Petition to António Guterres

Chile

Chile
Environment in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, CL
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National Working Groups (NWGs), established by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) in over 120 countries, provide structured, inclusive platforms for advancing disaster risk reduction (DRR), innovation acceleration, and systemic resilience-building.

In Chile, the NWG strengthens national resilience by:

  • Localizing disaster risk foresight frameworks and operationalizing Chile’s climate adaptation, biodiversity protection, food and water security, energy transition, and sustainable development strategies aligned with the Pact for the Future;
  • Enabling early warning systems, anticipatory governance, and innovation-driven systemic resilience to address vulnerabilities linked to droughts, wildfires, flooding, seismic and tsunami risks, and glacial retreat;
  • Uniting ministries, scientific institutions, water and energy authorities, agricultural and environmental agencies, private sector innovators, and civil society organizations into a national resilience and policy innovation ecosystem;
  • Serving as a nexus of policy, research, and innovation to strengthen disaster risk governance, biodiversity conservation, and systemic foresight.

The Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by GCRI, underpins NWG operations by providing a sovereign-grade, open, and interoperable digital public goods infrastructure.
NE empowers Chile to deploy disaster risk modeling platforms, anticipatory policy simulation environments, innovation ecosystem foresight tools, and sustainability governance monitoring systems.

Together, NWG–Chile and NE form sovereign critical infrastructures for disaster risk governance, systemic foresight, responsible digital innovation, and sustainable development.

We call upon the Government of Chile, United Nations agencies, multilateral institutions, and global partners to formally recognize, support, and resource NWG–Chile and the Nexus Ecosystem as essential infrastructures for systemic resilience, sustainable innovation, and anticipatory governance.

Support NWG–Chile. Advance Risk-Informed Policy Innovation. Secure Digital Public Goods for Systemic Resilience.

March 5, 2024

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Letter to
Secretary-General of United Nations, António Guterres

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

Chile today faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Prolonged droughts and severe wildfires, coastal and urban flooding, glacial retreat in the Andes, seismic and tsunami vulnerabilities, biodiversity degradation in marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and food and water security pressures.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Chile’s leadership in renewable energy, biodiversity protection, climate diplomacy, and sustainable urban planning provides a strong foundation. However, the accelerating complexity of systemic risks demands strengthened systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance mechanisms, and sovereign digital public goods.

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

  • Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Chile’s national frameworks for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, food and water security, and sustainable 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, research and technical institutions, water management authorities, renewable energy leaders, private sector stakeholders, and civil society organizations;

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

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

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

  4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Chile 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 Chile and the broader Latin American and Pacific regions demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Chile 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 Chile.

Respectfully submitted,

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