The Global Risks Forum Swiss association Public-good institution
Leadership, dialogue and governance of the annual programme

Stronger institutions for interconnected risks.

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is a Swiss association and public-good institution that brings leaders and institutions together on shared risk. It convenes councils and dialogues through the year and governs Nexus Universe, the annual programme designed so that selected work is built, tested and learned from before a crisis does the testing.

Discuss cooperation Explore the annual programme
Leads
Leadership, institutional dialogue and governance of the Nexus Universe programme
Legal form
A Swiss association with a public-good, not-for-profit purpose, published location Zug
Works with
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) and the Global Risks Alliance (GRA), the other pillar institutions of the Nexus Consortium
Never
Regulates, finances, procures or certifies
World mapThe world's land and country boundaries, for context.
distance to the programme region anchorOuterRegionalNearCore

GRF · institution · fieldDESIGN FIGURE

Convening networkThe Consortium Secretariat's links to the six programme regions; cells shaded by distance to each region's population-weighted anchor. Not venues or commitments.

Platforms
12
12 established
Regions
6
In the consortium geography
Planned hubs
15
Coordination roles, not offices
Programme gates
8
G0 to G7 in each annual cycle
01The Forum

Where institutions agree how shared risks are governed, before a crisis decides for them.

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is an independent Swiss association and a steward of the Consortium with GCRI. It convenes leaders and institutions through the year and governs Nexus Universe, the annual programme.

About the Forum

GRF · Programme

Programme year, G0 to G7

Consortium · Governance · Councils · Dialogues · Programme year · Platforms · Standards · Reports · Take part · Universe year · Action Week · Handoffs · Programme states · The programme year · A national mission · Mission admission · Data and resources qualified · Build accepted for exercise · Action Week live operation · Stand-down and evidence sealed · Publication authorised · Correction and renewal · The Nexus cycle · National Nexus · Regional programmes · Working groups · Competence Cells and CERT · Joining as institution · Governance dialogues · Nexus Reports · Risk Academy · Finance readiness dossier · The Nexus Consortium · Twenty-seven phase cycle · Executable annual cycle · Complaint and appeal · Founding and institutional establishment · Consortium formation lifecycle · Constitutional amendment · Independent review and appeal · Correction and contestability · Registry entry · Body charter and council · Succession · Public interest and anti-capture · External authority hand-off · Funding · Public transparency · Universe gates G0 to G7 · Forming the annual agenda · NNC membership · Year-One leadership pathway · Public-authority interface and delegation · Annual Universe operating cycle · Participation campaign · Programme governance · Policy cycle · Deliberation · Exercise cycle · Cross-border dialogue · Convening · Working group

Prepared for a year, built in a month, tested in a week and stood down in a day, with each gate recorded by GRF.

  1. 01 Q1 · Planning

    1. 01National questionsStart · National DesksNational Desks collect material questions, capability gaps and candidate missions.
    2. 02G0 · Annual programme authorisedGate · The Global Risks ForumGRF authorises scope, participating structures, evaluation questions and publication intentions.

  2. 02 Q2 · Readiness and build

    1. 03G1 · Missions admittedGate · The Global Risks ForumGRF admits missions with reasons recorded, after testing inclusion, institutional fit and public purpose.
    2. 04G2 · Data and resources qualifiedGate · GCRI technical officeSources, people and resources are qualified. Risk Academy runs the qualification courses.
    3. 05G3 · Build accepted for exerciseGate · The Global Risks ForumGCRI builds in one month and delivers the Core Build Report. GRF accepts the build for exercise.

  3. 03 Q3 · Action Week and closeout

    1. 06G4 · Controlled live operation authorisedGate · The Global Risks ForumControlled exercises run in ten tracks for one week. Nothing simulated is reported as observed impact.
    2. 07Stand-downStep · Nexus UniverseNew work stops, temporary access is revoked and transferable evidence is sealed.
    3. 08G5 · Evidence sealed and stand-down recordedGate · GCRI and Risk AcademyThe evidence is sealed and completion records are written. Exceptions are recorded with owners.
    4. 09After-action reviewRecord · GRF and GCRIWhat worked, what failed and what was not tested is reviewed. Findings go to Reports (F04).

