Tuvalu

Excellencies,

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

Tuvalu faces an existential convergence of systemic risks:
Sea-level rise threatening national territory, coastal degradation, intensifying storms and floods, freshwater scarcity, food system vulnerabilities, and pressures for climate-induced displacement.
These critical challenges, explicitly reflected in the Pact for the Future, require immediate foresight-driven, sovereign, and innovation-enabled governance models.

While Tuvalu continues to demonstrate leadership in climate diplomacy and resilience-building, systemic gaps persist in anticipatory disaster governance, digital sovereignty, and sustainable resilience infrastructure.

The National Working Group for Tuvalu (NWG-Tuvalu) provides a structured, sovereign platform to:

• Embed systemic foresight, anticipatory action, and disaster risk resilience across national governance, adaptation planning, and community structures;

• Strengthen early warning systems, dynamic risk scenario simulations, and anticipatory governance mechanisms aligned with the Emergency Platform principles;

• Mobilize national expertise, indigenous knowledge systems, diaspora collaboration, and global scientific partnerships to support sovereign resilience and adaptation pathways;

• Institutionalize intergenerational sovereignty protections consistent with the Declaration on Future Generations.

The operational foundation of NWG-Tuvalu is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, cloud-agnostic, open-access digital public goods platform that:

• Provides real-time risk modeling, climate displacement scenario modeling, policy simulation environments, innovation system mapping, and adaptive governance monitoring tools;

• Embeds responsible digital governance, data sovereignty, cybersecurity protections, and digital rights management, aligned with the principles of the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports the creation of Beyond GDP-aligned resilience metrics, ensuring that national survival, ecological security, innovation diffusion, and community well-being are primary indicators of governance success.

Together, NWG-Tuvalu and NE enable Tuvalu to transform systemic resilience challenges into sovereign, future-ready opportunities for adaptation, governance innovation, and national survival.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG-Tuvalu as a critical sovereign infrastructure platform advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory governance, policy innovation, and future generation protection under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, facilitating NWG-Tuvalu’s integration into multilateral resilience funding architectures, anticipatory governance frameworks, and sovereign digital innovation initiatives;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good essential to Tuvalu’s risk intelligence, policy simulation capabilities, and long-term survival monitoring systems;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG-Tuvalu and NE outputs into global early warning dashboards, policy innovation architectures, climate displacement foresight systems, and Pact for the Future resilience monitoring frameworks.

The risks facing Tuvalu transcend conventional development challenges; they threaten national existence itself.
NWG-Tuvalu and the Nexus Ecosystem offer Tuvalu a sovereign, resilient, and inclusive pathway to safeguard its territory, its people, and its future generations.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational commitments of the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our collective commitment to collaborative action, responsible research and innovation, and sovereign resilience-building for Tuvalu’s future.

Respectfully submitted,