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- Baseline Edition 2026
United States Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026
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.
- Editor
- Saeed Valadbaygi
- Desk
- GCRI Systems Evidence
- Publisher of record
- GCRI for the Nexus Consortium
- Collection
- United States 2026
- Evidence close
- 30 September 2026
- Rewş
- Draft in stewardship review; not yet released
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United States 2026
The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems
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
- Welat Pergal Risk & Resilience · Baseline Edition (inaugural annual)
- Lifecycle state
- ◌ DRAFT, review copy before stewardship review
- Publication date
- October 2026
- Evidence close
- 30 September 2026 · cut NQ-USA-2026-Q0-1
- Reproducibility
- sourced values cited; analytical values reproducible from stated parameters
- Access class
- PUBLIC-SAFE DERIVATIVE
- Nirxandin
- five passes scheduled before release (in Annex C)
- Designed for
- strategic planning · risk screening · resilience assessment · portfolio discussion · research · public communication
- Not for
- government assessment · official warning · rating · certification · investment advice · underwriting · procurement · operational authorisation
- Registry
- record NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE · current-version pointer at release
- Rastkirin
- registry correction pathway · history in Annex C
- Bikaranîna AI
- disclosed in Annex C
- Next edition
- NR-COUNTRY-USA-2027-Q1-v1.0.0 · Q1 2027
- Lîsans
- 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.
Gross emissions were 6,343 Mt CO₂e in 2022; net emissions about 17% below 2005.
Where do emissions stand?Raportkirî
27 billion-dollar disasters in 2024; the 2025 Los Angeles fires were the costliest şewata daristanan on record.
Are disaster losses rising?Raportkirî
About 70% of 2025 North American losses were insured, but cover is retreating where risk is highest.
Who carries the losses?Raportkirî
Heat with drought and fire, through grids, water, health and insurance.
Which hazard couples the most pergalan?Inferred
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?Raportkirî
03 · Contents
Eight chapters and three annexes.
- ·
The edition on a few pages: the abstract, the key messages, the headline finding and what each steward reads in it.
- 1
Chapter 1. America’s risk is coupled, not cumulative
Part I describes pergalan and their couplings.
- 2
Twelve findings carry the baseline. They are grouped by system, never ranked.
- 3
- 4
Chapter 4. Risks and capability
Four risk objects open the portfolio. Order carries no rank.
- 5
Chapter 5. Western heat, fire and grid summer
A conditional statement under stated assumptions, never a prediction.
- 6
Chapter 6. Readings from the other desks
The baseline is read through each steward’s lens, then once as a whole.
- 7
Eight bounded questions open the 2027 National Agenda.
- 8
One section per system: its state at evidence close, its exposures and what the operational series will watch.
- A
How the edition was made: methods, the model card, the evidence cut and its age, the acceptance record and the glossary.
- B
The indicator set with its sources, the source registers, the licences of every kind of material and the formats of the edition.
- 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)
List of tables (42)
- 1.1Coupling matrix: from the row system to the column system
- 1.2Pairs of systems where both directions are rated strong
- 3.1Each domain read in words, not scored
- 3.2Sectors: baseline evidence and the exposure to watch
- 4.1Capabilities on the ladder of evidence: listed, exists, demonstrated, tested
- 6.1Q1 2027 readiness pack
- 6.2Standards and regulatory watch
- 6.3Peer-reviewed science and assessments
- 6.4Institutional reports
- 6.5Industry and loss data
- 6.6Standards, regulation and national official sources
- 7.1Objects proposed for the first operational quarter
- 7.2Universe 2027, evidence pack for the candidate mission
- 7.3Handoffs and routing
- 7.4Routing rules by publication class
- 7.5Feeds watched from Q1 2027
- 7.6Signals at baseline
- 8.1State at baseline
- 8.2State at baseline
- 8.3State at baseline
- 8.4State at baseline
- 8.5State at baseline
- A.1Rêbaz
- A.2Coupling strength scale (matrix and model card)
- A.3Status grammar
- A.4From the baseline cut to the first Foundry cut
- A.5Evidence age and coverage
- A.6Coverage by system at baseline
- A.7Quality dimensions at baseline
- A.8Publication acceptance record
- A.9The status every value carries
- A.10Series terms
- A.11Abbreviations used in this edition
- A.12Technical annex
- B.1Baseline indicator set
- B.2Baseline indicator set
- B.3National source register
- B.4Regional reading, the United States by climate region
- B.5United States system card
- B.6Licences of each kind of material
- B.7This edition in every format
- 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- Guhertoy
- 1.0.0, review copy
- Edition date
- Evidence close
- Rewş
- Draft under stewardship review; not yet released
- Editor
- Saeed Valadbaygi
- Publisher of record
- 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
| Rol | Contribution | By |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptualisation | Series architecture and the United States system model | S. Valadbaygi (ed.) |
| Metodolojî | Baseline method, dependency scoring and status grammar | rêzeya Pergalên Stratejîk editorial team, GCRI |
| Investigation · data curation | Source review of national and international releases to evidence close | Reports editorial team, GCRI |
| Writing, original draft | All chapters; AI-assisted drafting, disclosed below | Editor · editorial team |
| Writing, review and editing | Five review passes before release | Steward reviewers (scheduled) |
| Visualisation | Pages, figures and tables in the Nexus design standard | Reports editorial team, GCRI |
| Supervision | Edition governance, registry record and deposit | S. Valadbaygi (ed.) |
Nirxandin berî berdanê
| Derbas | Çarçove | By | Dewlet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scientific and technical | GCRI · key T | Plankirî |
| 2 | Reproducibility of analytical values | GCRI · key T | Plankirî |
| 3 | Public meaning and claims | The Global Risks Forum (GRF) · key M | Plankirî |
| 4 | Finance-readiness boundary | The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) · key F | Plankirî |
| 5 | Country context and safeguards | National pathway · key N | Plankirî |
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
Read it in print, take the data.
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Web edition
Complete edition, one page
Every chapter and annex at one address, with running heads when printed from the browser
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Indicators, CSV
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07 · Cite
Cite this report.
Standards applied to NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE
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.
Çavdêrî
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/
Çîkago
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},
institution = {The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)},
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/}
}RIS
TY - RPRT ED - Valadbaygi, Saeed TI - United States Systems Risk and Resilience Report 2026: The State of the United States’ Interdependent Systems T3 - Nexus Reports ET - Baseline Edition 2026 PY - 2026 PB - The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) CY - Toronto SN - NR-COUNTRY-USA-2026-BASELINE UR - https://therisk.global/nexus-reports/editions/usa/ N1 - Draft under stewardship review; not yet released. DOI assigned at deposit. LA - en ER -
NR-CIT-1 (house style)
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.
08 · Related
In the same series, and across the Consortium.
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