Readings from the other desks

The regional baseline is read through each steward’s lens, then once as a whole. Each lens is a projection of reviewed findings, not a separate argument. The other desks’ own editions of this subject are listed first, as cross-references, not copies.

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6.1The other desks’ editions of this subject

Federation: each desk writes its own edition for the subjects in its remit. Until a desk releases, its edition shows its frame and the reading this edition printed for it.

Desk	Edition	State
GCRI Systems Evidence	No edition of this subject at this desk in the 2026 Baseline cycle	Not in this cycle
GRF Public Deliberation	No edition of this subject at this desk in the 2026 Baseline cycle	Not in this cycle
GRA Capital Readiness	Outside this desk’s remit	Not in remit
Standards Progress	Outside this desk’s remit	Not in remit
Academy Capability	Outside this desk’s remit	Not in remit
Index Measurement	No edition of this subject at this desk in the 2026 Baseline cycle	Not in this cycle

6.2Three lenses

One edition, read by each steward. The lens of this site comes first.

GCRI · KEY T

Technical Truth

The evidence supports a reading of Oceania-Pacific risk as exposure and access: warm oceans and sea level act on coasts, power and health together. Evidence is strongest for population, emissions, electricity access and ocean warmth, and weakest for losses, sea-level rates and the condition of reefs.

CLI-001 · CLI-006 · ENE-005 · SYS-012

GRF · KEY M

Public Meaning

For most people risk arrives as a cyclone warning, a hot week or a fuel shortage. The baseline asks that public debate weigh how distance and thin access make one island’s event a regional concern.

CLI-007 · ENE-005 · FOO-009

GRA · KEY F

Capital Meaning

Readiness implications only. Loss series by country are not bound, and the Asian Development Bank frames resilience in its Pacific monitor²⁵. These show where finance-readiness evidence will matter. Nothing here is advice, a rating or an endorsement.

CLI-006 · SYS-012

NEXUS

Synthesis

Oceania-Pacific has strong statistics for Australia and a clear ocean-warming record, and thin national data for island states. The 2027 programme should bind loss, sea-level and fuel-stock data, test the cyclone season, and ask the registry whether Pacific states can be admitted.

SYS-012 · A-01 · A-02

6.3Standards, Academy and steward contributions

How the Nexus Standards drafts, the Risk Academy and the three stewards feed each quarterly edition for Oceania-Pacific. The standards are preparatory working drafts (October 2026) and are cited as drafts, never as adopted standards.

Table 6.1The quarterly rhythm every edition follows
Quarter	Edition	Question	Boundary
Q1	State and Agenda	What matters this year, and what is the starting position?	observed baseline stays distinct from planned work
Q2	Evidence and Build	What new evidence and capability have been developed?	a configured capability is not a validated result
Q3	Stress Test and Readiness	What do scenarios and tests reveal?	simulated loss or performance is not observed impact
Q4	Annual Synthesis and Renewal	What did the year establish, and what changes next?	release follows review, not event publicity deadlines

Table 6.2Who contributes what each quarter
Steward or body	Role	Contribution route
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI Canada)	Lead Institution and Consortium Secretariat; publisher of record; technical truth (key T)	science and practice communities · GCRI gateway
The Global Risks Forum (GRF)	leadership, dialogue and the Universe programme; public meaning (key M)	policy, Universe and national adoption · GRF gateway
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)	finance, insurance and development readiness; capital meaning (key F)	finance and insurance · GRA gateway
Nexus Standards	preparatory drafts on vocabulary, hazards, indicators and methods	Standards site · working groups HAZ, IND, MTH, FIN, AI
Risk Academy	learning pathways tied to the agenda questions	Academy gateway · learning by review
Oceania-Pacific regional pathway	regional pathway: hubs named in the registry	regional Commons room

Standards drafts used in this edition

Risk vocabulary NRS-C1 (424 terms) for terms in the glossary
Hazard atlas NHS-1 1.1.0 (905 hazards in 120 families) for risk objects
Seven risk classes: global, catastrophic, existential, emerging, planetary, exponential, frontier-tech

Standards calendar to watch

Founding calls from 20 October 2026; working groups meet from 5 November 2026
Inaugural Global Standards Council session, 12 January 2027
Quarterly reviews in March, June, September and December, aligned with each edition

6.4GCRI reading: the model card

GCRI’s reading of this edition is its model card: what the national model is, what it computes and where it stops. It is printed in full in Annex A, with the methods it belongs to. Annex A, methodology

6.5Global Risks Forum reading: editorial essays

Four signed essays by the Reports editorial team set out the positions this edition takes. They are interpretation, labelled as such; the evidence they draw on is in the findings register.

