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Data appendix

The indicator set with its sources, the source registers, the licences of every kind of material and the formats of the edition.

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Contents
  1. ·Edition home
  2. ·Executive summary
  3. 1North America’s risk travels through shared rivers, grids and pipelines
  4. 2Key findings
  5. 3Systems and sectors at baseline
  6. 4Risks and capability
  7. 5Dry, hot summer across the Colorado and Rio Grande basins and the southern grids
  8. 6Readings from the other desks
  9. 7The 2027 agenda
  10. 8Systems in depth
  11. AMethodology
  12. BData appendix
    1. B.1 The indicator set
    2. B.2 Regional source register
    3. B.3 Regional reading: North America by member country
    4. B.4 Atlas card: Colorado River basin
    5. B.5 North America system card
    6. B.6 Licences
    7. B.7 Formats and provenance
  13. CReferences and record
  14. ·Complete edition, for print

B.1The indicator set

Table B.1Baseline indicator set
IndicatorValueUnitYearStateSource
Canada population41.65million2025Reported1
United States population341.78million2025Reported1
Mexico population131.95million2025Reported1
Canada emissions, national inventory685Mt CO₂e2024Reported14
United States emissions excluding land use5,912.6Mt CO₂e2024Reported6
Share of three-member emissions, United States80.3%2024Estimated6
Canada hydropower share of electricity54.0%2025Reported5
Mexico oil, gas and coal share of electricity75.4%2025Reported5
US pipeline gas exports to Mexico2,422,839million ft³2025Reported25
Canada area burnt by wildfire14.6million ha2023Reported21
Forest area, Canada42.0% of land2024Reported11
Energy use per capita, Canada7,119kg oil equivalent2024Reported12
Mexican freshwater withdrawal share44.9%2022Reported8
Mexico marine protected area22.6%2025Reported7
Cereal production, United States455.0Mt2024Reported10
US greenhouse gas emissions after 2022Not boundMt CO₂en/aNOT BOUND16
Mexican emissions after 2015Not boundMt CO₂en/aNOT BOUND29
Cross-border electricity flowsNot boundGWhn/aNOT BOUND18
Insured disaster lossesNot boundcurrencyn/aNOT BOUND31
Indicators, CSVIndicators, JSON

B.2Regional source register

The governed source set behind this edition. Each source keeps its authority, coverage, cadence and role; categories describe origin, not truth.

Domains bound by the register

  • WAT
  • ENE
  • FOO
  • HLT
  • BIO
  • CLI
  • INF
  • FIN
  • TRD
  • MIN
Table B.3Regional source register
SourceCategoryCoveragePeriodCadenceRole
Population, output, electricity, water, protected areas145789international statisticsthree members2022–2025annualprofile
Canadian inventory1415national agencyCanada2024annualCLI
US inventory page16national agencyUnited States2022annualCLI
Gas exports25national statisticsUS to Mexico, Canada2025annualENE
Reservoir records and decision19federal agencyColorado basin2026dailyWAT
Drought extent (post-close, context only)26monitor consortiumcontiguous US2026weeklyWAT
Wildfire record2122federal agencyCanada2023–2025annualCLI
Treaty bodies2327commissionsRio Grande, boundary waters2025variousWAT
Mexican inventory29national instituteMexico2015irregularCLI

B.3Regional reading: North America by member country

Map plates for every member country follow in Q2 2027, when boundary sources and public-safe resolutions are bound. This page gives the regional reading in table form for the 3 member countries named in the series registry.

Population, 20251

341.8million

United States

132.0million

Mexico

41.7million

Canada

Table B.4Regional reading: North America by member country
MemberPrincipal hazardsSystems most exposedBaseline evidence
Canadawildfire seasons of 2023 and 20252122climate, health, energypopulation 41.65 million; emissions 685 Mt (national inventory); hydropower 54.0% of electricity1514
United StatesColorado River decision record19; drought extent at the close not boundwater, energy, foodpopulation 341.78 million; emissions 5,913 Mt excluding land use; oil, gas and coal 57.6% of electricity156
MexicoRio Grande deliveries24; high water stress8water, energypopulation 131.95 million; emissions 687 Mt excluding land use; oil, gas and coal 75.4% of electricity156

B.4Atlas card: Colorado River basin

  • basin
  • shared river system
  • reservoirs and irrigation
  • members: United States, Mexico
Systems in view
water, energy and food
Defining instruments
the 1944 treaty35; IBWC Minute 32339; the 2026 decision record19
Couplings
CLI → WAT → ENE; WAT → FOO
Capability evidence
federal operating guidelines for 2027 and 2028 issued19; performance not bound
Gaps
Mexican deliveries under the new cycle, snowpack and basin-state positions
Agenda items
A-03

Reservoir levels at the close are not bound. The decision record of 21 August 2026 governs operations from 2027 [19].

