GRF · Regional cooperation
Isifunda sase-Asia nasePacific
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.
Questions that cross borders in Asia and the Pacific.
| Shared system | Question for regional work |
|---|---|
| Glacier-fed and monsoon basins | How will changes in snowmelt, monsoon timing and groundwater use alter water, power and food security across the Indus, Ganges-Brahmaputra and Mekong ezinqamula? |
| Semiconductor and electronics networks | Which fabrication, materials and logistics nodes are single points of failure for regional and global production? |
| Maritime chokepoints and ports | How would disruption at a strait or hub port propagate through energy imports, food and manufacturing? |
| Typhoon, cyclone and seismic hazards | Where do compound hazards meet dense exposure and limited restoration capacity? |
| Island connectivity | How 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.
Water now in Asia.
Rain, flood water and population density over Asia, from NASA GIBS. Each layer carries its own date.
Imephu esebenzisanayo idinga i-JavaScript; uhlu lwezendlalelo nemithombo luphansi.
Izendlalelo 3
Water now, for this page
About this layer
- Ubufakazi
- Estimated
- Umthombo
- GPM IMERG (NASA GES DISC)
- Provider
- NASA GES DISC
- Licence
- Idatha evulekile ye-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
- Ubufakazi
- Observed (clouds leave gaps)
- Umthombo
- VIIRS Global Flood Product (NASA LANCE)
- Provider
- NASA LANCE
- Licence
- Idatha evulekile ye-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
- Ubufakazi
- Estimated
- Umthombo
- 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
- Ubufakazi
- Observed
- Umthombo
- GHRSST MUR25 (NASA JPL PO.DAAC)
- Provider
- NASA JPL PO.DAAC
- Licence
- Idatha evulekile ye-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 coral bleaching alert.
- Reached through
- this site's data relay, from gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov
About this layer
- Ubufakazi
- Modelled
- Umthombo
- SMAP Level 4 (NASA NSIDC DAAC)
- Provider
- NASA NSIDC DAAC
- Licence
- Idatha evulekile ye-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
- Ubufakazi
- Observed
- Umthombo
- GHRSST MUR (NASA JPL PO.DAAC)
- Provider
- NASA JPL PO.DAAC
- Licence
- Idatha evulekile ye-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
Ikhibhodi, kugxilwe emephini
Bamba u-Ctrl noma u-⌘ bese uskrola ukuze usondeze
Okutholakala kwakamuva
NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth
Iyalayisha izithombe zakamuva ze-NASA.
Donsa ukuze unyakazise. U-Ctrl noma u-⌘ bese uskrola, ucindezele ngeminwe emibili noma izinkinobho ukuze usondeze; beka isikhombi ukuze ubone amanani aphansi kwaso; ukusetha kabusha kubuyisela esifundeni.
Water now, framed on Asia.Imikhiqizo yesathelayithi nemodeli njengoba i-NASA iyishicilela, ngayinye nosuku lwayo. Ziyizikhombisi, ayisikho ukuhlolwa kwanoma yiphi indawo.
Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONET · NASA GPM IMERG Early · U.S. Geological SurveyImithombo namalayisense
- 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). Idatha evulekile ye-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). Idatha evulekile ye-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). Idatha evulekile ye-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). Idatha evulekile ye-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). Idatha evulekile ye-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). Idatha evulekile ye-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. Idatha evulekile ye-NASA
- Kwenziwe nge-Natural Earth. Idatha yamamephu yamahhala ye-vector ne-raster ku-naturalearthdata.com. Esizindeni somphakathi
- © 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). Idatha evulekile ye-NASA
- Umongo ephaseleni nasemephini oyisicaba: amagoda olwandle, imingcele, imigwaqo namagama ezindawo avela emaleyeni ereferensi e-NASA GIBS (idatha ye-OpenStreetMap, ODbL, © abafaki be-OpenStreetMap); izithombe ze-Blue Marble njengesisekelo ongasikhetha; umhlaba we-3D nokufundwa kokuphakama okuvela enkombeni yombala wokuphakama ye-ASTER GDEM (amakilasi e-5 m kuya ku-200 m, andiswe ukuze afundeke kahle). Imingcele idwetshwe njengoba ishicilelwe futhi ayisho sikhundla ngasiphi isifunda.
- Imicimbi eqondene nesikhathi samanje: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); imicimbi iyisikhombisi kuphela futhi igcina izixhumanisi zomthombo wayo wokuqala.
- Bukhoma: NASA EONET Imicimbi iyisikhombisi, akuyizixwayiso zesiphathimandla.
- 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).
- Bukhoma: U.S. Geological Survey Imicimbi iyisikhombisi, akuyizixwayiso zesiphathimandla.
- 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).
- Isibikezelo sokugcwala komfula, izinsuku ezingu-30 ngobubanzi (GloFAS nge-Open-Meteo): Iqukethe ulwazi lwe-Copernicus Emergency Management Service olushintshiwe lwango-2026; akusona isexwayiso sezikhukhula.
- 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..
- Idatha yesimo sezulu ivela ku-Open-Meteo.com (https://open-meteo.com/), enelayisense ye-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.
Izendlalelo nezinsuku
- Izinga lemvula, isilinganiso sosuku: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Okt 2026
- Amanzi esikhukhula, inhlanganisela yezinsuku ezi-3: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Okt 2026
- Ukuminyana kwabantu, 2020: Abantu: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · okungashintshi
- 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
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.
Where cooperation is tested most.
| Umbuzo | Why 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.
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 hub | Programme focus | State |
|---|---|---|
| India | Monsoon and heat, river ezinqamula, food, health, digital infrastructure, grids and Indian Ocean connections | Planned |
| Singapore | Import dependencies, ports, urban continuity, digital systems and finance | Planned |
| Japan | Seismic and tsunami resilience, manufacturing, robotics, ageing, energy and supply chains | Planned |
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.
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.
Shared-system dialogues
Documented dialogues among the authorities, operators and communities who share a basin, corridor or cable route, with agreements and dissent recorded.
Regional roles in formation
Regional leadership roles are in formation; their scope is published only once adopted. See Ubuholi bezifunda.
Chokepoint missions
Regional missions, such as a port or strait disruption cascading into energy and food imports, can be proposed to I-Universe 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.
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.
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: I-Afrika, Europe and Eurasia and the full list on Regional 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.
Are Pacific island states part of this region?
Is the East Asia programme of the Nexus Consortiums operating?
How does my institution take part in Asia and the Pacific?
Are there results for this region yet?
Bring a governance question to the Forum.
Information and enquiries are open today. 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.
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