  4. 04 Q4 · Reporting and renewal

    1. 10G6 · Publication authorisedGate · The Global Risks ForumGRF authorises publication of reviewed results. GCRI publishes the Q4 synthesis in Nexus Reports.
    2. 11G7 · Renewal reviewedGate · The Global Risks ForumGRF reviews renewal. The NNC and NLC set next priorities at their quarterly alignment.

The programme year · Decision rights · Programme governanceAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.

Risks connect faster than institutions cooperate.

A heatwave strains a power grid, a hospital and a food supply at the same time. A cyber incident in one country halts ports and payments in several. The institutions that must respond are divided by mandate, sector and border, and they rarely practise together before the moment they need each other.

Shared risks have no single owner

River basins, grids, supply corridors and digital systems cross jurisdictions. No ministry, regulator or operator can govern them alone, and gaps between mandates are where failures spread.

Cooperation is improvised in a crisis

Roles, data-sharing and decision rights are often agreed only after an emergency begins. Institutions that have never tested their arrangements discover the weaknesses at the worst time.

Dialogue rarely leaves a record

Conferences produce statements, not commitments that anyone can follow up. Without records of what was agreed, by whom and with what dissent, the same questions return every year.

What it answers for

  1. Convenes leaders and institutions around the annual agenda.
  2. Governs the Nexus Universe programme within its instruments.
  3. Tests inclusion, institutional fit and public-purpose legitimacy of selected missions.
Leadership, convening and Universe governance
GRF within its instruments
Official decisions and execution
The relevant government, operator or licensed institution

Risk management

Governance, leadership, preparedness and the annual programme that brings institutions together to test decisions before a crisis does.

  • 01Risk governanceBoard, ministry and institutional risk oversight
  • 02Preparedness and exercisesScenario exercises, early action and readiness reviews
  • 03Cross-border cooperationShared rivers, grids, ports and supply corridors
  • 04Leadership developmentLeaders, specialists and workforce capability
  • 05Annual programmeA year of preparation, a week of testing

Legal form and limits

  • GRF convenes and governs programmes. It does not regulate, finance, procure or certify, and hosting or sponsorship confers no authority over findings.

Three institutions, one coordinated programme.

The Nexus systems are operated at national and regional level by Nexus Consortiums through their host and lead organizations, within a multilateral programme led by three pillar not-for-profit institutions: The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), on a public-private-planet partnership.

InstitutionLeads onWhere to go
Global Risks Forum (GRF)Leadership, institutional dialogue and governance of the Nexus Universe programmeAbout GRF
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), through GCRI US in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in OntarioResearch, development and policy research; GCRI Canada leads the Consortium as its Secretariat and global contracting partyAbout GCRI
Global Risks Alliance (GRA)Translating risk evidence into the questions finance, insurance and development institutions ask, never an approvalFinance readiness at GRA
02Live map

People and hazards, now

Where people live, night-time lights and the floods and fires that public institutions answer to, from NASA satellites, with elevation and live natural events. Switch layers, draw an area and export an image with its citations.

The interactive map needs JavaScript; the layer list and sources are below.

Layers 2

People and hazards

Latest available

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

Loading the latest NASA imagery.

Drag to move. Ctrl or ⌘ and scroll, pinch or the buttons to zoom; hover for the values under the pointer; reset returns to the region.

People and hazards, framed on the Rhine and the Alps.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date. They are indicators, not assessments of any place.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONETSources 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
  • 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). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. CC BY 4.0
  • 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
  • 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
  • NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles 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). Cite as: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. 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 events: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); events are indicative and keep their original source links.
  • Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not authority warnings.
  • NASA GIBS: 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).
  • Optional layers (3 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

  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

03Build and read risk

Build a live risk picture, then read what cooperation has to hold.

Coupled risk, applied response.

The sectors a policy on drought has to coordinate: a choice in one ministry lands in the others.

