The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
Research, technology and policy for connected risk

Evidence and capability for systemic risk.

GCRI helps countries and institutions understand systemic risk, govern frontier technology and build the capability to act on what they learn. It is the research, development and policy institution of the Nexus Consortium, with GCRI US in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in Ontario.

Find your route in What GCRI offers
Leads
Research, development and policy research. GCRI Canada leads the Consortium as its Secretariat and global contracting party
Organisations
GCRI US in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in Ontario, each with its own legal identity
Works with
The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and the Global Risks Alliance (GRA), the other pillar institutions of the Nexus Consortium
Never
Regulates, certifies, licenses or approves
World mapThe world’s land and country boundaries, for context.
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GCRI · institution · fieldDESIGN FIGURE

People and hazardsPeople per land cell, from each country’s Natural Earth population estimate. Select a cell for live events and its latest NASA POWER day.

Regions
6
In the consortium geography
Planned hubs
15
Coordination roles, not offices
Nexus systems
20
One shared operating environment
Platforms
30
All thirty established
01The institution

The technical office of the Consortium: evidence, methods and the Secretariat.

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) works through GCRI US in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in Ontario. GCRI Canada is the Lead Institution, Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisation of the Nexus Consortium. GCRI turns national questions into testable work and keeps the records the programme runs on.

GCRI · Consortium

Consortium from the technical office

Consortium · Governance · Research · Platforms · Programme year · Foundry · Standards · Reports · Take part · Foundry year · Reports year · Handoffs · Contributed capacity · Programme states · Records · Report streams · The programme year · A national mission · Mission admission · Data and resources qualified · Build accepted for exercise · Action Week live operation · Stand-down and evidence sealed · Publication authorised · Correction and renewal · The Nexus cycle · National Nexus · Regional programmes · Working groups · Competence Cells and CERT · Joining as institution · Governance dialogues · Platform onboarding · Foundry builds · Labs · Reports · Standards adoption · Risk Academy · Index data intake · Finance readiness dossier · The Nexus Consortium · Twenty-seven phase cycle · Executable annual cycle · Complaint and appeal · Engineering change · Incident response and forensics · Provider exit and decommissioning · De-risking case handoff · Founding and institutional establishment · Consortium formation lifecycle · National Nexus formation · Constitutional amendment · Independent review and appeal · Correction and contestability · Body charter and council · Succession · Public interest and anti-capture · External authority hand-off · Funding · Ethics · Public transparency · Data stewardship and trust · Gates G0 to G7 · Forming the annual agenda · Adopting a Nexus Standard · NNC membership · Year-One leadership pathway · Working-group assignment by competence · National company and SPV · Public-authority interface and delegation · Annual Universe operating cycle · Provider qualification · Evidence to record · Evidence record · Build and release · Edition

GCRI Canada keeps the Secretariat, the technical office turns national questions into tested evidence, and the competent authority decides.

  1. 01 Agenda

    1. 01National questionsStart · National DesksNational Desks collect material questions, capability gaps and candidate missions.
    2. 02Evidence classifiedStep · GCRIGCRI’s evidence process classifies what is worth testing.

  2. 02 Mandate

    1. 03G0 · Annual programme authorisedGate · The Global Risks ForumGCRI opens the cycle project and the National Portfolio baseline.
    2. 04Consortium SecretariatRecord · GCRI CanadaThe Secretariat keeps the programme’s records and routes correspondence to the desks.

  3. 03 Technical office

    1. 05G2 · Data and resources qualifiedGate · GCRI technical officeSources, people and resources are qualified before the build.
    2. 06Core Build ReportRecord · GCRI, Foundry pillarGCRI builds in one month on the Nexus systems. GRF accepts the build for exercise.

  4. 04 Exercise and seal

    1. 07Exercise supportExercise · GCRI technical officeThe technical office runs the simulation environment. Evaluation is assigned to others.
    2. 08G5 · Evidence sealed and stand-down recordedGate · GCRITemporary access is revoked and transferable evidence is sealed.

  5. 05 Record and publish

    1. 09ReportsRecord · GCRIGCRI publishes. GRF authorises publication at G6.
    2. 10Standards SecretariatRecord · GCRI CanadaMethod findings return to the Nexus Standards as change proposals.

  6. 06 Decide

    1. 11Authority decidesOutcome · The competent authorityDecisions and execution stay with the government, operator or licensed institution.

GCRI · A national mission · How Nexus Consortium worksAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.