WATER

A shared river system

Source: utility and reservoir release records. Blocker: not retrieved at evidence close.

ENERGY

Hydropower and cooling water

Source: irrigation district and water authority deliveries. Blocker: not retrieved at evidence close.

FOOD

Irrigation supply

B.5North America system card

The card through which North America appears in the global edition and in the sector series. It summarises; it does not rank.

Table B.5North America system card
SystemBaseline stateCoupling to watchCoverage
Watershared rivers; Colorado River decision record19low supply into energy and farmingPARTIAL
Energyelectricity mixes differ; gas exports to Mexico 2.42 trillion ft³525supply route and grid dependencePARTIAL
Foodcereals 455.0 Mt in the United States10drought, heat and tradeTHIN
Healthpopulation aged 65 or over 8.5% to 20.3%9heat and smoke load on servicesTHIN
Biodiversityterrestrial protection 12.9% to 15.3%7condition not boundTHIN

Context

Archetype
three interlinked members sharing basins, grids and pipelines
Population
515.4 million residents in 20251
Trade
US gas pipeline exports to Mexico 2.42 trillion ft³ in 202525
Hazard
Canadian wildfire 14.6 million ha in 202321

The member editions (Canada, United States, Mexico) and this regional edition share finding identifiers where they read the same evidence, so a correction travels to every edition at once.

MEMBER EDITIONS

Same findings, same IDs

North America evidence enters the water, energy, food, finance and climate sector reports through the same finding identifiers.

GLOBAL SECTOR SERIES

Regional evidence, sector reports

In the global edition North America is read against peer distributions and thresholds, never placed in a league table.

GLOBAL FLAGSHIP

Peers, not ranks

B.6Licences

Table B.6Licences of each kind of material
MaterialLicence
TextCC BY 4.0
Dataon the licence of each source; Nexus tables CC BY 4.0
FiguresNexus figures CC BY 4.0; third-party as credited
Mapsboundary source and licence printed on each plate
MetadataCC0 1.0, as Zenodo publishes it
Third-party data, figures and textThe source’s own licence, credited where it is used; never relicensed
Nexus-authored text, tables and figures: CC BY 4.0 (SPDX CC-BY-4.0). Map plates print their boundary source and licence.

B.7Formats and provenance

Table B.7This edition in every format
FormatKindStateWhat it isIdentifier
Web editionHTMLOn this siteDraft in stewardship review; every value resolves to its source.NR-REGIONAL-NAM-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Print editionPDFAt releaseA4 portrait · screen, print and archival PDF, signed with the web edition at release.NR-REGIONAL-NAM-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Indicator dataCSV · JSONOn this site19 indicators with unit, year, status and source; the machine-readable copy ships with the evidence bundle at release.NR-REGIONAL-NAM-2026-BASELINE data release v1
FiguresSVG · PNGOn this site4 on the web edition: headline figure, figure 1.3, coupling instrument, capability ladder.FIG-REGIONAL-NAM-2026-BASELINE-*
SlidesPDFNot recordedNo slide deck is recorded for this edition.
Evidence briefHTML · PDFNot recordedNo evidence brief is recorded for this edition.
Dataset with DOIDataCiteAt releaseConcept and version DOI are minted at deposit; none is recorded yet.

Provenance

Edition pack
The edition’s content pack (JSON), from which the print and web editions are built
Evidence cut
NQ-REG-NAM-2026-Q0-1, closed 30 September 2026
Reproducibility
sourced values cited; analytical values reproducible from stated parameters
Self-check
14 of 23 at evidence close; a fail on any item blocks release
Review
five passes scheduled before release (in Annex C)
Publisher of record
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium
Corrections
Registry correction pathway; upheld corrections are published as notices with a new version

Notes

Numbers are the edition’s reference numbers, so a note reads the same in every chapter. The full list, with every source and its licence, is in Annex C. Annex C, references

