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Regional applications

Regional subject applications

Issues in Trade and Strategic Resources shared across a region, and the cooperation that addresses them. Each regional application shows its status from the programme record.

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The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
Field
Trade, resources and supply chains, Industry and robotics
Status
In development
Service level
R0: information and enquiries

Workstream tracker

Regional subject applications · Programme year 1

Two milestones at riskGCRI · Trade and Strategic Resources

Workstreams

owner · stage · status

Critical minerals registerPort authorityBuildM6 · week 11On track
Strategic stock reviewLogistics operatorScopingM4 · week 2On track
Chokepoint disruption scenariosTrade ministryReviewM4 · week 27Blocked
Dual-sourcing planCustomsTestM6 · week 15On track
Tier mapping, critical componentsLogistics operatorReviewM5 · week 30Blocked

Effort against plan

person-weeks

Critical minerals…40 pw · req 38Strategic stock review11 pw · req 37Chokepoint…28 pw · req 25Dual-sourcing plan48 pw · req 33

Milestones

  1. W5M1Critical minerals register: scoping note signed
  2. W14M2Inputs qualified at the gate
  3. W23M3Strategic stock review: build review
  4. W33M4Controlled test with observers
  5. W39M5Publication and decision record

Trade and Strategic Resources · Workstream trackerWorkstream tracker, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.

01In brief

The short answer.

Trade and Strategic Resources regional applications address problems in the trade, resources and supply chains field that the countries of a region share, such as critical minerals, and the cooperation that responds to them. Each application is listed with its status from the programme record, and regional bodies and governments keep their own mandates and decisions.

02Canvas

Scoping to review.

Canvas · scoping to reviewDesign, not a record
Regional subject applications: a programme through its gatesA request with a named owner becomes a scoping note; inputs are qualified at a gate; delivery runs in workstreams; a controlled test and an independent review precede publication; the owner decides. Design of the process, not a record of a run.

Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Ocean state in the Strait of Malacca.

For regional subject applications, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on marine heat, night lights, sea temperature and true-colour imagery with chlorophyll-a from NASA GIBS, framed on the Strait of Malacca; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.

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Layers 4

Ocean state, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For regional subject applications, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on marine heat, night lights, sea temperature and true-colour imagery with chlorophyll-a from NASA GIBS, framed on the Strait of Malacca; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · GDACS · NASA PACE OCI · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2ASources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • GHRSST Level 4 MUR analyses, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; distributed by the NASA Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS Aqua ocean colour, NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group; distributed by the NASA Ocean Biology DAAC (OB.DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live: GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA) Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Observed (EO): NASA PACE OCI. We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
  • Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • Optional layers (35 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Sea surface temperature anomaly: GHRSST MUR25, NASA JPL PO.DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Sea surface temperature: GHRSST MUR, NASA JPL PO.DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Ocean chlorophyll-a concentration: MODIS Aqua ocean colour, NASA OB.DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

04Scope

Regional applications in Trade and Strategic Resources.

  1. 01

    Trade corridors and chokepoints

    Ports, straits, rail and supply corridors.

  2. 02

    Critical minerals

    Mining, refining, demand and resource security.

  3. 03

    Food and energy trade

    Commodity security and import dependencies.

  4. 04

    Semiconductors and components

    Electronics, advanced materials and fabrication inputs.

  5. 05

    Logistics and cold chain

    Transport time and disruption.

  6. 06

    Geoeconomics and fragmentation

    Restrictions, market transmission and substitution.

05Regional frame

Where regional cooperation on supply chain happens.

Regional trade agreements and corridors (land, sea and pipeline) define how goods actually move and where shared exposure lies.

  • Regional trade agreements and customs unions.
  • Economic corridors and their infrastructure.
  • Regional coordination on stockpiles and supply security.
06Status

Work is shown as its record stands.

Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.

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07Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
SubsidiarityThe principle that a decision is taken at the lowest level able to take it well, with a higher level acting only where the objective cannot be achieved closer to the people concerned; the Treaty on European Union states it.
Multi-level governanceShared decision-making across local, regional, national and international levels of government.
RefiningProcessing ore or concentrate into a material pure enough for manufacturing.
08Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

09Questions

Questions and answers.

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