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Mandate, publisher and status

Mandate, publisher and status

Climate and Nature Governance is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Forum (GRF). Its mandate is the governance of climate, adaptation, nature and transboundary environmental priorities: the institutions and policy frameworks that hold responsibility, and how they can work better together. This page sets out the forum publisher, the subject mandate, the professional status of the platform and the limits of its role.

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In this dossier7 parts
  1. 01In briefThe short answer
  2. 02MandateInstitutions for climate and nature
  3. 03RemitInstitutions for adaptation, nature and shared ecosystems
  4. 04PublisherWho is responsible
  5. 05Professional statusWhy a dedicated platform, and what it is not
  6. 06StatusIn development, at service level R0
  7. 07Key termsTerms used on this page

GRF · In development · service level R0

STEM methods
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Canonical methods this field applies
Topics
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Subject pages in the field
Counterparts
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Platforms in shared fields at GCRI, GRF and GRA
Report series
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Nexus Reports series it contributes to
01In brief

The short answer.

Climate and Nature Governance is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Forum for climate and hazards, biodiversity and nature, water, and food and agriculture. Its mandate covers institutions and policy frameworks responsible for climate, adaptation, nature and transboundary environmental priorities. GRF publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is in development at service level R0, and activities open as each is ready.

02Canvas

Mandate to authority.

Canvas · mandate to authorityDesign, not a record
How Climate and Nature Governance is governedA mandate sets the platform's scope; an editor and reviewers govern what it publishes; programmes and the community supply the work; the integrity route handles corrections; authority over decisions stays outside. Design of the governance, not a record.

Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.

03Geography

People and hazards in the Andes.

For mandate, publisher and status, in GRF's situational-awareness reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and land cover, framed on the Andes; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.

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Layers 3

People and hazards, 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 mandate, publisher and status, in GRF's situational-awareness reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and land cover, framed on the Andes; 3 further NASA layers wait in the 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 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). 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
  • MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; 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
  • 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.
  • Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Optional layers (5 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
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Enhanced vegetation index, rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra EVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Gross primary production, 8-day total: MODIS Aqua GPP (MYD17), NASA LP DAAC · 30 Sep 2026

04Mandate

Institutions for climate and nature.

The platform exists to give those responsible for climate and nature a shared, comparative view of how institutions work, and a neutral setting in which to discuss what does not.

Field

Scope

Climate and hazards, biodiversity and nature, water, and food and agriculture, seen as governance questions.

Community

Who takes part

Climate governance researchers, environment agencies, regional bodies and conservation institutions.

Outputs

What it is designed to publish

Climate governance dossiers, nature-policy dialogues and adaptation policy briefs.

05Remit

Institutions for adaptation, nature and shared ecosystems.

Climate and Nature Governance is a proposed specialist community, in development, for the institutions that implement the Paris Agreement, the Kunming-Montreal framework, the UNCCD and the BBNJ Agreement on the ground: environment and planning ministries, basin and coastal authorities, protected area agencies and Indigenous territorial governments. Its question is how commitments made under separate conventions are delivered coherently in the same places.

06Publisher

Who is responsible.

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) publishes the platform and answers for its content. GRF is a Swiss association; within the Nexus Consortiums it leads on leadership, institutional dialogue, the annual agenda and the governance of the Nexus Universe programme.

  • Subject editors review topic pages and outputs before release, and record dissenting expert views.
  • The Water and Food Security Governance chapter brings together specialists in water and food security governance within the platform.
  • Rights, status and corrections are set out on trust, rights and status; GRF's wider position is described on GRF independence.
07Professional status

Why a dedicated platform, and what it is not.

The platform serves a distinct practitioner base, environmental governance professionals, with comparative institutional methods. It is a forum and research setting, not an authority.

  • GRF convenes and governs programmes. It does not regulate, finance, procure or certify, and hosting or sponsorship confers no authority over findings.
  • It does not represent any government, negotiate on anyone's behalf or speak for the bodies it studies.
  • Taking part in a dialogue gives no authority, appointment or influence over findings.
  • Climate science is done at The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), for example in Climate and Hazards; financial-sector questions belong with The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), for example Climate and Nature Financial Risk.
08Status

In development, at service level R0.

Climate and Nature Governance is in development. Its pages set out its scope and how it works, and its activities, records and services are published here as each one opens. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.

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  2. 02

    As records exist

    Dialogues listed on dialogues with their scope, participants' roles and outputs.

  3. 03

    When opened

    Working groups and dialogue participation, each with written terms.

09Key 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
Service level R0The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment.
Conflict of interestA situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review.
Nationally determined contributionA country's climate plan under the Paris Agreement, setting its emission targets and actions.
Global goal on adaptationThe Paris Agreement goal of enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability, with targets and indicators agreed by the parties.
10Sources

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.

11Questions

Questions and answers.

Is the platform a separate organization?
No. It is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Forum (GRF), which publishes it.
Does GRF take positions in climate negotiations?
No. GRF convenes and publishes analysis. It takes no negotiating position and speaks for no party.
Can sponsors influence dialogue outcomes?
No. Sponsorship or hosting confers no authority over findings, and support is recorded with its terms.
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