Choose a context

ACoupled risk across six sectors10 / 15 relations

Sectors · DroughtStress

BApplied response across six pillars18 / 18 handoffs

Pillars · DroughtKPI

In this contextDependence or handoff, heavier is strongerOutside this context

Context

Drought

Low river flows cut irrigation, cooling water and hydropower at once; food prices, nutrition and ecosystems follow.

W · E · I · F · H · B

Risk

Sectors
5 of 6
Relations
10 of 15
Coupling
0.68 share of total

Hover a corner, a line or a row to trace it across both sides.

Route

Applied to drought

L · F · U · S · R · A

Response

Pillars
6 of 6
Handoffs
18 of 18
Loops
17 closed

Expected value

What is at stake
–no published benchmark
Return on resilience
$7.1Tnet benefitsGlobal Commission on Adaptation, Adapt Now, 2019
Avoided loss
–no published benchmark

Hover a pillar, a line or a row to read how it is applied.

A: a teaching cascade (shock 0.6, gain 0.35, four rounds) over teaching values for a typical city-region, not measurements. B: illustrative applications and the KPI each pillar answers for; values are published benchmarks, cited, not forecasts. Open events: NASA EONET, live.

Build a situational picture before you convene.

Choose the layers, hazards and area a decision rests on, then build. The run shows each step and its source, and the map shows where people and systems are exposed now.

Sources: NASA GIBS, NASA EONET, USGS earthquakes, Open-Meteo (ECMWF, Copernicus GloFAS and CAMS), Natural Earth. Coupling weights are teaching values; scores are illustrative, not an assessment.

04Field explainer

One river, many authorities, before and after a shock.

How stress spreads along a river that six countries share, from the Alps to the North Sea delta, on real geography with elevation: the Rhine at baseline, in a summer of heat and low water, and in an Alpine flood travelling downstream. Select a scenario. The levels are examples, not results.

Shared-river field · select a scenarioSources
Shared-river field, illustrative values on real geographyThe Rhine basin from the Alps to the North Sea delta and how stress could spread across the authorities that share it under three scenarios: baseline, heat and low water, or an Alpine flood travelling downstream. Real geography; illustrative levels, not results.
No signalLowElevatedHighSevere
Sea floorDelta, 0 to 10 mPlain, 50 to 150 mUpland, 400 to 800 mHighland, 1,500 to 2,500 mAlpine, above 2,500 mRivers

FieldThe Rhine basin from the Alps to the delta under a low-water or flood scenario. Real geography. The levels are illustrative, not results.

Baseline

Who shares the river before a shock.

Six countries share the Rhine, with ministries, navigation authorities, operators, utilities and cities along it. Each holds part of the decision when the river fails. The Forum is where they agree before it does.

Countries
6
On the river, from the Alps to the delta
Regions
6
In the Consortium's programme geography
05The programme year

Cooperation through the year, tested in one annual programme.

A year of preparation, a month of build and one week of controlled action. Three ways to take part, each with clear limits.

One year of work, tested in one week.

Nexus Universe is the annual operating, integration, exercise and learning programme of the Nexus Consortium. It is not a conference, a trade show, a procurement fair or a funding platform. GRF governs it. GCRI provides its technical office.

Programme calendar · one edition of Nexus UniverseThe annual programme
  1. 01 · One year

    Preparation

    Mandate, calls, admissions and qualified inputs.

    G0 · AuthorisedG1 · AdmittedG2 · Qualified
  2. 02 · One month

    Core build

    Missions built on the shared environment, readiness evidenced.

    G3 · Build
  3. 03 · One week

    Action week

    Ten tracks under exercise control.

    G4 · Operation
  4. 04 · After the week

    Close

    Review, publication and the decisions that renew the agenda.

    G5 to G7 · Close

Eight gates, G0 to G7, each a recorded GRF decision. No edition is on record yet. The calendar is the design of the year.

