allow personnel to exercise to the point of failure and close the 'imagination gap' between current realities and a chaotic future; 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Human actions have warmed the climate at a rate not seen in at least 2,000 years, increasing the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events globally.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"zca-000097#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Current national commitments made before COP26 are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5°C and could result in global warming of 2.8°C by 2100. Even under the most ambitious scenarios, global temperatures are likely to reach 1.5°C by 2030 and temporarily overshoot to 1.6°C.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"zca-000097#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Limiting warming to 1.5°C requires a drastic reduction in fossil fuel reliance and a shift to widespread electrification. Specifically, pathways limiting warming to 1.5°C with limited overshoot require a 100% reduction in coal, a 60% reduction in oil, and a 70% reduction in gas (without CCS) by 2050. 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