What it answers for

  1. Coordinates the integrated programme and keeps its records, calendars and source registers.
  2. Stewards evidence, methods and technical assistance so national questions become testable work.
  3. Forms country programmes with nationally accountable counterparts.
  4. Supports nationally and regionally accountable programmes under recorded mandates; contracting and deployment parties are identified for each engagement.
Integrated consortium secretariat
GCRI Canada within the approved lead mandate
Evidence, methods and technical assistance
GCRI technical and evidence stewardship
Decisions of the competent authority and execution
The relevant government, operator or licensed institution

Risk technology and intelligence

Evidence, models, data and technology that turn national questions into reproducible analysis, tested systems and published findings.

  • 01National risk assessmentCountry baselines, dependencies and evidence gaps
  • 02Infrastructure resilienceEnergy, water, transport and essential services
  • 03Data and AISovereign data environments and responsible AI
  • 04Technology testingIndependent evaluation under real operating conditions
  • 05Shared computingHigh-performance computing for annual missions
  • 06Research and reportsQuarterly and annual country reports with methods
International standing6 statuses and memberships
  • Special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  • Member of the Civil Society Policy Forum of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • Member of the Santiago Network for averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Observer of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
  • Member of Alliance 2030, Canada’s national network for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Member of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
02Live map

Hazards and exposure, now

Flood water, active fires and surface heat beside where people live and night-time lights, from NASA satellites, with elevation and live natural events. Switch layers, draw an area, read values and export an image with its citations.

The interactive map needs JavaScript; the layer list and sources are below.

Layers 3

Hazards and exposure

About this layer
Evidence
Observed (clouds leave gaps)
Source
VIIRS Global Flood Product (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite detection; clouds leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-14
Resolution
about 250 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite detection; clouds leave gaps. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed (clouds and overpass timing leave gaps)
Source
VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS) (NASA LANCE FIRMS)
Provider
NASA LANCE FIRMS
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite detection; clouds and overpass timing leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-13
Resolution
about 500 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite hot-spot detections for the day shown, including gas flares and industrial heat; not a confirmed fire, an incident report or a warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Estimated
Source
Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University))
Provider
NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Vintage
null; Census-based estimate, static (2020)
Resolution
about 1 km grid
Uncertainty
Census-based estimate of people per square kilometre in 2020, shown as exposure context; not a count of people affected by any hazard.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed (persistent cloud still leaves gaps)
Source
VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
8-day; Satellite 8-day composite; persistent cloud still leaves gaps
Newest at build
2026-09-14
Resolution
about 1 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite skin temperature of the ground over the 8 days ending on the date shown, a heat exposure indicator; not air temperature, heat index or a heat warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed
Source
VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2) (NASA LAADS DAAC)
Provider
NASA LAADS DAAC
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite radiance, corrected for moonlight and atmosphere
Newest at build
2026-10-12
Resolution
about 500 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite night-time radiance for the date shown; lights are a proxy for electricity use and outages, not a measurement of supply or access.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
Evidence
Observed (clouds leave gaps)
Source
VIIRS NOAA-20 Deep Blue AOD (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
NASA open data
Vintage
daily; Satellite retrieval; clouds leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-14
Resolution
about 2 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite measure of haze, smoke and dust through the whole air column on the day shown; an exposure indicator, not ground-level PM2.5, an air quality index or a health warning.
Reached through
gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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Drag to move. Ctrl or ⌘ and scroll, pinch or the buttons to zoom; hover for the values under the pointer; reset returns to the region.

Hazards and exposure, framed on Canada.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date. They are indicators, not assessments of any place.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONET · U.S. Geological SurveySources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS and VIIRS atmosphere products, NASA LANCE and LAADS DAAC; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). Cite as: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live events: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); events are indicative and keep their original source links.
  • Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not authority warnings.
  • Live: U.S. Geological Survey Events are indicative, not authority warnings.
  • NASA GIBS: We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
  • River discharge forecast, 30 days with range (GloFAS via Open-Meteo): Contains modified Copernicus Emergency Management Service information 2026; not a flood warning.
  • Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (https://open-meteo.com/), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
  • Optional layers (10 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Aerosol optical depth, daily: VIIRS NOAA-20 Deep Blue AOD, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

03Problem and practice

One shock becomes several. GCRI builds the evidence to act before it does.

Why connected risk outruns sector-by-sector evidence, what GCRI does about it, the science it applies and how a question moves to a tested, published answer.

The systems that keep societies running depend on one another. A drought becomes a power shortage, a food price spike and a strain on hospitals. New technologies change both what can go wrong and what institutions can do about it. Most mandates, budgets and data are still organised one sector and one border at a time.

Failures cascade

Water, energy, food, health, ecosystems and infrastructure share dependencies. Assessing them separately misses the compound events that cause the greatest harm.