Most Pacific islanders live within 500 m of the sea. The baseline treats the coast and the ocean basin as the units of analysis, with countries as the places where effects land.

EDITORIAL ESSAY · 01

Risk lands on the coast first

The Pacific Islands Forum has 18 members, including Australia and New Zealand. This edition reads Oceania-Pacific as the registry defines it and uses the Forum and World Bank series only as reference groups. They are never joined on a code alone.

EDITORIAL ESSAY · 02

A forum is not a region

Electricity access of 20.5% in one country and 100% in another shows that resilience depends on who is connected, not on national totals alone.

EDITORIAL ESSAY · 03

Access is a design question

Several data that matter most for risk, including the sea-level rate, cyclone losses and fuel stocks, could not be read at evidence close. The edition shows each gap and the source that would fill it.

EDITORIAL ESSAY · 04

Gaps are findings too

6.6Global Risks Alliance reading: 2027 regional readiness pack

The registers that open the 2027 regional cycle. At baseline each is initialised from this edition.

Table 6.32027 regional readiness pack
Item	Register	State at baseline	First 2027 entry
E1	Regional risk state delta	baseline set by this edition	changes against the baseline
E2	WEFH+B state delta	five regional system readings set	indicator updates and freshness
E3	Agenda and Portfolio movement	eight agenda items · 7 proposed objects	admission decisions
E4	Federation delivery register	editions in programme as listed in the series registry	regional and sector baselines
E5	Consortium capability register	national consortia forming	first contributions
E6	Leadership questions and challenges	none yet	first challenge log
E7	Foundry technical state	national environments prepared	first federation cut
E8	Publication candidates	twelve findings carried forward	PUBLISH · HOLD dispositions
E9	Universe readiness	one candidate mission	admission and role spine
E10	Correction register	none	first federation-wide cycle

Publication dispositions

Publish
Hold
Needs evidence
Restricted
Superseded

6.7Nexus Standards reading: standards and regulatory watch

Instruments that shape the systems in this edition, by status on the retrieval date. The edition assesses no one’s compliance.

IN FORCE
ADOPTED
SUBMITTED
UNDER REVIEW
PUBLISHED · VOLUNTARY

Table 6.4Standards and regulatory watch
Instrument	Body	Scope	Status	Relevance
Climate Change Act 2022 (Australia)³²	Parliament of Australia	Australia	IN FORCE	2030 and 2050 targets
Australia’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution³¹	Government of Australia	Australia	REPORTED SEPTEMBER 2025	2035 target
2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent²⁰²¹	Pacific Islands Forum	Forum members	DATED AUGUST 2022	regional strategy
Boe Declaration on Regional Security³⁴	Pacific Islands Forum	Forum members	ADOPTED 2018	climate and security
Falepili Union treaty³⁵	Australia and Tuvalu	bilateral	SIGNED 2023	mobility and security
Paris Agreement³⁷	UNFCCC	international	IN FORCE	climate targets
Sendai Framework 2015–2030³⁶	UNDRR	international	ADOPTED 2015	disaster risk reduction
Kunming-Montreal Framework³⁸	CBD	international	ADOPTED 2022	30by30
National Adaptation Plan²⁴³³	Australian Government	Australia	ISSUED 2025	adaptation
Forum Strategic Plan 2025 to 2030²³	Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat	Forum members	REPORTED AUGUST 2026	secretariat work plan

Changed since 2024

The Forum Strategic Plan 2025 to 2030 was reported in August 2026 with six goals²³
Australia’s 2035 target of 62 to 70% below 2005 was reported from September 2025³¹
Australia’s climate risk assessment and adaptation plan were issued in 2025²⁴³³

To watch in 2027

Implementation of the 2035 target³¹⁵¹
Delivery of the Forum 2050 Strategy Implementation Plan to 2030²⁰
Application of the Kunming-Montreal targets by Forum members³⁸

6.8Risk Academy reading: literature and evidence review: science and assessments

The review behind this edition covers peer-reviewed science, regional and international assessments and the institutional reports that bind its findings. Full systematic reviews begin in Q1 2027 for each agenda item.

