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Global Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026

The State of Interdependent Risk, Readiness and Frontier Change. The first annual edition of the global report. It fixes the 2026 reference state of the interdependent global system, and the model, voice and positions, against which the 2027 global edition and every series edition will be read.

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Editor
Saeed Valadbaygi
Desk
GCRI Systems Evidence
Publisher of record
GCRI for the Nexus Consortium
بستن شواهد
30 September 2026
وضعیت
Draft in stewardship review; not yet released
گزارش‌هاGLB

ریسک و تاب‌آوری سامانه‌های جهانی

Global Systems 2026

The State of Interdependent Risk, Readiness and Frontier Change

ویراست پایه 2026NR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2026-BASELINEGCRI for the Nexus Consortium
یافته‌ها12each with its status and source
منابع47numbered, editor first
Chapters and annexes11plus the executive summary
نشانگرها19in the data appendix, with CSV and JSON

01 · Status

Status and boundaries.

This edition governs nothing and confers no certification. It records where the global evidence stood at the 2026 baseline. Every value resolves to its source or to its stated method; where neither exists, the edition says so instead of filling the gap.

Publication ID
NR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Series alias
NR-GLB-2026-BL
Family · class
جهانی سامانه‌ها Risk & Resilience · Baseline Edition (inaugural annual)
Lifecycle state
◌ DRAFT, review copy before stewardship review
Publication date
October 2026
بستن شواهد
30 September 2026 · cut DC-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2026-B0
Reproducibility
sourced values cited; analytical values reproducible from stated parameters
Access class
PUBLIC-SAFE DERIVATIVE
داوری
five passes scheduled before release (in Annex C)
Designed for
strategic planning · ریسک جهانی screening · portfolio discussion · research · multilateral dialogue · public communication
Not for
government assessment · official warning · rating · certification · investment advice · underwriting · procurement · operational authorisation
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اصلاحیه‌ها
registry correction pathway · history in Annex C
استفاده از هوش مصنوعی
disclosed in Annex C
Next edition
NR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2027-v1.0.0 · 2027 annual
پروانه
text CC BY 4.0 · data on the terms of each source
Desk identifier
NR-GCRI-GLB-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Collection
NR-COL-2026-BASELINE

02 · Key messages

What the edition finds.

Five of the questions the edition answers, each with its status. The executive summary has all of them, with their sources.

  1. 1.43 °C above 1850–1900 in 2025, after a record 1.55 °C in 2024; 2023–2025 averaged 1.48 °C.

    How warm is the world?گزارش‌شده

  2. Insured losses exceeded US$100 billion for the sixth year running; 2025 losses were driven by floods, storms and wildfires.

    Are disaster losses rising?گزارش‌شده

  3. Half of 2025 losses were uninsured; in Asia almost nine-tenths were.

    Who carries the losses?گزارش‌شده

  4. No: energy CO₂ set a record in 2024, although clean power supplied about 41% of electricity.

    Are emissions falling?گزارش‌شده

  5. 673 million people faced hunger in 2024; concurrent breadbasket failure is a rising ریسک دنباله.

    Is the food system stable?گزارش‌شده

All key messages and the headline finding

03 · Contents

Eight chapters and three annexes.

  1. ·

    Executive summary

    The edition on a few pages: the abstract, the key messages, the headline finding and what each steward reads in it.

  2. 1

    Chapter 1. The world’s risk is entangled, not additive

    Part I describes سامانه‌ها and their couplings.

  3. 2

    Chapter 2. Key findings

    Twelve findings carry the global baseline.

  4. 3

    Chapter 3. Systems and sectors at baseline

  5. 4

    Chapter 4. Risks and capability

    Four ریسک جهانی objects open the portfolio.

  6. 5

    Chapter 5. Concurrent breadbasket shortfall and energy price shock

    A conditional statement under stated assumptions, never a prediction.

  7. 6

    Chapter 6. Readings from the other desks

    The global baseline is read through each steward’s lens, then once as a whole.

  8. 7

    Chapter 7. The 2027 agenda

    Eight bounded questions open the 2027 global agenda.

  9. 8

    Chapter 8. Systems in depth

    One section per system: its state at evidence close, its exposures and what the operational series will watch.

  10. A

    Annex A. Methodology

    How the edition was made: methods, the model card, the evidence cut and its age, the acceptance record and the glossary.

  11. B

    Annex B. Data appendix

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

  12. C

    Annex C. References and record

    Every source the edition rests on, the publication record, the corrections log and the open record.