The four programme decisions GRF holds, within its instruments
DecisionGateWhat is decidedLimit
The annual mandateG0Scope, participating structures, evaluation questions and publication intentions of an editionNever sets a national agenda
Mission admissionG1Which missions enter the edition, with reasons recordedCannot admit a mission without an accountable owner
Gate decisionsG0 to G7A recorded decision at every gate. A gate not passed stops the work it governsA programme decision, never a public-authority approval, a certification or a deployment authorisation
Publication authorisationG6Publication of results that have passed scientific and editorial reviewCannot publish personal data

GRF holds direction and admission. GCRI's technical office runs the simulation environment. Evaluation is assigned to people who did not design the scenario.

The programme has its own Nexus Universe website; the Nexus Universe gateway on this site sets out how GRF governs it.

06Governance areas

Nine governance areas, each with its own record.

Where GRF convenes institutions on shared risk.

Each programme area is designed to bring together the authorities, operators and experts who share a risk, so that roles are clarified and arrangements are tested before they are needed.

Convening

Leadership dialogues

Dialogues among leaders and institutions through the year, each producing a record of what was agreed and what remains open.

AgendaDialogue record
 Preparedness

Risk management and preparedness

National and institutional risk oversight, continuity, early warning and anticipatory action, with roles agreed in advance.

Role mapReadiness review
 Crisis

Disaster and crisis governance

Coordination between public authorities, operators and humanitarian actors across response and recovery.

Coordination planLessons
 Environment

Climate and nature

Institutions responsible for adaptation, nature and transboundary environmental priorities, working from shared evidence.

Shared agendaPolicy options
 Technology

Digital and AI governance

Human oversight, accountability and rights in the use of AI and digital public systems.

Oversight questionsDialogue record
 Health

Health security

Cross-border and public health responsibilities, and the continuity of health systems that depend on power, water and supply chains.

Responsibility mapExercise design
 Exercises

Exercises and simulation

Controlled scenarios with simulation marking, independent evaluators and after-action learning.

ScenarioAfter-action record
 Councils

Council programmes

Structured years for leaders and institutions: baselines, contribution plans, quarterly work and a reviewed next step.

BaselineContribution plan
 Annual programme

Nexus Universe governance

The annual mandate, mission admission, gate decisions and the publication of outcome records.

MandateGate record

Each offer, what it involves and what is available now is set out on Programmes. The technical basis for this work comes from GCRI's programmes.

07Cooperation and routes in

National ownership first. Start with the question you need answered.

Start with the question your institution needs answered.

Most routes begin with an enquiry to the Secretariat and a conversation about scope. Cooperation with public authorities never depends on buying a membership tier.

Public authorities

Ministries and agencies

Bring a shared risk to a dialogue or propose an exercise. Your institution keeps its own authority throughout.

International bodies

Regional and multilateral organisations

Define a cross-border question for the annual agenda, using your own authorised instruments.

Leaders

Individual leaders

Ask about nomination to the Leadership Council at councils@globalriskforum.com; selection comes before any contribution.

Experts

Experts and working groups

Find a bounded assignment in a working group or a specialist platform, matched to your competence.

Institutions

Operators, universities and civil society

Join through a constituency council with a contribution plan and declared interests.

Hosts and supporters

Hosts, venues and sponsors

Propose a venue or support at partnerships@globalriskforum.com, under written safeguards: hosting is not ownership and sponsorship is not authority.

Open now: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference. Applications, contributions, computing allocations and event registration open only when their team, terms and review capacity are in place. See what each step creates on Participate and how GRF keeps itself accountable on Governance and trust.

08Shared fields

Every dialogue stands on shared evidence and shared rules.

The Forum's platforms meet GCRI's science and GRA's finance in common fields. Trace a field across the three institutions, then follow it into the Standards councils adopt, the Academy's courses for officials and the Reports that keep the record.

