North America region
The North America programme covers deeply integrated electricity, energy, transport and manufacturing systems across Canada, the United States and Mexico, together with wildfire, heat, flood, hurricane and Arctic change. The Consortium Secretariat sits with GCRI in Toronto, and the Canada Nexus Consortium programme, in formation, sits within this region. Mexico also takes part in the Latin America and the Caribbean programme. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) coordinates the region as Consortium Secretariat. It is recorded as in formation, with two planned hubs that are coordination roles, not offices. Return to Six programme regions.
- Institution
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
Country programme console
North America region · Country programme A · Month 5
Programme
- Formationdossier
- National Deskstaffed
- National Modelbuild
- Portfoliooptions
- Annual missiontest
- Reportedition
System coupling
dependency strength, 0 to 100
Placeholder strengths a National Model replaces with estimates.
Evidence ledger
| Reservoir storage | OBSERVED | National Desk |
| Hydropower output | MODELLED | Technical office |
| Grid stress | SCENARIO | Technical office |
| Hospital continuity | ESTIMATED | Health ministry |
GCRI · Country programme consoleCountry programme console, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The short answer.
The North America region of Nexus Consortiums covers integrated electricity, energy, transport and manufacturing systems across Canada, the United States and Mexico, with wildfire, heat, flood, hurricane and Arctic change. The Consortium Secretariat sits with GCRI in Toronto, and the Canada Nexus Consortium programme is forming in the region, which is in formation.
Systemic exposure in North America.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, in North America.
Coverage by planned hub.
Each planned hub coordinates shared-system work for a group of countries. No hub host decision is on record, so each is a planned coordination role rather than an operating site.
| Planned hub | Countries covered | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | Canada | National adaptation, sovereign compute, Indigenous and Arctic interfaces, infrastructure and North American coordination. |
| United States | United States, Mexico | Federal, state, Tribal and territorial interfaces; power, digital infrastructure, hazard resilience and supply chains. |
Mexico also takes part in the Latin America and the Caribbean programme. The United States hub's focus covers federal, state, Tribal and territorial interfaces; the Canada hub's covers Indigenous and Arctic interfaces.
Domains, tools and offerings in regional demand.
Finance-readiness questions for the region's financial centres are translated by The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), which never lends, underwrites, rates or invests: insurance availability and protection gaps for wildfire, flood and hurricane; climate-related financial questions for utilities, real estate and municipalities; technology and compute concentration in financial-market infrastructure. See GRA's regional programmes.
- Priority domains: Energy, water, climate and hazards, lifeline infrastructure, critical minerals, AI and cyber, finance and insurance.
- Foundry systems most used by regional missions: Nexus (portfolio and project coordination), GRIx (data, evidence and risk products), DSS (scenarios and decision analysis), NEXCORE (infrastructure enrolment and placement), NET (connectivity and continuity), NSF (policy, rights and assurance decisions).
- Offerings most relevant to regional demand: National Risk, Innovation and Portfolio Baseline; Sector and Critical-Infrastructure Resilience; Sovereign Data, Compute and AI Capability; Responsible Innovation and Interoperability Testbeds; Finance, Insurance and Development Readiness.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Interconnection | Transmission links between power systems or countries that let them share reserves and trade power, and also share disturbances. |
| Critical infrastructure | The physical structures, facilities, networks and assets that provide services essential to the functioning of society and the economy. |
| Fire regime | The typical pattern of fire frequency, intensity, size and season in an area. |
| Programme status | The recorded state of a programme on Nexus pages: exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. A plan is never presented as an activity. |
Programme state and how to take part.
State on record: in formation. GCRI Canada holds the Consortium Secretariat seat in Toronto, Ontario. The Canada Nexus Consortium programme sits within this region: its public programme page is published by The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), it is in formation, and its earlier capability and finance statements are under publisher review against current records before reuse. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. Enquiries about the region go to the regional desk at northamerica@therisk.global, or to the Secretariat at contact@therisk.global; the acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step. Programme engagement follows the sanctions and eligibility policy of Nexus Foundry, and no desk or call to action is offered where engagement is not available.
Questions and answers.
Is there a GCRI office in each North American country?
Does a country listed here have a national programme?
Who decides the regional agenda?
What role does The Global Risks Forum (GRF) play here?
Around GCRI.
Start with an enquiry.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.