List of figures (4)
  1. S.1Natural-disaster losses in 2025 (US$ billion)
  2. 1.1Where did 2025’s natural-disaster losses fall? Overall losses by region (US$ billion)
  3. 1.2Couplings across the six sectors
  4. 2.1Natural-disaster losses in 2025 (US$ billion)
List of tables (43)
  1. 1.1Coupling matrix: from the row system to the column system
  2. 1.2Pairs of systems where both directions are rated strong
  3. 3.1Each domain read in words, not scored
  4. 3.2Sectors: baseline evidence and the exposure to watch
  5. 4.1Capabilities on the ladder of evidence: listed, exists, demonstrated, tested
  6. 6.12027 global readiness pack
  7. 6.2Standards and regulatory watch
  8. 6.3Assessments and peer-reviewed science
  9. 6.4Institutional flagships
  10. 6.5UN and multilateral statistics
  11. 6.6Industry, energy and nature data
  12. 7.1Objects proposed for the first operational quarter
  13. 7.2Universe 2027, evidence pack for the global candidate mission
  14. 7.3Handoffs and routing
  15. 7.4Routing rules by publication class
  16. 7.5Feeds watched from 2027
  17. 7.6Signals at baseline
  18. 8.1State at baseline
  19. 8.2State at baseline
  20. 8.3State at baseline
  21. 8.4State at baseline
  22. 8.5State at baseline
  23. A.1روش‌ها
  24. A.2Coupling strength scale (matrix and model card)
  25. A.3Status grammar
  26. A.4From the baseline cut to the federation cut
  27. A.5Evidence age and coverage
  28. A.6Coverage by system at baseline
  29. A.7Quality dimensions at baseline
  30. A.8Publication acceptance record
  31. A.9The status every value carries
  32. A.10Series terms
  33. A.11Abbreviations used in this edition
  34. A.12Technical annex
  35. B.1Global baseline indicator set
  36. B.2Global baseline indicator set
  37. B.3Global source register
  38. B.4Regional reading, ten regional clusters
  39. B.5How countries appear in the global edition
  40. B.6National Baseline Editions in the 2026 programme
  41. B.7Licences of each kind of material
  42. B.8This edition in every format
  43. C.1Release path for this version

04 · GCRI reading

How GCRI reads this edition.

The evidence supports an entangled reading of ریسک جهانی. Warming and losses set records in the same years; frequency, not one peak event, drives losses; and the five core سامانه‌ها share dependence on water, energy and land. Evidence is strongest for climate and losses, and weakest for digital dependencies and tipping proximity.

CLI-001 · FIN-002 · CLI-010 · SYS-012

Chapter 6, lenses and readings

05 · Publication record

Version, dates and contributors.

The identity of this edition as its title pages record it. A review copy has no DOI; the DOI is issued at deposit.

Publication ID
NR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
نسخه
1.0.0, review copy
Edition date
بستن شواهد
وضعیت
Draft under stewardship review; not yet released
Editor
Saeed Valadbaygi
Publisher of record
The ⁨Global Centre for Risk and Innovation⁩ (⁨GCRI⁩)
Licence of the text
CC BY 4.0
DOI
Issued at deposit, on release
Previous edition
none, first edition of the series
Next edition
NR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2027-v1.0.0

Contributors

نقشContributionBy
ConceptualisationSeries architecture and the global system modelS. Valadbaygi (ed.)
روش‌شناسیBaseline method, dependency scoring and status grammarگزارش‌ها editorial team, GCRI
Investigation · data curationSource review of global assessments, UN statistics and loss data to evidence closeReports editorial team, GCRI
Writing, original draftAll chapters; AI-assisted drafting, disclosed belowEditor · editorial team
Writing, review and editingFive review passes before releaseSteward reviewers (scheduled)
VisualisationPages, figures and tables in the Nexus design standardReports editorial team, GCRI
نظارتEdition governance, registry record and depositS. Valadbaygi (ed.)

داوری پیش از انتشار

قبولدامنهByوضعیت
1Scientific and technicalGCRI · key Tزمان‌بندی‌شده
2Reproducibility of analytical valuesGCRI · key Tزمان‌بندی‌شده
3Public meaning and claimsThe Global Risks Forum (GRF) · key Mزمان‌بندی‌شده
4Finance-readiness boundaryThe Global Risks Alliance (GRA) · key Fزمان‌بندی‌شده
5Regional context and safeguardsRegional consortia · key Nزمان‌بندی‌شده

AI assistance was used for drafting, consistency checks and page composition. Every number, citation and status label was checked against its source by the editorial team before freeze. No AI system is recorded as an author or a reviewer, and no AI output is printed as fact without a source.

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Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). Global Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: The State of Interdependent Risk, Readiness and Frontier Change (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/glb/
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Valadbaygi, Saeed, ed. Global Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: The State of Interdependent Risk, Readiness and Frontier Change. Baseline Edition 2026. Nexus Reports NR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2026-BASELINE. Draft under review. Toronto: The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), 2026. https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/glb/.
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  editor      = {Valadbaygi, Saeed},
  title       = {{Global Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026}: The State of Interdependent Risk, Readiness and Frontier Change},
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  address     = {Toronto},
  year        = {2026},
  type        = {Nexus Reports, Baseline Edition 2026},
  number      = {NR-GLOBAL-SYSTEMS-2026-BASELINE},
  note        = {Draft under stewardship review; not yet released. DOI assigned at deposit},
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