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Rapport 2026 sur les risques et la résilience des systèmes des États-Unis

The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems. The first annual edition of the United States report. It fixes the 2026 reference state, the model, the voice and the positions against which every quarterly edition from Q1 2027 will be measured.

Éditeur
Saeed Valadbaygi
Bureau
GCRI Systems Evidence
Publisher of record
GCRI for the Nexus Consortium
Clôture des preuves
30 September 2026
Statut
Draft in stewardship review; not yet released
RapportsUSA

Risques et résilience des systèmes nationaux

United States 2026

The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems

Édition de référence 2026NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINEGCRI for the Nexus Consortium
Constats12each with its status and source
Sources40numbered, editor first
Chapters and annexes11plus the executive summary
Indicateurs18in the data appendix, with CSV and JSON

01 · Status

Status and boundaries.

This edition governs nothing and confers no certification. It records where the 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-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Series alias
NR-NAT-USA-2026-BL
Family · class
Pays systèmes Risk & Resilience · Baseline Edition (inaugural annual)
Lifecycle state
◌ DRAFT, review copy before stewardship review
Publication date
October 2026
Clôture des preuves
30 September 2026 · cut NQ-USA-2026-Q0-1
Reproductibilité
sourced values cited; analytical values reproducible from stated parameters
Access class
PUBLIC-SAFE DERIVATIVE
Examen
five passes scheduled before release (in Annex C)
Designed for
strategic planning · risk screening · resilience assessment · portfolio discussion · research · public communication
Pas pour
government assessment · official warning · rating · certification · investment advice · underwriting · procurement · operational authorisation
Registre
record NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE · current-version pointer at release
Rectificatifs
registry correction pathway · history in Annex C
Usage de l'IA
disclosed in Annex C
Next edition
NR-COUNTRY-USA-2027-Q1-v1.0.0 · Q1 2027
Licence
text CC BY 4.0 · data on the terms of each source
Desk identifier
NR-GCRI-USA-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Collection
NR-COL-2026-BASELINE · NR-COL-2026-BASELINE-USA

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. Gross emissions were 6,343 Mt CO₂e in 2022; net emissions about 17% below 2005.

    Where do emissions stand?Déclaré

  2. 27 billion-dollar disasters in 2024; the 2025 Los Angeles fires were the costliest feux de forêt on record.

    Are disaster losses rising?Déclaré

  3. About 70% of 2025 North American losses were insured, but cover is retreating where risk is highest.

    Who carries the losses?Déclaré

  4. Heat with drought and fire, through grids, water, health and insurance.

    Which hazard couples the most systèmes?Inferred

  5. Winter Storm Uri in 2021 showed cold can fail power, water and health together; summer peaks now add data-centre load.

    How exposed is the grid?Déclaré

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. America’s risk is coupled, not cumulative

    Part I describes systèmes and their couplings.

  3. 2

    Chapter 2. Key findings

    Twelve findings carry the baseline. They are grouped by system, never ranked.

  4. 3

    Chapter 3. Systems and sectors at baseline

  5. 4

    Chapter 4. Risks and capability

    Four risk objects open the portfolio. Order carries no rank.

  6. 5

    Chapter 5. Western heat, fire and grid summer

    A conditional statement under stated assumptions, never a prediction.

  7. 6

    Chapter 6. Readings from the other desks

    The 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 National 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.1North American disaster losses, 2025 (US$ billion)
  2. 1.1Where does America’s water go? Withdrawals by use, 2015 (% of total)
  3. 1.2Couplings across the six sectors
  4. 2.1North American disaster losses, 2025 (US$ billion)
List of tables (42)
  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. 6.1Q1 2027 readiness pack
  7. 6.2Standards and regulatory watch
  8. 6.3Peer-reviewed science and assessments
  9. 6.4Institutional reports
  10. 6.5Industry and loss data
  11. 6.6Standards, regulation and national official sources
  12. 7.1Objects proposed for the first operational quarter
  13. 7.2Universe 2027, evidence pack for the candidate mission
  14. 7.3Handoffs and routing
  15. 7.4Routing rules by publication class
  16. 7.5Feeds watched from Q1 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.1Méthodes
  24. A.2Coupling strength scale (matrix and model card)
  25. A.3Status grammar
  26. A.4From the baseline cut to the first Foundry 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.1Baseline indicator set
  36. B.2Baseline indicator set
  37. B.3National source register
  38. B.4Regional reading, the United States by climate region
  39. B.5United States system card
  40. B.6Licences of each kind of material
  41. B.7This edition in every format
  42. C.1Release path for this version

04 · GCRI reading

How GCRI reads this edition.

The evidence supports a coupled reading of American risk. Losses are rising with frequency; the grid couples heat and cold to water and health; and insurance is retreating where risk is highest. Evidence is strongest for losses and emissions, and weakest for state-level insurance availability and cross-system dependencies.

FIN-002 · FIN-003 · ENE-006 · SYS-012

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-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
Version
1.0.0, review copy
Edition date
Clôture des preuves
Statut
Draft under stewardship review; not yet released
Éditeur
Saeed Valadbaygi
Publisher of record
Le 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-COUNTRY-USA-2027-Q1-v1.0.0

Contributors

RôleContributionBy
ConceptualisationSeries architecture and the United States system modelS. Valadbaygi (ed.)
MéthodologieBaseline method, dependency scoring and status grammarRapports editorial team, GCRI
Investigation · data curationSource review of national and international releases 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
SupervisionEdition governance, registry record and depositS. Valadbaygi (ed.)

Examen avant diffusion

RéussitePérimètreByÉtat
1Scientific and technicalGCRI · key TPlanifié
2Reproducibility of analytical valuesGCRI · key TPlanifié
3Public meaning and claimsThe Global Risks Forum (GRF) · key MPlanifié
4Finance-readiness boundaryThe Global Risks Alliance (GRA) · key FPlanifié
5Country context and safeguardsNational pathway · key NPlanifié

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.

06 · Downloads

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07 · Cite

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Catalogue keyNR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE

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Cite as

S. Valadbaygi (ed.), United States Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems. Reports, Baseline Edition 2026. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium, Toronto, 2026. NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE. DOI at deposit.

Applied

NS-1 catalogue identity (a UNI is allocated at deposit and resolves to this record), NS-2 citation and attribution, NS-3b dataset metadata, NS-5 figures and maps, NS-12 software and AI disclosure.

Suivi

Corrections are new versions with a published notice; the earlier version stays resolvable.

An attestation is evidence, not a certificate. Nexus Standards parts are preparatory working drafts (2026).

APA 7
Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). United States Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/usa/
Chicago
Valadbaygi, Saeed, ed. United States Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems. Baseline Edition 2026. Nexus Reports NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE. Draft under review. Toronto: The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), 2026. https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/usa/.
BibTeX
@techreport{NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE,
  editor      = {Valadbaygi, Saeed},
  title       = {{United States Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026}: The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems},
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  address     = {Toronto},
  year        = {2026},
  type        = {Nexus Reports, Baseline Edition 2026},
  number      = {NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE},
  note        = {Draft under stewardship review; not yet released. DOI assigned at deposit},
  url         = {https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/usa/}
}
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S. Valadbaygi (ed.), United States Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems. Nexus Reports, Baseline Edition 2026. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium, Toronto, 2026. NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE. DOI at deposit.
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