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Kanda ya Asia na Pasifiki

Asia and the Pacific spans manufacturing and logistics networks, monsoon and glacier-fed basins, and island states facing compound climate and connectivity risk. Regional instruments frame the work: the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response, the Mekong Agreement (1995), the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific (2017 to 2030) and the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent (2022). The region is forming; three hubs are planned, none operates.

01Mifumo ya pamoja

Questions that cross borders in Asia and the Pacific.

Shared systemQuestion for regional work
Glacier-fed and monsoon basinsHow will changes in snowmelt, monsoon timing and groundwater use alter water, power and food security across the Indus, Ganges-Brahmaputra and Mekong mifumo?
Semiconductor and electronics networksWhich fabrication, materials and logistics nodes are single points of failure for regional and global production?
Maritime chokepoints and portsHow would disruption at a strait or hub port propagate through energy imports, food and manufacturing?
Typhoon, cyclone and seismic hazardsWhere do compound hazards meet dense exposure and limited restoration capacity?
Island connectivityHow many Pacific states depend on a single subsea cable or satellite path, and what continuity is realistic?

These are research questions from the regional programme design maintained by the Consortium Secretariat. They are questions to test, not findings, and no result is published for them yet.

02Geography

Water now in Asia.

Rain, flood water and population density over Asia, from NASA GIBS. Each layer carries its own date.

Ramani shirikishi inahitaji JavaScript. Orodha ya tabaka na vyanzo imetolewa hapa chini.

Tabaka 3

Water now, for this page

About this layer
Ushahidi
Estimated
Chanzo
GPM IMERG (NASA GES DISC)
Provider
NASA GES DISC
Licence
Data huria ya NASA
Vintage
daily; Satellite estimate, near real time
Newest at build
2026-10-12
Resolution
about 2 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite estimate, near real time. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
this site's data relay, from gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov
About this layer
Ushahidi
Observed (clouds leave gaps)
Chanzo
VIIRS Global Flood Product (NASA LANCE)
Provider
NASA LANCE
Licence
Data huria ya NASA
Vintage
daily; Satellite detection; clouds leave gaps
Newest at build
2026-10-14
Resolution
about 250 m grid
Uncertainty
Satellite detection; clouds leave gaps. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
this site's data relay, from gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov
About this layer
Ushahidi
Estimated
Chanzo
Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University))
Provider
NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Vintage
null; Census-based estimate, static (2020)
Resolution
about 1 km grid
Uncertainty
Census-based estimate of people per square kilometre in 2020, shown as exposure context; not a count of people affected by any hazard.
Reached through
this site's data relay, from gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov
About this layer
Ushahidi
Observed
Chanzo
GHRSST MUR25 (NASA JPL PO.DAAC)
Provider
NASA JPL PO.DAAC
Licence
Data huria ya NASA
Vintage
daily; Satellite analysis
Newest at build
2026-10-12
Resolution
about 2 km grid
Uncertainty
Satellite analysis of how far sea temperature departs from its usual value for the date shown; a marine heat indicator, not a matumbawe yaliyopauka alert.
Reached through
this site's data relay, from gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov
About this layer
Ushahidi
Modelled
Chanzo
SMAP Level 4 (NASA NSIDC DAAC)
Provider
NASA NSIDC DAAC
Licence
Data huria ya NASA
Vintage
daily; Model with satellite data assimilated
Newest at build
2026-10-11
Resolution
about 2 km grid
Uncertainty
Model with satellite data assimilated. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
Reached through
this site's data relay, from gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov
About this layer
Ushahidi
Observed
Chanzo
GHRSST MUR (NASA JPL PO.DAAC)
Provider
NASA JPL PO.DAAC
Licence
Data huria ya NASA
Vintage
daily; Satellite analysis
Newest at build
2026-10-12
Resolution
about 1 km grid
Uncertainty
Gap-filled satellite analysis of sea surface temperature for the date shown; not a reef or species condition report.
Reached through
this site's data relay, from gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov

Ya karibuni zaidi inayopatikana

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

Inapakia picha za hivi karibuni za NASA.

