Global cooperation
The Global Risks Forum (GRF) supports cooperation among institutions that share risks across sectors and borders, always under the mandates those institutions already hold. Countries set their own agendas through national structures. Regional work gathers the questions that cross borders, such as basins, grids and supply corridors. The global programme compares what each has learned without merging data or authority. This section sets out how that cooperation works, from national engagement and regional cooperation to science diplomacy and hosting.
- Institution
- The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
Deliberation desk
Global cooperation · Council of members · Round 3 of 5
Deliberation
- Frame the questionagreed
- Evidence briefindependent
- Hear positionsall members
- Optionswith trade-offs
- Recommendreasons
- Decidemandate holder
Positions
| Member state A | Support | Neutral | Object | Funding concern |
| Member state B | Neutral | Support | Support | |
| Regional body | Support | Support | Neutral | Prefers phasing |
| Civil society | Object | Support | Support | Equity |
Rules
- Quorum
- 3 thirds
- Dissent
- recorded with reasons
- Evidence
- brief EB-56
- Decision
- not GRF's
GRF · Deliberation deskDeliberation desk, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The short answer.
Global cooperation at GRF is support for institutions that share risks across sectors and borders, always under the mandates they already hold. Countries set their agendas through national structures, regional work gathers cross-border questions such as basins, grids and supply corridors, and the global programme compares lessons without merging data or authority.
Jurisdictions in Asia.
The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals, shown for Asia as an example geography for this subject.
Cooperation follows mandates, not the other way round.
Country-owned priorities
National structures keep their agenda authority and may decline participation or data sharing. A country listed in the geography does not, by that fact, have a constituted programme.
Shared systems
Six regions and fifteen planned hubs focus on questions that cross borders. Hubs are planned coordination roles, never offices or territories.
One annual programme
National and regional contributions are designed to meet in Nexus Universe, where admitted missions are tested and reviewed findings are published.
Where cooperation on shared risk already happens.
| Layer | Examples | Where a forum adds value |
|---|---|---|
| Universal bodies | UN General Assembly, WHO, WMO, UNDRR, UNFCCC | Preparing national institutions to implement what they adopted |
| Club and finance bodies | G20, Financial Stability Board, OECD | Connecting technical standards to the agencies that apply them |
| Regional organisations | African Union, ASEAN, European Union, CARICOM, SICA | Cross-border questions under regional frameworks |
| Basin and sector bodies | River basin organisations, power pools, port state control | Operational dialogue among the operators of a shared system |
UN80, the Secretary-General's reform initiative launched in 2025, is reshaping mandates and secretariats; pages here describe bodies by mandate and avoid claims about their future form.
Which route fits which question.
- A question about a shared basin, grid or corridor: shared systems.
- A question that needs evidence across borders: science diplomacy.
- A national programme: countries; a regional one: regions.
What GRF brings to cooperation.
- Neutral convening of the institutions that share a risk, with a record of what they agree.
- Councils for institutions, leaders and expert working groups, each with stated limits.
- Governance of the Nexus Universe annual programme within GRF's instruments.
- Science diplomacy through the Diplomacy Nexus, one of GRF's seven established specialist platforms.
GRF is a Swiss association. It is not a government body, an intergovernmental body or a diplomatic mission, and it does not regulate, finance, procure or certify.
Where to go for each kind of cooperation.
- Nexus Consortium relationshipWhat it coversHow GRF, GCRI and GRA divide responsibilities in one programme
- Shared risks across bordersWhat it coversBasins, power systems, corridors, health and digital dependencies
- Public-private-planet cooperationWhat it coversThe safeguards that keep collaboration legitimate
- Institutional networksWhat it coversHow participating institutions are recorded, with consent
- Science diplomacyWhat it coversResearch exchange and dialogue across jurisdictions
Information and enquiries are open.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. Programme enquiries go to the Consortium Secretariat at contact@therisk.global, and questions for GRF as an association to contact@globalriskforum.com. Country and regional formation is coordinated by the Secretariat, described on GCRI's six programme regions.
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.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Subsidiarity | The 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 governance | Shared decision-making across local, regional, national and international levels of government. |
| Country ownership | The principle that a country leads its own development policies and strategies and coordinates the actions that support them, set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. |
| Science diplomacy | Scientific cooperation, advice and shared evidence used in relations between states, and diplomacy used to enable scientific cooperation. |
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.
Questions and answers.
Does GRF represent countries in international processes?
Can an international organisation cooperate with GRF without membership?
What does a planned hub mean?
Who coordinates country formation?
Around GRF.
Start with an enquiry.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.