Costa Rica

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

Costa Rica today faces dynamic and interconnected systemic risks:
Increased frequency and intensity of storms, coastal and urban flooding, landslides and extreme rainfall impacts, marine and forest biodiversity degradation, climate-driven food and water insecurity, and renewable energy system demands.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Costa Rica’s international leadership in biodiversity conservation, renewable energy adoption, and environmental governance is widely recognized. Yet, the intensifying pace of systemic risks necessitates even stronger systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Costa Rica’s national climate resilience, biodiversity protection, renewable energy transition, and sustainable development frameworks;

• 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 ministries, scientific and environmental research institutions, agricultural and water management authorities, energy transition leaders, private sector stakeholders, and civil society organizations;

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

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

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica and the broader Latin American and Caribbean region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica.

Respectfully submitted,