Technology outpaces governance

Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum and autonomous systems create capability and exposure faster than institutions can evaluate or absorb them.

Evidence arrives late

Ministries, operators and financial institutions often decide without shared evidence, tested options or a clear statement of uncertainty.

Cascade trace · compound drought and heatIllustrative
Cascade trace, example screenAn illustrative trace of a compound drought and heat cascade in six steps from a rainfall deficit to hospital continuity at risk, each with its time offset, an evidence label and a falling confidence meter. Names and values are examples.

Fig. 02Six steps from a rainfall deficit to hospital continuity at risk, each with its own evidence label. Illustrative chain, not a forecast.

04Build and read risk

Build a live risk picture, then read how it couples and what responds.

Coupled risk, applied response.

The sectors urban flood touches and how strongly they depend on each other: what a study has to observe and model together.

Choose a context

ACoupled risk across six sectors6 / 15 relations

Sectors · Urban floodStress

Illustrative: a teaching cascade over teaching values, not measurements.
BApplied response across six pillars11 / 18 handoffs

Pillars · Urban floodKPI

Illustrative applications; the values are published benchmarks, cited in the readout.

In this contextDependence or handoff, heavier is strongerOutside this context

Context

Urban flood

Flooded streets take out substations, pumping stations and clinic access together; drinking water fails when power does.

W · E · I · F · H · B

Risk

Sectors
4 of 6
Relations
6 of 15
Coupling
0.46 share of total

Hover a corner, a line or a row to trace it across both sides.

Route

Applied to urban flood

L · F · U · S · R · A

Response

Pillars
5 of 6
Handoffs
11 of 18
Loops
8 closed

Expected value

What is at stake
$390Ba year at least, in infrastructure disruption costs to households and firms in low- and middle-income countriesWorld Bank, Lifelines, 2019
Return on resilience
4 : 1benefit to costWorld Bank, Lifelines, 2019
Avoided loss
30%less damage with 24 hours’ warning of a storm or heatwaveGlobal Commission on Adaptation, Adapt Now, 2019

Hover a pillar, a line or a row to read how it is applied.

A: a teaching cascade (shock 0.6, gain 0.35, four rounds) over teaching values for a typical city-region, not measurements. B: illustrative applications and the KPI each pillar answers for; values are published benchmarks, cited, not forecasts. Open events: NASA EONET, live.

05Field explainer

A country’s systems, before and after a shock.

How stress builds inland and travels through a country’s systems after a shock, on real geography with elevation: the Lower Mekong at baseline, under drought and heat, and in the flood after the drought. Select a scenario. The levels are examples, not results.

Basin stress field · select a scenarioReal geography · example values
Basin stress field, illustrative values on real geographyThe Lower Mekong region and how stress could build across it under three scenarios: baseline, drought and heat, or flood after drought. Real geography; illustrative levels, not results.
No signalLowElevatedHighSevere
Sea floorDelta, 0 to 10 mPlain, 50 to 150 mUpland, 400 to 800 mHighland, 1,500 to 2,500 mRivers

Fig. 01The Lower Mekong under a drought, heat or flood scenario. Real geography. The levels are illustrative, not results.

Baseline

What a country’s systems look like before a shock.

The National Model holds water, energy, food, health, biodiversity and critical infrastructure as one coupled system, cell by cell, with every value carrying its evidence label.

Systems
6
Coupled in every model
Channels
30
Transmission channels examined
Drought and heat

Stress builds inland, then travels through the grid.

A rainfall deficit lowers reservoirs, cuts hydropower, strains the grid at evening peak and reaches water treatment and hospitals weeks later. Each step keeps its own label and its own confidence.

Cascade
6
Steps from deficit to hospitals, traced below
Labels
9
Evidence labels, one per finding
Flood after drought

The coast and the lake plain take the second shock.

Intense rain on dry ground overwhelms drainage, inundates treatment works and pumping stations, and interrupts electricity. The same model shows where the two shocks compound.

Methods
54
In the STEM Commons, each with a canonical page
Systems
20
Nexus systems the model runs in

A research profile of a country is not a constituted national programme. The model is operated under the authority of the programme that owns the question and its data.

06National and regional programmes

Nationally owned programmes, comparable across borders and regions.

Each country forms its own consortium: institutions, leaders and experts in three pillars, with its own Desk, Model and Portfolio. Six regions compare compatible evidence on the systems that cross borders.

Each country forms its own consortium with accountable counterparts: institutions, leaders and experts in three distinct pillars. GCRI provides the methods, the shared environment and the Secretariat. The country keeps its agenda and its data.

