Readiness and Adoption
Adoption is a process rather than a designation: an institution, a country or a chapter determines what evidence it requires and assesses it under its own rules. This programme sets out the readiness pathways and adoption routes, together with the public tools that direct an enquiry to the relevant route. Each artefact of these areas carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier).
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI Canada) evidence pathway: couples with
data-standards,provenance-and-evidence-standards,conformance-program,research-and-education-sector-standards. - Recognition pathway, The Global Risks Forum (GRF): couples with
gcri-ready,standards-development-standards,conformance-program,regional-chapter-pathway. - Capital pathway, The Global Risks Alliance (GRA): couples with
finance-and-insurance-sector-standards,gcri-ready,development-finance-institutions,conformance-program. - Conformance programme: couples with
verification-services,conformance-and-crosswalk-standards,gcri-ready,institutional-adoption-pathway. - National adoption pathway: couples with
public-sector-and-government-standards,regional-chapter-pathway,sovereign-deployment-pathway,international-organisations-standards. - Regional chapter pathway: couples with
national-adoption-pathway,grf-ready,international-organisations-standards,standards-development-standards. - Institutional adoption pathway: couples with
conformance-program,identity-and-zero-trust-standards,gcri-ready,finance-and-insurance-sector-standards. - Sovereign deployment pathway: couples with
sovereign-stack,national-adoption-pathway,zero-trust-fabric,software-and-supply-chain-standards. - Institutional communities: couples with
gcri-ready,grf-ready,gra-ready,communities-and-learning.
Summary
- Programme
nexustandards.com/readiness/ - StatusIn preparation.
- Areas9 · 4 catalogued
- Nexus StandardsNS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-11, NS-14, NS-0, NS-9, NS-10, NS-13, NS-12
- Open standards34
- Data sources11
- Couplings30 with 8 programmes
Area profiles are proposed.
- Areas
- 9
- 4 catalogued, 5 proposed
- Nexus Standards
- 10
- applied across the areas
- Open standards
- 34
- named and linked, never reproduced
- Data sources
- 11
- listed for reference
- UNI
- requested · allocation in progress
- Status
- Proposedin preparation
- Last reviewed
- area profile
Nexus Standards (2026). Readiness and Adoption: a programme of the Nexus Standards. Proposed. https://nexustandards.com/readiness/. Last reviewed 17 October 2026.
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The programme at work
Its development and participation, the areas it holds, the standards that apply and the channels to related areas.
Routing console and profile composer
Select a sector, hazard family, capability and artefact type: the registry identifies the applicable areas, Nexus Standards and external standards with reasons, and the composer turns the result into a citable draft profile. Nothing is submitted from this page.
- SectorFinance, insurance and capital markets
- Hazard familyHydrometeorological hazard standards
- CapabilityData and datasets
- Jurisdictionany (jurisdiction is not yet tagged in the registry)
- Artefact typeDS · Dataset
4 areas · 8 Nexus Standards · 102 external entries.
Standards that apply
| Nexus Standard | Status | Why it is routed |
|---|---|---|
| NS-0 Constitution and principles | PROPOSED | Finance, insurance and capital markets; Hydrometeorological hazard standards |
| NS-1 The UNI and the artefact catalogue (grammar v0.2:… | PROPOSED | Identification (the UNI) |
| NS-3 Risk record UNIs (grammar, legacy crosswalk,… | PROPOSED | Hydrometeorological hazard standards; Data and datasets; Identification (the UNI) |
| NS-3b Dataset and product metadata profile (STAC, DCAT,… | PROPOSED | Hydrometeorological hazard standards; Data and datasets |
| NS-9 Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme… | PROPOSED | Finance, insurance and capital markets; Identification (the UNI) |
| NS-10 Policies and clauses (machine-readable obligations:… | PROPOSED | Finance, insurance and capital markets |
| NS-11 Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations,… | PROPOSED | Finance, insurance and capital markets; Hydrometeorological hazard standards; Data and datasets |
| NS-14 Conformance and crosswalk to external standards | PROPOSED | Finance, insurance and capital markets |
External standards in the areas’ domains (first 18 of 102)
| Standard | Body | Relation | Access | Why it is routed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS 239 Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk… | Basel Committee on Banking Supervision… | adopt | open | Finance, insurance and capital markets · domain Finance and capital |
| C2PA Content Credentials specification | Coalition for Content Provenance and… | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Provenance and evidence |
| CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance | Global Indigenous Data Alliance | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Data and datasets |
| DataCite Metadata Schema 4.5 | DataCite Metadata Working Group | adopt | open | Identification (the UNI) · domain Identifiers and cataloguing |
| FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship | Wilkinson et al. 2016; GO FAIR | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Data and datasets |
| GOOS Essential Ocean Variables | IOC-UNESCO Global Ocean Observing System | adopt | open | Finance, insurance and capital markets; Hydrometeorological hazard standards · domain Climate |
| Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators (OECD and JRC) and JRC… | OECD and European Commission JRC | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Data and datasets |
| in-toto Attestation Framework | in-toto project (CNCF) | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Provenance and evidence |
| IPCC AR6 Working Group II – risk framing (hazard, exposure,… | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate… | adopt | open | Finance, insurance and capital markets; Hydrometeorological hazard standards · domain Climate |
| ISO 3166-1 Codes for the representation of names of countries and… | ISO/TC 46; ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency | adopt | free-to-read | Identification (the UNI) · domain Identifiers and cataloguing |
| JSON-LD 1.1 | W3C | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Data and datasets |
| OASIS Common Alerting Protocol Version 1.2 | OASIS Emergency Management TC | adopt | open | Hydrometeorological hazard standards · domain Early warning and anticipatory action |
| OGC API – Features – Part 1: Core | Open Geospatial Consortium | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Geospatial and Earth observation |
| OGC GeoSPARQL – A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data | OGC | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Geospatial and Earth observation |
| OGC SensorML encoding standard | OGC | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Geospatial and Earth observation |
| Open Badges 3.0 | 1EdTech Consortium | adopt | open | Identification (the UNI) · domain Identifiers and cataloguing |
| ORCID iD (subset of ISNI, ISO 27729) | ORCID Inc. | adopt | open | Identification (the UNI) · domain Identifiers and cataloguing |
| OWL 2 Web Ontology Language | W3C | adopt | open | Data and datasets · domain Data and datasets |
NXS · Process
Which standards apply
Standard lifecycle · NS-13 track · Contribution channels · IETF track · W3C track · OGC track · OASIS track · ISO and IEC stages · Conformance · Record lifecycle · Routing · Monitoring.
Context tags resolve to programme areas, their standards and crosswalk domains, giving a reasoned list, a profile draft and, if chosen, a change proposal.
01 Adopter
- 01Context tagsStart · the adopterThe adopter selects a sector, a hazard family, a capability, a jurisdiction and an artefact type, each a controlled registry value.
02 Routing engine
- 02Programme areasStep · the engine, deterministicallyThe same registry version gives the same result; each row states which programme matched.
- 03Nexus StandardsStep · the engineStandards are listed with their status as recorded in the registry.
- 04External entriesStep · the engineExternal standards are named and linked; the relation is as recorded in the register.
- 05Relation and access filterGate · the engineEach row states its reason: programme, domain, relation and access.
03 Result
- 06Profile draftRecord · the adopter, from the resultThe composer turns the result into a profile draft for download.
04 Nexus Standards editors
- 07Change proposalOutcome · any person, with identity recordedA change proposal is a change request with the profile record; editors decide with written reasons.
Nexus Standards programme register · NS-14: crosswalk and conformance claims · NS-9: contextual UNIAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.
The operations, as a table
| Step | Phase | Operation | Who | Decision rule | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Adopter | Context tags (start). The adopter selects a sector, a hazard family, a capability, a jurisdiction and an artefact type, each a controlled registry value. | the adopter | tags are registry identifiers: sectors, hazard families, capabilities, categories and, where recorded, jurisdictions | a set of tags |
| 02 | Routing engine | Programme areas (step). The same registry version gives the same result; each row states which programme matched. | the engine, deterministically | sector, hazard and capability tags map to programmes by registry identifier | the matching programmes |
| 03 | Routing engine | Nexus Standards (step). Standards are listed with their status as recorded in the registry. | the engine | the standards each programme lists, with status and rule count | the standards the areas list |
| 04 | Routing engine | External entries (step). External standards are named and linked; the relation is as recorded in the register. | the engine | the entry’s domain is a crosswalk domain of the programme | register entries in the areas’ domains |
| 05 | Routing engine | Relation and access filter (gate). Each row states its reason: programme, domain, relation and access. | the engine | adopt and profile first; paywalled crosswalk, profile and extend relations shown as compatibility profile (restricted) | the filtered list with reasons |
| 06 | Result | Profile draft (record). The composer turns the result into a profile draft for download. | the adopter, from the result | a profile cites every source by identifier and clause; the licence line travels with it | a profile as YAML and JSON with citations |
| 07 | Nexus Standards editors | Change proposal (end). A change proposal is a change request with the profile record; editors decide with written reasons. | any person, with identity recorded | every submission is a change proposal under NS-13 | a change proposal with the profile record |
Table.Each selection lights the operation it feeds; the result keeps its reasons. The table shows the process as specified; it does not report the status of any standard, proposal or record. Sources: Nexus Standards programme register · NS-14: crosswalk and conformance claims · NS-9: contextual UNI.