Buruta ili kusogeza. Ctrl au ⌘ na usogeze, bana au tumia vitufe ili kukuza; elea juu ili kuona thamani zilizo chini ya kiashiria; weka upya hurudisha kwenye eneo.

Water now, framed on Asia.Bidhaa za satelaiti na vielelezo kama NASA inavyozichapisha, kila moja na tarehe yake. Ni viashiria, si tathmini za eneo lolote.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONET · NASA GPM IMERG Early · U.S. Geological SurveyVyanzo na leseni

  • 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Data huria ya NASA
  • 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Data huria ya NASA
  • GPM IMERG precipitation, NASA Precipitation Processing System; distributed by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Data huria ya NASA
  • 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Data huria ya NASA
  • 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. CC BY 4.0
  • 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Data huria ya NASA
  • SMAP Level 4 soil moisture and snow mass, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office; distributed by the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Data huria ya NASA
  • 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 hexagonal 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. Data huria ya NASA
  • Imetengenezwa kwa Natural Earth. Data huria za ramani za vekta na rasta @ naturalearthdata.com. Kikoa cha umma
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Data huria ya NASA
  • Muktadha kwenye tufe na ramani bapa: mwambao, mipaka, barabara na majina ya mahali kutoka tabaka za marejeo za NASA GIBS (data ya OpenStreetMap, ODbL, © wachangiaji wa OpenStreetMap); picha za Blue Marble kama msingi wa hiari; ardhi ya 3D na usomaji wa mwinuko kutoka faharasa ya rangi ya mwinuko ya ASTER GDEM (madaraja ya 5 m hadi 200 m, yaliyokuzwa ili yasomeke). Mipaka imechorwa kama ilivyochapishwa na haimaanishi msimamo wowote kuhusu eneo lolote.
  • Matukio ya moja kwa moja: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); matukio ni ya kuashiria tu na yanabaki na viungo vya vyanzo vyao asili.
  • Moja kwa moja: NASA EONET. Matukio ni ya kuashiria tu, si tahadhari rasmi za mamlaka.
  • Live: NASA GPM IMERG Early. 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).
  • Moja kwa moja: U.S. Geological Survey. Matukio ni ya kuashiria tu, si tahadhari rasmi za mamlaka.
  • 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).
  • Utabiri wa mtiririko wa mito, siku 30 pamoja na masafa (GloFAS kupitia Open-Meteo): Una taarifa za Copernicus Emergency Management Service zilizorekebishwa za 2026. Si onyo la mafuriko.
  • Past year, daily temperature (ERA5 via Open-Meteo): Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
  • Past year, daily temperature and sunshine (NASA POWER): These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program..
  • Data ya hali ya hewa kutoka Open-Meteo.com (https://open-meteo.com/), chini ya leseni ya CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
  • Optional layers (14 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.

Tabaka na tarehe

  • Kiwango cha mvua, wastani wa kila siku: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Okt 2026
  • Maji ya mafuriko, mchanganyiko wa siku 3: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Okt 2026
  • Msongamano wa watu, 2020: Idadi ya watu: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · tuli
  • Sea surface temperature anomaly: GHRSST MUR25, NASA JPL PO.DAAC · 12 Okt 2026
  • Root-zone soil moisture, 0 to 100 cm: SMAP Level 4, NASA NSIDC DAAC · 11 Oct 2026
  • Sea surface temperature: GHRSST MUR, NASA JPL PO.DAAC · 12 Okt 2026

03Frameworks in force

Regional instruments across a very diverse region.