Review protocol

Question: What does the published evidence establish about Oceania-Pacific’s coupled water, energy, food, health and biodiversity risks across its member countries?
Sources searched: peer-reviewed literature; regional and international assessments; official releases; statutory instruments
Window: releases available at evidence close, 30 September 2026
Selection: sources that bind or contextualise a finding in this edition
Next step: systematic reviews for agenda items A-01 to A-05 in Q1 2027

Table 6.5Science and assessments
Reference	Type	Year	Role	Used for
Pörtner et al. (eds.)³⁹	assessment	2022	framework	impacts and adaptation
Pörtner et al. (eds.)⁴⁰	assessment	2019	context	ocean and coasts
McElwee et al. (eds.)⁴¹	assessment	2024	framework	nexus interlinkages
Zscheischler et al.⁴²	journal article	2018	framework	compound events
National climate risk assessment³³	government assessment	2025	supports	risk framing

Table 6.6Institutional reports
Reference	Issuer	Year	Role	Used for
State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2024¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹	WMO	2025	supports	heat, ocean, coasts
State of the Climate 2024⁵²	CSIRO and BoM	2024	context	Australian climate
Annual Climate Statement 2025²⁹	BoM	2026	context	Australian temperature
Pacific environment assessment⁵³	SPREP	2020	context	islands
Climate risk assessment²⁴	Australian Government	2025	supports	risk framing

Table 6.7Official statistics and regional sources
Reference	Issuer	Year	Role	Used for
Population¹²⁷	ABS and World Bank	2026	supports	profile
Water and life expectancy³⁴	ABS	2025	supports	water, health
Emissions and electricity⁸¹⁰¹⁴²⁸	World Bank and Ember	2026	supports	climate, power
Food, land and protected areas¹¹¹³¹⁵	World Bank	2026	supports	food, nature
National accounts and agriculture⁵⁶⁹¹⁶	ABS and World Bank	2026	supports	profile

Table 6.8Industry, grid and international sources
Reference	Issuer	Year	Role	Used for
Renewable capacity statistics⁴⁵	IRENA	2026	context	capacity
Australia energy review⁴⁶	IEA	2023	context	energy
Quarterly energy dynamics⁴⁷	AEMO	2026	context	grid
Crop report⁴⁸ and basin storage⁴⁹	ABARES and MDBA	2026	context	food, water
Health report⁵⁰ and Western Pacific page²⁶	AIHW and WHO	2024	context	health

Where the evidence agrees

The Pacific is warming and its ocean is hotter, with records in 2024¹⁸
Coastal exposure is high for island populations¹⁸⁴⁰
Compound and sequential hazards load health and services together²⁴⁴²

Where it is unsettled

How fast sea level is rising in the region and what that implies for relocation¹⁷⁴⁰
How much of the Australian emissions change reflects land use, which the series treat on different bases⁸³⁰
How to read island states against a registry that holds one member²²

