Canada

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

Canada today faces accelerating and interconnected systemic risks:
Wildfires and catastrophic flooding, Arctic warming and permafrost degradation, coastal vulnerabilities, biodiversity loss across Arctic, forest, and marine ecosystems, food and water system disruptions, clean energy transition demands, and cybersecurity and digital sovereignty challenges.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Canada’s recognized leadership in climate action, Indigenous reconciliation, clean energy transition, technological innovation, and sustainable development provides a strong foundation. However, the magnitude and complexity of systemic risks demand enhanced systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital public goods.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Canada's frameworks for climate resilience, Indigenous-led resilience strategies, food and water security, biodiversity conservation, energy transition, and digital sovereignty;

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

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across federal, provincial, territorial, Indigenous governments, academic and research institutions, clean technology innovators, private sector stakeholders, and civil society organizations;

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

NWG–Canada’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 Canada’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

Together, NWG–Canada and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Canada 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–Canada 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–Canada’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 Canada’s disaster risk intelligence infrastructures, anticipatory policy simulation platforms, innovation ecosystem monitoring, and sustainable governance frameworks;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Canada 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 Canada and the broader North American and Arctic regions demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Canada 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 Canada.

Respectfully submitted,