National consortiums

National instruments

National Standards CouncilAdopts or adapts the Standards in each jurisdiction

Decides whether and how the Nexus Standards are adopted or adapted in that jurisdiction; owns the national profile, deviation register and national-language editions; nominates to the regional seats. Set by the national host and anchor institutions under national law; minimum a chair, a public-authority liaison where one exists, and members from at least three stakeholder groups (government, academia, industry, civil society, communities); no seat is sold or tied to a contribution.

How a national agenda forms

  1. National Desks collect material questions, capability gaps and candidate missions.
  2. Regional coordination identifies shared dependencies: basins, grids, health systems, ports, corridors, digital infrastructure and financial exposure.
  3. GCRI’s evidence process classifies what is observed, unknown, modelled and worth testing.
  4. GRF’s participation process tests inclusion, institutional fit, leadership demand and public-purpose legitimacy.
  5. GRA’s readiness process identifies financial transmission, protection gaps and diligence requirements without selecting investments.
  6. Scientific and affected-stakeholder challenge informs mission selection and methods.
  7. The authorised annual mandate sets scope, budget, participating structures, evaluation questions and publication intentions.
07Programmes and routes in

What a country or institution can ask for, and where to start.

Ten programmes, each from a question to named deliverables, and a route in for every kind of institution and person. The current service level is information and enquiries.

Ten programmes a country or institution can request.

Each starts from a question an accountable owner puts to the Consortium and ends in named deliverables. National adoption, finance and execution remain separate decisions of the competent authority.

All programmes
  1. 01National Risk, Innovation and Portfolio BaselineWhat systems matter most, where are material dependencies and evidence gaps, and which capabilities or interventions deserve further work?
    • Baseline country profile
    • National systems model
    • Risk and capability portfolios
    • Innovation posture
  2. 02Sector and Critical-Infrastructure ResilienceHow could a shock propagate through essential services, and which changes warrant testing?
    • Sector dependency atlas
    • Risk scenarios
    • Service-continuity options
    • Engineering evidence
  3. 03Sovereign Data, Compute and AI CapabilityWhat technical environment can support national work without unnecessary dependency or loss of control?
    • Estate assessment
    • Data and compute architecture
    • Approved workload plan
    • Implementation options
  4. 04Responsible Innovation and Interoperability TestbedsDoes a candidate technology solve the intended problem under representative operating conditions?
    • Test protocol
    • Versioned candidate
    • Measured evaluation
    • Failure cases
  5. 05Multi-Hazard and Anticipatory-Action PreparednessCan evidence, warnings, institutions and preparedness actions work together under pressure?
    • Preparedness gap analysis
    • Scenario package
    • Warning and trigger verification
    • Exercise observations
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  1. 06Cross-Border and Shared-System MissionsWhich interdependencies cross borders, mandates or organisations, and how can compatible evidence improve decisions?
    • Shared-system profile
    • Compatible data and method interface
    • Cross-border scenario
    • Joint evidence brief
  2. 07Finance, Insurance and Development ReadinessWhat evidence does a competent financial institution need to evaluate resilience needs and possible interventions?
    • Exposure and protection-gap notes
    • Scenario evidence
    • Readiness dossier
    • Diligence-question register
  3. 08Leadership, Academy and Workforce FormationWhat human capability must improve for the programme to last?
    • Capability baseline
    • Learning plan
    • Contribution record
    • Supervised work products
  4. 09Annual Universe Missions and Contributed InfrastructureWhich of the year’s missions need temporary technical intensity and a controlled proving environment?
    • Mission contract
    • Resource allocation
    • Core Build evidence
    • Exercise evidence
  5. 10Research, Publications and Evidence ServicesWhat can responsibly be concluded and shared from the accumulated work?
    • Quarterly country reports
    • Annual flagships
    • Regional, sector and technology series
    • Methods papers
08The evidence chain

One method, written once, used across the Consortium.

GCRI’s platforms share fields with the Forum’s and the Alliance’s. Trace a field across the three institutions, then follow the work into the Standards it is written against, the courses that teach it and the Reports that publish it.