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

25Asian Development Bank (ed.), Pacific Economic Monitor (series page; latest edition listed, August 2024, Building Resilience the Pacific Way; no figure used). ADB, Manila. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
32UNVERIFIED, not opened: Parliament of Australia (ed.), Climate Change Act 2022 (Cth) (2030 target of 43% below 2005 from a search summary; net zero by 2050 from memory). Canberra, 2022. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
31UNVERIFIED, not opened: Government of Australia (ed.), Australia’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (62 to 70% below 2005; reported in a news summary found by search, base year and date not confirmed). Submission to the UNFCCC, September 2025. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
20Pacific Islands Forum (ed.), 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent (page opened; Implementation Plan 2023–2030; strategy document dated August 2022; regional emissions just over 1% of the global total). Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Suva. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
21Pacific Islands Forum (ed.), 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent: thematic areas (seven areas; 18 members). Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Suva. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
34UNVERIFIED, not opened: Pacific Islands Forum (ed.), Boe Declaration on Regional Security (2018; listed from memory). Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Suva, 2018. Observation year 2018. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
35UNVERIFIED, not opened: Government of Australia and Government of Tuvalu (eds.), Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty (signed 2023; listed from memory). 2023. Observation year 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
37UNVERIFIED, not opened: UNFCCC (ed.), Paris Agreement. United Nations, Paris, 2015. Observation year 2015. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
36UNVERIFIED, not opened: UNDRR (ed.), Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030. UNDRR, Geneva, 2015. Observation year 2015. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
38UNVERIFIED, not opened: Convention on Biological Diversity (ed.), Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Decision 15/4. CBD Secretariat, Montreal, 2022. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
24Clayton Utz (ed.), Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment Report and National Adaptation Plan (law firm briefing, October 2025; secondary summary of the Australian Government documents; the page and other reports give different release dates). Clayton Utz, Sydney. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
33UNVERIFIED, not opened: Australian Government (ed.), National Climate Risk Assessment Report 2025 (existence from search results and from [24]; the department host returned 503). DCCEEW, Canberra, 2025. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
23Pacific Islands News Association (ed.), Forum strategic plan sets six priorities to drive 2050 Blue Pacific vision (news report, 5 August 2026; Strategic Plan 2025–2030). PINA, Suva. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
51UNVERIFIED, not opened: Climate Change Authority (ed.), advice on Australia’s 2035 emissions reduction target (the host returned 503). Climate Change Authority, Canberra, 2025. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
39UNVERIFIED, not opened: H.-O. Pörtner, D. C. Roberts et al. (eds.), Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC. IPCC, Geneva, 2022. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
40UNVERIFIED, not opened: H.-O. Pörtner, D. C. Roberts et al. (eds.), Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. IPCC, Geneva, 2019. Observation year 2019. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
41UNVERIFIED, not opened: P. D. McElwee, P. A. Harrison, T. L. van Huysen et al. (eds.), Thematic Assessment Report on the Interlinkages among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health. IPBES secretariat, Bonn, 2024. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
42UNVERIFIED, not opened: J. Zscheischler, S. Westra, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk et al., “Future climate risk from compound events,” Nature Climate Change, vol. 8, pp. 469–477, 2018. Observation year 2018. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
17World Meteorological Organization (ed.), State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2024 (series page, published 5 June 2025). WMO, Geneva. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
18World Meteorological Organization (ed.), Ocean heat and sea-level rise threaten communities in the South-West Pacific (news release on the 2024 report; 0.48 °C above 1991–2020, about 40 million km² of marine heatwaves, more than half of Pacific islanders within 500 m of the coast, at least 50,000 islanders a year at displacement risk). WMO, Geneva, June 2025. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
19World Meteorological Organization (ed.), State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2024 report launch (event page; launch date 5 June 2025). WMO, Geneva. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
52UNVERIFIED, not opened: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO (eds.), State of the Climate 2024 (the Bureau host returned 403). BoM and CSIRO, Canberra, 2024. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
29UNVERIFIED, not opened: Bureau of Meteorology (ed.), Annual Climate Statement 2025 (national mean temperature 1.23 °C above the 1961–1990 average, fourth warmest since 1910–11, from search summaries; the Bureau host returned 403). BoM, Melbourne. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
53UNVERIFIED, not opened: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (ed.), State of Environment and Conservation in the Pacific Islands: 2020 Regional Report (listed from memory). SPREP, Apia, 2020. Observation year 2020. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
1Australian Bureau of Statistics (ed.), National, state and territory population, March 2026 (released 17 September 2026; 27,921,150 residents, up 392,700 or 1.4%). ABS, Canberra. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
2Australian Bureau of Statistics (ed.), Regional population, 2024–25 (released 31 March 2026; eight capital cities 18,750,888 at 30 June 2025). ABS, Canberra. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
