Azerbaijan

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 Azerbaijan (NWG–Azerbaijan) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Azerbaijan today faces interconnected and accelerating systemic risks:
Droughts impacting agricultural productivity and water security, seasonal floods and riverine instability, land degradation and desertification pressures, earthquake and landslide risks in mountainous regions, decline in Caspian Sea and mountain biodiversity, and urgent energy transition demands.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Azerbaijan’s strong engagement in energy diversification, environmental protection, and digital modernization initiatives provides a vital strategic foundation. However, the growing complexity of systemic risks demands strengthened systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance capacities, and sovereign digital public goods.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Azerbaijan’s frameworks for climate resilience, sustainable land and water resource management, biodiversity stewardship, food and energy security, and sustainable urban development;

• Strengthening early warning systems, dynamic risk scenario simulation infrastructures, and systemic foresight platforms aligned with the operational mandates of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, academic and technical institutions, agricultural and environmental sectors, energy transition leaders, private sector innovators, and civil society organizations;

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

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

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

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

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

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

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Azerbaijan 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–Azerbaijan’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory governance hubs, and sovereign digital public goods initiatives;

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

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

The systemic resilience and sustainable development challenges facing Azerbaijan and the broader Caucasus and Central Asian regions demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Azerbaijan and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, responsible innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance.

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 Azerbaijan.

Respectfully submitted,