  1. 1DATA VINTAGE AFTER CLOSE: World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), Canada, Mexico and United States, retrieved through the World Bank indicators interface (last updated 2026-10-08). World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  2. 14Environment and Climate Change Canada (ed.), Greenhouse gas emissions (Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators): 685 Mt CO2 eq in 2024, 10.3% below 2005 and 0.3% below 2023. Government of Canada, Gatineau. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  3. 6World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF, Mt CO2e (EN.GHG.ALL.MT.CE.AR5), Canada, Mexico and United States. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  4. 5World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: electricity production from oil, gas and coal, nuclear and hydroelectric sources, share of total (EG.ELC.FOSL.ZS, EG.ELC.NUCL.ZS, EG.ELC.HYRO.ZS), Canada, Mexico and United States. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  5. 25U.S. Energy Information Administration (ed.), U.S. natural gas pipeline exports by country (Mexico 2,422,839 and Canada 1,033,487 million cubic feet in 2025). EIA, Washington DC. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  6. 21Natural Resources Canada (ed.), Forest fires: the 2023 season (more than 14.6 million hectares, more than 6,800 fires, more than 230,000 evacuations; typical year more than 2.1 million hectares). Government of Canada, Ottawa. Observation year 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  7. 11World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: forest area, share of land area (AG.LND.FRST.ZS), Canada, Mexico and United States. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  8. 12World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: energy use per capita, kg of oil equivalent (EG.USE.PCAP.KG.OE), Canada 7,119, Mexico 1,498 and United States 6,454. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  9. 8World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: level of water stress, freshwater withdrawal as a share of available resources (ER.H2O.FWST.ZS), and renewable internal freshwater resources per capita (ER.H2O.INTR.PC), Canada, Mexico and United States. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  10. 7World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: terrestrial protected areas, share of land area (ER.LND.PTLD.ZS), and marine protected areas, share of territorial waters (ER.MRN.PTMR.ZS), Canada, Mexico and United States. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  11. 10World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: cereal production, metric tons (AG.PRD.CREL.MT), Canada, Mexico and United States. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  12. 16United States Environmental Protection Agency (ed.), Inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks (page opened reports 1990 to 2022: gross 6,343 and net 5,489 million metric tons CO2e, net 17% below 2005). EPA, Washington DC. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  13. 29Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático (ed.), Inventario nacional de emisiones de gases y compuestos de efecto invernadero (page opened reports the 2015 inventory, 683 Mt CO2e, and is dated May 2018). INECC, Mexico City. Observation year 2015. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  14. 18Canada Energy Regulator (ed.), Provincial and territorial energy profiles: Canada (hydro 60% of 625.7 TWh in 2021, wind and solar 7%, grid intensity from 220 to 100 g CO2e per kWh between 2005 and 2022). CER, Calgary. Observation year 2021. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  15. 31NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (ed.), U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters (page opened returned no figures). NOAA NCEI, Asheville. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  16. 3UNVERIFIED, not opened: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (ed.), Encuesta Intercensal 2025 (130,911,314 inhabitants at 15 October 2025, from search summaries; the page opened showed only its title). INEGI, Aguascalientes. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  17. 4DATA VINTAGE AFTER CLOSE: World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: GDP, current US$ (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD), Canada, Mexico and United States (last updated 2026-10-08). World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  18. 9World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: population aged 65 and above, share of total (SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS), and life expectancy at birth (SP.DYN.LE00.IN), Canada, Mexico and United States. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  19. 15Environment and Climate Change Canada (ed.), Greenhouse gas emissions inventory page: National Inventory Report 1990 to 2024, submitted in 2026 (page opened gave no totals). Government of Canada, Gatineau. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  20. 19U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (ed.), Post-2026 Colorado River reservoir operations (page updated 3 September 2026: draft EIS 9 January 2026, final EIS 31 July 2026, record of decision 21 August 2026, 2007 interim guidelines and 2019 drought contingency plans expiring at the end of 2026). Reclamation, Washington DC. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  21. 26POST-CLOSE, context only: National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA and NOAA (eds.), U.S. Drought Monitor statistics for the contiguous United States, map valid 27 October to 2 November 2026 (D0 72.66%, D1 49.49%, D2 26.74%, D3 9.36%, D4 1.65%; cumulative). University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  22. 22UNVERIFIED, not opened: Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (ed.), 2025 national season statistics (more than 7.5 million hectares by mid-August, second-largest area in the federal record; taken from search summaries because the statistics page was refused). CIFFC, Winnipeg. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  23. 23International Boundary and Water Commission (ed.), Mexico deliveries of Rio Grande water (page opened states the 350,000 acre-feet a year minimum, 1,750,000 acre-feet per five-year cycle and a cycle start of 25 October 2020; delivery graphs not readable). IBWC, El Paso. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  24. 27International Joint Commission (ed.), Mission: prevents and resolves disputes between Canada and the United States under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909; three commissioners from each country. IJC, Ottawa and Washington DC. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  25. 24UNVERIFIED, not opened: International Boundary and Water Commission (ed.), release on the cycle of 25 October 2020 to 24 October 2025 (884,861 acre-feet delivered, from search summaries). IBWC, El Paso. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  26. 35UNVERIFIED, not opened: Governments of Mexico and the United States (eds.), Treaty on the utilisation of waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande, 1944 (taken from memory). Treaty text, 1944. Observation year 1944. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  27. 39UNVERIFIED, not opened: International Boundary and Water Commission (ed.), Minute 323 on Colorado River arrangements (taken from memory). IBWC, El Paso. Observation year 2017. Accessed 2026-11-03.back

Cite this annex

Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). Annex B: Data appendix. In North America Regional Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: Baseline Edition, The State of North America’s Interdependent Systems. (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-REGIONAL-NAM-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

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