The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is deeply committed to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by fostering global cooperation and implementing innovative solutions across the water-energy-health-food nexus. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies and fostering multilateral partnerships, the GRA supports the achievement of these goals, ensuring that economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability are balanced and mutually reinforcing. The GRA’s focus on integrated governance and anticipatory action is key to accelerating progress toward the SDGs, addressing complex global challenges, and building a more resilient and sustainable future for all
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) supports the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction by integrating its principles into a comprehensive governance model that enhances global resilience to disasters. The GRA employs advanced monitoring tools, predictive analytics, and AI-driven insights to anticipate and mitigate the impacts of natural and human-made hazards across bioregions. Through strategic partnerships and capacity-building initiatives, the GRA empowers communities and nations to reduce vulnerabilities, manage risks effectively, and strengthen their resilience, contributing to the global reduction of disaster-related losses
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is deeply committed to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by fostering global cooperation and implementing innovative solutions across the water-energy-health-food nexus. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies and fostering multilateral partnerships, the GRA supports the achievement of these goals, ensuring that economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability are balanced and mutually reinforcing. The GRA’s focus on integrated governance and anticipatory action is key to accelerating progress toward the SDGs, addressing complex global challenges, and building a more resilient and sustainable future for all
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is committed to the objectives of the Pact for the Future, driving forward global efforts to secure a sustainable, equitable, and resilient future for all. By integrating the principles of this pact into its governance framework, the GRA fosters multilateral cooperation and promotes ethical innovation in technology and policy development. The GRA’s focus on the human-machine-nature nexus ensures that progress is made in harmony with ecological limits and planetary integrity, supporting the long-term well-being of both people and the planet. Through proactive governance and strategic action, the GRA contributes to building a future that aligns with the shared vision of global sustainability and equity outlined in the Pact for the Future
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) actively aligns with the principles of the Global Digital Compact, recognizing the transformative power of digital technologies in addressing global challenges. The GRA leverages cutting-edge digital infrastructure, such as decentralized networks, blockchain, and AI, to enhance global governance and resilience. By fostering digital inclusivity and ensuring equitable access to technology, the GRA supports the Compact's goals of bridging the digital divide and promoting responsible digital innovation. This integration enables the GRA to harness the full potential of digital tools in advancing sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, and global cooperation
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is deeply committed to the principles outlined in the Declaration on Future Generations, which emphasizes the responsibility to safeguard the planet and its resources for future generations. The GRA’s governance model incorporates long-term thinking and anticipatory action, ensuring that today’s decisions contribute to a sustainable and resilient future. By prioritizing the preservation of biodiversity, ecosystem services, and planetary health, the GRA works to secure the well-being of future generations. Through its innovative approaches to environmental management and disaster risk reduction, the GRA ensures that the needs of future generations are at the forefront of global decision-making, aligning with the vision of the Declaration
The world is at a critical juncture. Traditional approaches to global risks are no longer sufficient. We stand at the precipice of change. The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is not merely an alliance; we are the vanguard of a new future, where anticipation trumps reaction, where innovation shatters the chains of outdated thinking, and where global collaboration is the cornerstone of human progress. We declare:
We are not waiting for change; we are the change. We call upon innovators, leaders, and citizens of the world to join us in this audacious endeavor. Together, we will rewrite the rules of engagement with our planet and with each other
The Observatory Protocol stands at the frontier of global resilience, fusing cutting-edge science with decentralized technology to revolutionize disaster risk reduction. This groundbreaking framework harnesses the power of distributed networks, AI/ML applications, and real-time environmental sensing to create an unprecedented early warning and response system. By integrating blockchain-secured data commons with AI-driven analysis, we're not just predicting the future—we're actively shaping it. From safeguarding biodiversity to optimizing the water-food-energy nexus, the Observatory Protocol empowers communities worldwide to face environmental challenges head-on. Join us in building a more resilient planet, where technology and nature work in harmony to ensure a sustainable future for all
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to