Ecosystem degradation erodes the services that regulate water, climate, soil, pollination and disease, and nature loss is now a recognised financial and disclosure risk. This section of the Climate and Earth Systems subsite sets records for ecosystem condition, species and habitat observations, protected-area boundaries and nature-dependency assessments so that disclosure, conservation and risk analysis use traceable Earth-observation and field evidence rather than unverifiable scores. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
NXS-STD-DC-000003Nexus Standards (2026). Biodiversity and nature risk standards: area brief, Climate and Earth Systems (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/climate/biodiversity-risk-standards/ · UNI NXS-STD-DC-000003. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The nexus domains section of Climate and Earth Systems. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.
Hazards and threats 5
Sectors 4
Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).
Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
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Darwin CoreBiodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)proposed register rowIUCN Global Ecosystem TypologyIUCNproposed register rowSpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC)STAC community; OGC Community Standardregister · staccrosswalk3
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem AccountingUnited Nations Statistical Commissionproposed register rowRecommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial DisclosuresTNFDregister · tnfd-recommendationsKunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity FrameworkConvention on Biological Diversityproposed register rowSources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service productspending admission
Copernicus / European Environment Agency · varies by product
Copernicus full, open and free data policy
GRIx governed readregister row exists
ESA WorldCover 10 m land coverpending admission
European Space Agency · 2020 and 2021 epochs
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
GBIF occurrence API and downloadspending admission
Global Biodiversity Information Facility · continuous
Per-dataset CC0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0; Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
build-time snapshotregister row exists
World Database on Protected and Conserved Areaspending admission
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (Protected Planet) · monthly
Protected Planet terms of use (commercial use restricted)
browser-direct readregister row exists
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss (Hansen/UMD) and alertspending admission
World Resources Institute and University of Maryland · annual and weekly alerts
CC BY 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists; the registry row lists NS-0, NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-5, NS-9, NS-11. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 10 rules stated. Read NS-1 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3b · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-5 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11 · The rules for this area
Closed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.
GCRI Canada may admit ecosystem condition and occurrence records that state sampling effort, sensor and licence as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
GRF may record institutions that publish nature-dependency assessments on the shared records as a dialogue item; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
GRA may use nature-dependency and land-conversion records when it screens projects for nature-related risk; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Version and feed state per standard; every row reads source feed pending admission until a register row admits a feed.
Today · a draft in your browserMix standards and clauses into a profile draft with citations; YAML or JSON; nothing is submitted.
Today · from the registryTest suites, conformance statements and attestations per standard; no attestation is recorded yet, and none would certify.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
Records for ecosystem condition, species observations and nature dependency that crosswalk disclosure frameworks without reproducing them.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
This area has a row in registry/subsites.yaml (status planned), so it carries five depth pages and the register crosswalk of its domains.
The rules of each listed standard, read through the specification reader.
Depth · CrosswalkEvery register entry in the area's domains, by relation, with the crosswalk graph.
Depth · Records and schemasScope, record, schema explorer and how a UNI resolves.
Depth · ConformanceClauses, evidence and attestations; no step is a certification.
Depth · ReadinessThe area beside the three pathways, as a matrix.
7 Nexus Standards · 4 domains · 35 external standards · 26 issuing bodies · 2 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.
Crosswalk graph74 nodes and 104 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.
The registry holds no geography for the area itself: areas are not places. The one geography it implies is where the bodies that issue the area's external standards sit.
| Body | Seat | Register entries |
|---|---|---|
| Open Geospatial Consortium | Arlington, Virginia, United States | 4 |
| GHG Protocol | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | 2 |
| International Sustainability Standards Board (IFRS Foundation) | Frankfurt, Germany | 2 |
| ISO/TC 207/SC 7 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 211 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| OGC | Arlington, Virginia, United States | 2 |
| European Commission Joint Research Centre | Ispra, Italy | 1 |
| European Commission on EFRAG technical advice | Brussels, Belgium | 1 |
| European Parliament and Council | Brussels, Belgium | 1 |
| FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (disbanded October 2023) | Basel, Switzerland | 1 |
| IETF | Wilmington, Delaware, United States | 1 |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| Network for Greening the Financial System | Paris, France | 1 |
| Science Based Targets initiative | London, United Kingdom | 1 |
| STAC community; OGC Community Standard 25-004 | Arlington, Virginia, United States | 1 |
| TNFD | London, United Kingdom | 1 |
| UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management | New York, New York, United States | 1 |
| World Resources Institute and WBCSD (GHG Protocol) | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | 1 |
1 subsites: no geography in the registry (areas, not places) · 2 consumers: repositories, no geography · 19 Nexus Standards: documents, no geography · 8 issuing bodies without a fixed public seat, listed not drawn: Convention on Biological Diversity; IUCN; UN Statistical Commission; UN Office for Outer Space Affairs; Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems; IOC-UNESCO Global Ocean Observing System; and more · Programme regions of the ecosystem coverage register: named, not drawn (no coordinates in the registry)
Standards globe18 issuing bodies with a public seat, 35 register entries, H3 cells at resolutions 1 to 4. Seats are city coordinates, not registry fields; subsites, consumers and standards have no geography, so none is drawn. Plate carrée still map; globe with script.
| Area on the sites | Artifact kinds | Governing standards | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biodiversity and nature (GCRI Canada field gateway; GRF and GRA counterparts) | data, dataset, report, map, documentation | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-4, NS-5 | therisk.global/fields/nature/ |
| Ecosystem tipping points, biodiversity loss, pollution | data, dataset, model, map, report | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-5 | therisk.global/challenges/ |
From the ecosystem coverage register: what the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) sites publish on this area, as claimed there and not evaluated here.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them. No Risk Academy faculty pathway is linked to this area yet; one is linked when a faculty publishes a pathway that fits.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Biodiversity and nature risk standards, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.