Netherlands

Excellencies,

We, the undersigned institutions, experts, and stakeholders committed to systemic foresight, responsible innovation, and sustainable resilience governance, respectfully submit this appeal for the formal recognition and institutional support of the National Working Group for the Netherlands (NWG–Netherlands) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

The Netherlands today faces interlinked systemic risks:
Sea-level rise, coastal and river flooding vulnerabilities, climate-driven biodiversity loss, energy transition imperatives, food-water-energy nexus pressures, and emerging digital sovereignty challenges.
These systemic risks are directly aligned with the foresight challenges identified in the Pact for the Future, necessitating sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While the Netherlands is a global leader in sustainable water management, climate resilience, and green innovation, critical opportunities remain to further embed systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance models, and sovereign digital public goods platforms.

The National Working Group for the Netherlands (NWG–Netherlands) addresses these systemic needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national, urban, and regional sustainability strategies;

• Strengthening early warning systems, dynamic risk scenario simulations, and systemic resilience architectures aligned with the operational mandates of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, research and academic institutions, green innovation hubs, indigenous knowledge systems, and diaspora communities;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational sustainability and systemic foresight governance frameworks aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG–Netherlands’ operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, cloud-agnostic, open digital public goods platform that:

• Provides disaster risk modeling, anticipatory policy simulation infrastructures, innovation ecosystem mapping, and resilience governance monitoring systems;

• Embeds responsible digital governance frameworks, cybersecurity resilience standards, sovereign data protections, and AI ethics protocols aligned with the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports the evolution of holistic resilience, well-being, and sustainable development indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing the Netherlands’ leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

Together, NWG–Netherlands and the Nexus Ecosystem provide the Netherlands with sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructures to operationalize systemic foresight, innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance leadership.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Netherlands as a national and international platform advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory governance innovation, sovereign digital resilience, and sustainable development leadership under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG–Netherlands’ full integration into multilateral resilience financing mechanisms, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods initiatives;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good critical for the Netherlands’ disaster risk intelligence infrastructures, anticipatory policy simulation environments, innovation ecosystem monitoring tools, and sustainable governance frameworks;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Netherlands and NE outputs into global disaster risk dashboards, anticipatory governance hubs, innovation ecosystems, and Pact for the Future foresight monitoring systems.

The systemic resilience and sustainability challenges facing the Netherlands and the broader European and global community require sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Netherlands and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, responsible innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance futures.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational ambitions articulated in the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight leadership, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance for the Netherlands.

Respectfully submitted,