7DATA VINTAGE AFTER CLOSE: World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states (source updated 2026-10-08). World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
3Australian Bureau of Statistics (ed.), Life expectancy, 2022–2024 (released 11 November 2025; 81.1 years for males, 85.1 for females). ABS, Canberra. Observation years 2022–24. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
4Australian Bureau of Statistics (ed.), Water Account, Australia, 2023–24 (released 11 December 2025). ABS, Canberra. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
8DATA VINTAGE AFTER CLOSE: World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (EN.GHG.ALL.MT.CE.AR5), Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states (source updated 2026-10-08). World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
10World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: renewable electricity output and electricity production from fossil sources (EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS, EG.ELC.FOSL.ZS), Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states; no value after 2021. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2021. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
14World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: access to electricity (EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS, 2023) and people using safely managed drinking water services (SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS, 2022; value returned for Fiji only), Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
28DATA VINTAGE AFTER CLOSE: Ember (ed.), Australia electricity profile (page last updated 30 October 2026; 2025: wind and solar 33%, clean 39%, fossil 61%, coal 43%; no 2024 value and no TWh on the page). Ember, London. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
11World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: terrestrial and marine protected areas (ER.LND.PTLD.ZS, ER.MRN.PTMR.ZS), Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states; upstream UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
13World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: prevalence of undernourishment (SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS), Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states; upstream FAO. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
15World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: forest area and agricultural land (AG.LND.FRST.ZS, AG.LND.AGRI.ZS), Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states; upstream FAO. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
5Australian Bureau of Statistics (ed.), Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product, June 2026 (released 2 September 2026; GDP up 0.4% in the quarter and 2.1% in the year). ABS, Canberra. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
6Australian Bureau of Statistics (ed.), Agricultural Commodities, Australia, 2021–22 (final issue; the page carries two release dates; wheat 36 million tonnes, 369 million hectares of agricultural land). ABS, Canberra. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
9World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: GDP, current US$ (NY.GDP.MKTP.CD), and GDP per capita (NY.GDP.PCAP.CD), Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
16World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators: urban population and population ages 65 and above (SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS, SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS), Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Pacific island small states; upstream UN Population Division. World Bank, Washington DC. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
45UNVERIFIED, not opened: International Renewable Energy Agency (ed.), Renewable Capacity Statistics 2026 (not read; the IRENA host returned 403). IRENA, Abu Dhabi. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
46UNVERIFIED, not opened: International Energy Agency (ed.), Australia 2023: Energy Policy Review (the IEA country page returned 403). IEA, Paris, 2023. Observation year 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
47UNVERIFIED, not opened: Australian Energy Market Operator (ed.), Quarterly Energy Dynamics (latest quarter at evidence close not read; the AEMO host returned 403). AEMO, Melbourne. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
48UNVERIFIED, not opened: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ed.), Australian Crop Report (latest edition not read; the ABARES host returned 503). ABARES, Canberra. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
49UNVERIFIED, not opened: POST-CLOSE, context only: Murray-Darling Basin Authority (ed.), Basin water storage (storage on 1 November 2026 not read; the host returned 403). MDBA, Canberra. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
50UNVERIFIED, not opened: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (ed.), Australia’s Health 2024 (the AIHW host returned 403). AIHW, Canberra, 2024. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
26World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific (ed.), Noncommunicable diseases (topic page; about 12 million deaths from noncommunicable diseases in the Western Pacific Region in 2019; Pacific Islands–WHO Multi-country Cooperation Strategy 2024–2029). WHO, Manila. Observation year 2019. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
30UNVERIFIED, not opened: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (ed.), National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Quarterly Update: March 2026 (released 28 August 2026; about 455.6 Mt CO₂e, down 1.6%, 25.0% below 2005; preliminary June 2026 estimate 452.4 Mt; all from search summaries; the department host returned 503). DCCEEW, Canberra. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
22Pacific Islands Forum (ed.), Forum members (18 members, four associate members; Secretariat in Suva). Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Suva. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back

Cite this chapter

Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). Chapter 6: Readings from the other desks. In Oceania-Pacific Regional Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: Baseline Edition, The State of Oceania-Pacific’s Interdependent Systems. (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-REGIONAL-OCP-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

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