12 GRF platforms · 23 shared fields · 48 counterpart platformsSelect a field to trace it. Hover a platform to see its fields.
  1. R01Research Nexus
  2. R02Innovation Nexus
  3. R03Policy Nexus
  4. R07Governance Nexus
  5. R04Foresight Nexus
  6. R05Capital Nexus
  7. R06Diplomacy Nexus
  8. R-P03AI and Digital Governance
  9. R-P01Climate and Nature Governance
  10. R-P02Disaster and Crisis Governance
  11. R-P04Health and Biosecurity Governance
  12. R-P05Information Integrity and Public Trust
  1. G11Nexus Reports
  2. G08Labs
  3. G06Nexus Registry
  4. G-P06Trade and Strategic Resources
  5. G-P14Advanced Industry and Robotics
  6. A07Private Equity Nexus
  7. G-P19Systems Science and Modelling
  8. G-P01Systemic Risk Management
  9. G10Nexus Agency
  10. A09Financial Regulation Nexus
  11. G-P08Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems
  12. A-P01Financial Stability
  13. G-P15Economic Development
  14. A-P07AI and Financial Model Risk
  15. A10Sovereign Capital Nexus
  16. A-P08Financial Crime and Fraud Risk
  17. A05Capital Markets Nexus
  18. A-P10Private Credit
  19. A02Banking Nexus
  20. A-P03Disaster Risk Finance
  21. A-P09Public Finance and Sovereign Debt
  22. G-P12Space and Earth Observation
  23. A-P05Payments and Market Infrastructure
  24. A06Development Finance Nexus
  25. G05Biodiversity Nexus
  26. G-P07Oceans and Coasts
  27. G-P17Future of Work and Skills
  28. G-P18Digital Public Infrastructure
  29. A03Asset Management Nexus
  30. A04Fintech Nexus
  31. A-P04Climate and Nature Financial Risk
  32. G01Water Nexus
  33. A-P06Financial Cyber and Operational Resilience
  34. G02Food Nexus
  35. G-P11Quantum Technologies
  36. G-P02Climate and Hazards
  37. G-P03Disaster Resilience and Recovery
  38. A-P02Reinsurance and Catastrophe
  39. G03Energy Nexus
  40. A01Insurance Nexus
  41. G-P09Cybersecurity and Digital Resilience
  42. G-P13Biotechnology and Biosecurity
  43. G-P04Critical Infrastructure
  44. G04Health Nexus
  45. G-P05Cities and Built Environment
  46. G07Nexus Campaigns
  47. G-P16Society and Human Development
  48. A08Institutional Funds Nexus
Fig.Each line joins a platform to a field it works in: GRF's 12 platforms on the left, the fields in the middle, and the 28 at GCRI and 20 at GRA platforms that work in the same fields on the right. The count beside a field reads GRF platforms / counterparts. Source: the Consortium's platform registry (architecture V4).

  • RegistryOpen

    Standards

    The governance standards and shared vocabulary councils and authorities can adopt in their own jurisdictions.

    18foundation348risk20programmes

    Open StandardsWhich apply

  • Learning22 courses open

    Academy

    Courses for officials and leaders on risk governance, preparedness and the policy cycle.

    9faculties118disciplines268courses

    Open the AcademyCatalogue

  • EvidenceCorrections open

    Reports

    The public record of dialogues, exercises and the annual programme's outcomes.

    10series4per year9labels

    Open ReportsSeries

The Global Risks Index

Every figure on this page is indexed: governance, conflict, society, The Rhine and the Alps.

The Index is the Consortium's indexing system for risk data. Every indicator, hazard, series and country profile carries its Nexus Standards identifier, its source and its licence, so what this page shows can be traced, corrected and reused.

  1. 01 · Sources205 registered sourcesEvery value keeps its source and licence; withheld values are counted.Data and licences
  2. 02 · Nexus StandardsNIS-1 and NHS-1451 indicators, 905 hazards; every record carries a UNI.Nexus Standards
  3. 03 · The Index54 series, 195 country profilesComputed on the standards; no value is published until an edition is released.The Global Risks Index
  4. 04 · This pagethe Forum homeMaps, figures and feeds read the Index in the context of governance, conflict, society and The Rhine and the Alps.Public API
Sources205registered, each with its licence
Indicators451NIS-1, 106 composites, 20 domain indices
Hazards905NHS-1, crosswalked to UNDRR-ISC HIPs
Series54global, sector, strategic, technology, thematic
Country profiles195one site per country