30 GCRI platforms · 28 shared fields · 30 counterpart platformsSelect a field to trace it. Hover a platform to see its fields.
  1. G05Biodiversity Nexus
  2. G-P07Oceans and Coasts
  3. G-P02Climate and Hazards
  4. G-P03Disaster Resilience and Recovery
  5. G-P12Space and Earth Observation
  6. G01Water Nexus
  7. G03Energy Nexus
  8. G06Registry
  9. G02Food Nexus
  10. G-P13Biotechnology and Biosecurity
  11. G10Agency
  12. G11Reports
  13. G08Labs
  14. G-P04Critical Infrastructure
  15. G04Health Nexus
  16. G-P10Data and Compute
  17. G-P19Systems Science and Modelling
  18. G-P05Cities and Built Environment
  19. G-P01Systemic Risk Management
  20. G09Foundry
  21. G-P15Economic Development
  22. G-P09Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience
  23. G-P06Trade and Strategic Resources
  24. G-P14Advanced Industry and Robotics
  25. G07Campaigns
  26. G-P16Society and Human Development
  27. G-P08Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems
  28. G-P17Future of Work and Skills
  29. G-P11Quantum Technologies
  30. G-P18Digital Public Infrastructure
  1. A03Asset Management Nexus
  2. A-P04Climate and Nature Financial Risk
  3. A-P02Reinsurance and Catastrophe
  4. A02Banking Nexus
  5. R-P01Climate and Nature Governance
  6. R06Diplomacy Nexus
  7. A09Financial Regulation Nexus
  8. R-P02Disaster and Crisis Governance
  9. A01Insurance Nexus
  10. R01Research Nexus
  11. A-P03Disaster Risk Finance
  12. A-P09Public Finance and Sovereign Debt
  13. R03Policy Nexus
  14. R07Governance Nexus
  15. R-P04Health and Biosecurity Governance
  16. R05Capital Nexus
  17. A-P08Financial Crime and Fraud Risk
  18. A06Development Finance Nexus
  19. A-P11Actuarial and Quantitative Risk
  20. R04Foresight Nexus
  21. A-P01Financial Stability
  22. A-P06Financial Cyber and Operational Resilience
  23. R02Innovation Nexus
  24. A08Institutional Funds Nexus
  25. R-P05Information Integrity and Public Trust
  26. A07Private Equity Nexus
  27. R-P03AI and Digital Governance
  28. A04Fintech Nexus
  29. A-P05Payments and Market Infrastructure
  30. A-P07AI and Financial Model Risk
Fig.Each line joins a platform to a field it works in: GCRI’s 30 platforms on the left, the fields in the middle, and the 12 at GRF and 18 at GRA platforms that work in the same fields on the right. The count beside a field reads GCRI platforms / counterparts. Source: the Consortium’s platform registry (architecture V4).

  • RegistryOpen

    Standards

    The identifiers, schemas and conformance tests every GCRI method and dataset is written against.

    18foundation348risk20programmes

    Open StandardsWhich apply

  • Learning22 courses open

    Academy

    Courses in the methods behind GCRI’s work, from hydrology and epidemiology to model validation.

    9faculties118disciplines117courses

    Open the AcademyCatalogue

  • EvidenceCorrections open

    Reports

    Where GCRI’s findings, failures and corrections become citable, versioned evidence.

    10series4per year9labels

    Open ReportsSeries

The Global Risks Index

Every figure on this page is indexed: hazards, climate, conflict, Canada.

The Index is the Consortium’s indexing system for risk data. Every indicator, hazard, series and country profile carries its Nexus Standards identifier, its source and its licence, so what this page shows can be traced, corrected and reused.

  1. 01 · Sources205 registered sourcesEvery value keeps its source and licence; withheld values are counted.Data and licences
  2. 02 · Nexus StandardsNIS-1 and NHS-1451 indicators, 905 hazards; every record carries a UNI.Nexus Standards
  3. 03 · The Index54 series, 195 country profilesComputed on the standards; no value is published until an edition is released.The Global Risks Index
  4. 04 · This pagethe GCRI homeMaps, figures and feeds read the Index in the context of hazards, climate, conflict and Canada.Public API
Sources205registered, each with its licence
Indicators451NIS-1, 106 composites, 20 domain indices
Hazards905NHS-1, crosswalked to UNDRR-ISC HIPs
Series54global, sector, strategic, technology, thematic
Country profiles195one site per country

Series in this context hazards, climate, conflict

  1. GLBGlobal SystemsThe state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap…NXS-GRX-AR-000002Hazards · Climate · Conflict
  2. THDisaster Risk Intelligence (DRI)Signals, observations, event streams, geospatial layers and scenario packs turned into structured risk intelligence for preparedness and planning.NXS-GRX-AR-000111Hazards · Climate · Conflict
  3. GSGlobal CitiesUrban exposure, heat, flooding, informal settlement, service dependency and the economic weight of cities at risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000068Hazards · Infrastructure · Climate
  4. GSGlobal ClimateChronic and acute physical climate hazard, transition exposure, adaptation gaps and scenario pathways to 2030, 2050 and 2100.NXS-GRX-AR-000065Climate · Hazards · Finance

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