  • The ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response, the first legally binding regional DRR agreement, with the AHA Centre coordinating.
  • The Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific and the Boe Declaration, which treats climate change as the single greatest threat to Pacific security.
  • The Mekong River Commission’s procedures for notification, prior consultation and agreement.
  • The South Asian and Central Asian basin arrangements, many of them bilateral.
  • The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company and the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility for pre-arranged finance.
04Dialogue questions

Where cooperation is tested most.

SwaliWhy it is hard
How do upstream dam operations and downstream fisheries share decisions on a mainstream river?Prior consultation procedures are procedural, not a veto
How do island states maintain statehood, maritime zones and services as sea level rises?International law is still settling the questions; the Pacific Islands Forum declared its position in 2023
How do manufacturing supply chains share disruption information across borders during typhoon season?Commercial confidentiality and competition rules

The Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction is the region’s main Sendai forum.

05Vituo vilivyopangwa

Coordination roles, not offices.

No regional host is on record. An East Asia Nexus Consortium programme page is published by The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) and is marked as forming. Its formation records and participating structures are confirmed by the Secretariat before they are listed here.

Planned hubProgramme focusState
IndiaMonsoon and heat, river mifumo, food, health, digital infrastructure, grids and Indian Ocean connectionsPlanned
SingaporeImport dependencies, ports, urban continuity, digital systems and financePlanned
JapanSeismic and tsunami resilience, manufacturing, robotics, ageing, energy and supply chainsPlanned

A planned hub is a proposed coordination role for shared-system work across a group of countries. It is not an operating site, an office or an exclusive territory, and countries listed in a hub’s scope do not, by that fact, have constituted programmes.

06GRF’s role

Leadership, dialogue and tested arrangements in the region.

Supply chains and chokepoints show why convening matters here. Port authorities, manufacturers, energy importers and public agencies depend on the same nodes but answer to different mandates. For Pacific island states, small administrations set the question and the pace on their own terms.

Dialogue

Shared-system dialogues

Documented dialogues among the authorities, operators and communities who share a basin, corridor or cable route, with agreements and dissent recorded.

Uongozi

Regional roles in formation

Regional leadership roles are in formation; their scope is published only once adopted. See Uongozi wa kikanda.

Mazoezi

Chokepoint missions

Regional missions, such as a port or strait disruption cascading into energy and food imports, can be proposed to Ulimwengu and admitted at gate G1.

Regional dialogue records and reviewed mission findings are designed to inform the Regional Systems series of Reports and the Universe Annual Synthesis. A recurring gap in common methods can be filed as a change proposal to the Nexus Standards.

07State and boundaries

What is in place, and what is not.

  • Programme state: forming. No regional programme decision, host agreement or hub is described as operating.
  • National structures keep agenda authority and may decline participation or data sharing.
  • No regional body binds a country, and withdrawal never erases other parties’ lawful work.
  • The Global Risks Forum (GRF) convenes and records. It does not regulate, finance, procure or certify.
08Contacts and counterparts

Where to go next.

Write to the regional desk, run by the Consortium Secretariat: the contact form (Asia and Pacific desk). The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step. The technical view: GCRI’s Asia and the Pacific region page. The financial view: GRA’s Asia and the Pacific region page. Other regions: Afrika, Europe and Eurasia and the full list on Regional cooperation.

09Vyanzo

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.

10Maswali

Questions and answers.

Are Pacific island states part of this region?
Yes. Pacific island states are part of the region, and island connectivity is one of its shared-system questions. Their participation follows their own national decisions.
Is the East Asia programme of the Nexus Consortiums operating?
It is marked as forming. Its formation records and participating structures are confirmed by the Secretariat before they are listed on this site.
How does my institution take part in Asia and the Pacific?
Through your national programme and the regional desk. Institutions take part through GRF’s constituency councils, leaders through the National Leadership Council (NLC) and experts through working groups. Write to the contact form (Asia and Pacific desk) or the council application form; each acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Are there results for this region yet?
No. No regional dialogue record, mission result or report is released yet. Results will be linked from this page once they are approved for publication.
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