Latvia

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

Latvia today faces interconnected and evolving systemic risks:
Flooding and coastal erosion, climate-driven heatwaves, energy transition challenges, biodiversity loss, rural demographic shifts, and growing cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
These vulnerabilities and opportunities align closely with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, demanding sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Latvia demonstrates regional leadership in sustainability, green innovation, and digital governance, further opportunities remain to embed systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods systems.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national, coastal, and rural development frameworks;

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

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, innovation ecosystems, cybersecurity agencies, research institutions, and coastal and rural development organizations;

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

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

• Provides disaster risk modeling, anticipatory policy simulation environments, innovation ecosystem foresight mapping, and sustainable governance monitoring tools;

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

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

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Latvia 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 sustainable development challenges facing Latvia and the broader Baltic and European regions demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Latvia 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 Latvia.

Respectfully submitted,