Series in this context governance, conflict, society

  1. GLBGlobal SystemsThe state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap…NXS-GRX-AR-000002Conflict · Society · Governance
  2. GSGlobal Policy and institutionsGovernance weakness, state capacity, rule of law, preparedness frameworks and the institutional ability to anticipate and adapt.NXS-GRX-AR-000072Governance · Crisis · Conflict
  3. SRConflict, fragility and human securityConflict risk and escalation, fragility, organised violence, civilian harm and the conflict–climate–food–displacement nexus.NXS-GRX-AR-000075Conflict · Governance · Society
  4. SRInformation integrity and social cohesionInformation disorder, polarisation, trust and cohesion as amplifiers of every other risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000084Governance · Society · Conflict

All 54 series · The 20 domain indices

Country profiles The Rhine and the Alps

CHESwitzerlandAUTAustriaDEUGermanyNLDNetherlandsFRAFranceLIELiechtensteinall country profiles

Every country profile carries the source and licence of each value. Correct a value or reply

Hazard domains NHS-1

Geodata and API open

Open layers on an equal-area hexagon grid, shown as densities per km² or as symbols: People · GHSL 2025People · WorldPop 2025Built-up areaPortsAirportsRoadsRailwaysRivers and lake centrelines

/api/v1/public/grix · https://nexustandards.com/uni/{uni}
Developers · Data · Made with Natural Earth, Public domain; GHSL and WorldPop, CC BY 4.0

Snapshot of the Index registries pinned 2026-10-23 · 22c6eed. Research and risk-analytics information: not a rating, an official classification, a warning, a benchmark or advice.

09Questions

Common questions about the Global Risks Forum.

What does The Global Risks Forum do?
GRF leads leadership, institutional dialogue and the governance of Nexus Universe, the annual programme of the Nexus Consortium. It convenes councils and dialogues through the year, sets the annual agenda with the other pillar institutions, decides within its instruments which missions the programme admits, and publishes the records of what was agreed and tested.
Is GRF a conference or an events company?
No. GRF is a Swiss association and public-good institution. Convening is one of its tools, but its work is year-round: councils, working groups, documented dialogues and the governance of an annual programme whose results are published with their limits. Events are announced only when a host, date and edition are on record.
Does GRF regulate, fund or certify anything?
No. GRF does not regulate, finance, procure, certify, underwrite, rate, invest or approve projects. Decisions remain with governments, operators and licensed institutions, and finance-readiness questions are led by The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). GRF has no contracting authority for GCRI Canada and claims no host-state privileges. It records no external status at present.
How is GRF related to GCRI and GRA?
They are three separate not-for-profit institutions that lead one programme. GCRI leads research, development and policy research and the Consortium Secretariat. GRF leads leadership, dialogue and the Nexus Universe programme. GRA leads the finance, insurance and development-readiness interface.
What is Nexus Universe, and where is its website?
Nexus Universe is the annual operating, integration, exercise and learning programme: one year of work, one month to build, one week to test and a planned stand-down. It has its own website at universe.nexus. The one-day stage remains a planned stand-down until the annual programme records it, and review and corrections continue afterwards. The GRF gateway explains how GRF governs the programme.
How can my institution take part today?
Write to the Secretariat at contact@therisk.global or to your regional desk. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step. An enquiry is not membership, and applications open only when their terms and review capacity are in place.
Consortium Secretariat

Prepare together, before a crisis tests you.

The Secretariat confirms the right route, the scope of useful work and the conditions for any further step. An enquiry receives a reference; it does not create membership, an appointment or a commitment.

Write to the Secretariat Find your pathway
Take part

Take part in the work.

Start from who you are. Answer an open call. Or form and lead a competence cell.

Route

National institutions

Ministries, statistics offices and agencies: a national desk and chapter, and a seat in the working groups. National chapters

Route

Sectors and professions

Operators, regulators, banks, insurers and professional bodies whose work touches systemic risk. Participate

Route

Learning

Courses, practice and certificates of completion. Free to study. Open learning

Route

Standards

Draft, review and adopt the methods and data standards with the working groups. Working groups

Route

Communities and research

Universities, civil society and individual experts: projects, data and review. Write to the team