The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The mission themes Biodiversity Nexus brings to the annual Nexus Universe programme, governed by The Global Risks Forum, with its own website at universe.nexus.
Testing in Nexus Universe is how Biodiversity Nexus brings work to the annual programme governed by The Global Risks Forum, with its own site at universe.nexus. Its proposed mission theme is ecosystem services in a national portfolio. Selected work is tested under controlled conditions, reviewed and published with its limits; a theme is a proposal, not a confirmed exercise.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Mountain ranges, deserts, wetlands, glaciers and reefs, and how remote each division is from large cities, shown for Brazil as an example geography for this subject.
Proposed for controlled testing in the annual programme; a theme is not a confirmed exercise.
| Exercise theme | What it tests |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem services in a national portfolio | Whether a planning team can see how projects across water, agriculture and infrastructure affect shared ecosystem services |
The exercise uses illustrative data and records lessons for method design.
Selected work is tested under controlled conditions, reviewed and then published with its limits. Results that pass go to Nexus Reports. The planned stand-down of each edition keeps review, reconciliation and corrections going after the event.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mission theme | A subject a platform proposes for controlled testing in the annual Nexus Universe programme; a theme is a proposal until the programme confirms an exercise. |
| Simulation exercise | A practice, training or evaluation activity in which an emergency is described or simulated and participants respond as they would in reality, so that plans and capacities can be tested, as WHO's exercise manual describes. |
| Tabletop exercise | A discussion-based exercise in which participants talk through decisions in response to a scenario. |
| After-action review | A structured discussion after an activity of what was planned, what happened, why, and what to change. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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.