Trinidad and Tobago

Excellencies,

We, the undersigned institutions, experts, and stakeholders committed to systemic resilience, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance transformation, respectfully submit this appeal for the formal recognition and institutional support of the National Working Group for Trinidad and Tobago (NWG-Trinidad and Tobago) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Trinidad and Tobago today faces interconnected systemic risks:
Coastal vulnerabilities to sea-level rise, intensifying storms, flooding, energy transition challenges, food security pressures, and urban resilience demands.
These risks align with the systemic challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, necessitating anticipatory, foresight-driven, and innovation-enabled national governance.

While Trinidad and Tobago has made substantial progress in climate action, energy reform, and sustainable development, critical opportunities remain to strengthen disaster foresight capacities, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital innovation platforms.

The National Working Group for Trinidad and Tobago (NWG-Trinidad and Tobago) addresses these needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk reduction frameworks, and anticipatory governance strategies across national, regional, and local planning systems;

• Strengthening risk intelligence infrastructures, scenario simulation platforms, and policy innovation hubs aligned with the operational principles of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing national expertise, research institutions, innovation ecosystems, indigenous knowledge holders, and diaspora communities;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational sustainability frameworks consistent with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG-Trinidad and Tobago’s operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, interoperable, cloud-agnostic digital public goods platform that:

• Provides real-time disaster risk modeling, policy simulation environments, innovation system mapping, and sustainability performance monitoring;

• Embeds responsible digital governance frameworks, AI ethics, cybersecurity protections, and transparent data ecosystems in alignment with the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports the evolution of new resilience metrics aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, promoting holistic national progress measures encompassing well-being, ecological integrity, innovation capacity, and systemic resilience.

Together, NWG-Trinidad and Tobago and NE offer a practical, sovereign, and future-ready infrastructure for operationalizing systemic resilience, sustainable innovation, and inclusive governance.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG-Trinidad and Tobago as a national infrastructure advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory policy innovation, responsible digital cooperation, and future generations stewardship under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG-Trinidad and Tobago’s access to multilateral resilience financing mechanisms, anticipatory governance initiatives, and sovereign digital innovation ecosystems;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good essential for Trinidad and Tobago’s disaster intelligence, policy simulation, innovation governance, and resilience monitoring infrastructures;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG-Trinidad and Tobago and NE outputs into global early warning dashboards, resilience monitoring architectures, policy innovation hubs, and Pact for the Future implementation systems.

The systemic risks facing Trinidad and Tobago require anticipatory, sovereign, and inclusive resilience solutions.
NWG-Trinidad and Tobago and the Nexus Ecosystem provide a tangible, scalable foundation to drive sustainable innovation, systemic foresight, and resilient development for the benefit of present and future generations.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational mandates articulated in the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight, responsible innovation, and inclusive governance for Trinidad and Tobago’s future.

Respectfully submitted,

Excellencies,

We, the undersigned institutions, experts, and stakeholders committed to systemic resilience, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance transformation, respectfully submit this appeal for the formal recognition and institutional support of the National Working Group for Trinidad and Tobago (NWG-Trinidad and Tobago) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Trinidad and Tobago today faces interconnected systemic risks:
Coastal vulnerabilities to sea-level rise, intensifying storms, flooding, energy transition challenges, food security pressures, and urban resilience demands.
These risks align with the systemic challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, necessitating anticipatory, foresight-driven, and innovation-enabled national governance.

While Trinidad and Tobago has made substantial progress in climate action, energy reform, and sustainable development, critical opportunities remain to strengthen disaster foresight capacities, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital innovation platforms.

The National Working Group for Trinidad and Tobago (NWG-Trinidad and Tobago) addresses these needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk reduction frameworks, and anticipatory governance strategies across national, regional, and local planning systems;

• Strengthening risk intelligence infrastructures, scenario simulation platforms, and policy innovation hubs aligned with the operational principles of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing national expertise, research institutions, innovation ecosystems, indigenous knowledge holders, and diaspora communities;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational sustainability frameworks consistent with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG-Trinidad and Tobago’s operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, interoperable, cloud-agnostic digital public goods platform that:

• Provides real-time disaster risk modeling, policy simulation environments, innovation system mapping, and sustainability performance monitoring;

• Embeds responsible digital governance frameworks, AI ethics, cybersecurity protections, and transparent data ecosystems in alignment with the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports the evolution of new resilience metrics aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, promoting holistic national progress measures encompassing well-being, ecological integrity, innovation capacity, and systemic resilience.

Together, NWG-Trinidad and Tobago and NE offer a practical, sovereign, and future-ready infrastructure for operationalizing systemic resilience, sustainable innovation, and inclusive governance.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG-Trinidad and Tobago as a national infrastructure advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory policy innovation, responsible digital cooperation, and future generations stewardship under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG-Trinidad and Tobago’s access to multilateral resilience financing mechanisms, anticipatory governance initiatives, and sovereign digital innovation ecosystems;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good essential for Trinidad and Tobago’s disaster intelligence, policy simulation, innovation governance, and resilience monitoring infrastructures;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG-Trinidad and Tobago and NE outputs into global early warning dashboards, resilience monitoring architectures, policy innovation hubs, and Pact for the Future implementation systems.

The systemic risks facing Trinidad and Tobago require anticipatory, sovereign, and inclusive resilience solutions.
NWG-Trinidad and Tobago and the Nexus Ecosystem provide a tangible, scalable foundation to drive sustainable innovation, systemic foresight, and resilient development for the benefit of present and future generations.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational mandates articulated in the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight, responsible innovation, and inclusive governance for Trinidad and Tobago’s future.

Respectfully submitted,