The routing is deterministic: the same registry version gives the same result, and each row states the area, domain and relation that routed it. Jurisdiction does not yet narrow the result, as the registry does not yet carry jurisdiction tags.
kind: profile schemaVersion: "0.1.0-draft" title: "Profile draft" status: DRAFT nexusStandards: - id: NS-1 uni: NXS-STD-ST-000001 status: PROPOSED clauses: [NS1-R1, NS1-R2] - id: NS-3b uni: NXS-STD-SW-000005 status: PROPOSED clauses: [] - id: NS-11 uni: NXS-STD-ST-000007 status: PROPOSED clauses: [NS11-R1, NS11-R2] externalStandards: - id: stac relation: adopt clauses: [] licence: "Nexus Standards text, registries, schemas and data CC BY 4.0; reference code Apache-2.0" note: "A UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies an artifact; it does not certify it." submit: "a proposal under NS-13, recorded as a public change record"A profile is a draft stating which Nexus clauses and which external standards apply to an artefact or a context; external obligations are cited by identifier and clause number. Validation checks the structure of the draft. Composition takes place in the browser, and the draft is not transmitted.
Transmission channels to related areas and programmes
The systemic couplings recorded for this context, grouped by transmission mechanism. The bar summarises each mechanism (select one to filter); each entry names the connected area or programme and describes the mechanism.
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How a shock travels through this system
A system model of this programme built from the registry: 24 systems, 10 sectors, 16 controls, 11 feeds, 13 indicators. Select the components to include, choose an initiating hazard and run the scenario. Stress propagates through the hazard relations of the Nexus Hazard Standard (NHS-1), the exposure of each system, the recorded couplings and the sectors that carry the loss; adopted standards dampen transmission and live data sources support detection. All parameters are stated assumptions that the reader can adjust; results are illustrative scenario outputs for exercises and training, not forecasts or risk assessments.
Systems and couplings
- GCRI Canada evidence pathway
- Recognition pathway, The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
- Capital pathway, The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
- Conformance programme
- National adoption pathway
- Regional chapter pathway
- Institutional adoption pathway
- Sovereign deployment pathway
- Institutional communities
- Data and datasets Coupling
- Provenance and evidence Coupling
- Research, academia and education Coupling
- Open standards development Coupling
- Finance, insurance and capital markets Coupling
- Development finance institutions Coupling
- Verification services Coupling
- Conformance and crosswalk to external standards Coupling
- Public sector and government Coupling
- International organisations and multilaterals Coupling
- Identity, authorisation and zero trust Coupling
- Sovereign stack Coupling
- Zero-trust fabric Coupling
- Software and supply chain Coupling
- Communities, Learning and Contribution Coupling
Controls
NS-1The UNI and the artefact catalogue (grammar v0.2: domain, sector, region and environment segments)NS-3Risk record UNIs (grammar, legacy crosswalk, allocation authority)NS-3bDataset and product metadata profile (STAC, DCAT, PROV-O)NS-11Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations, zero-trust conformance observation)NS-14Conformance and crosswalk to external standardsNS-0Constitution and principlesNS-9Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme instances)NS-10Policies and clauses (machine-readable obligations: definition, binding, evaluation and enforcement)NS-13Standards development process (open proposals, review, versioning, adoption)NS-12Software, model and AI/ML artefacts (supply chain, model cards, dataset sheets)NRS-U22Universe platform profile: RegistryNRS-U27Universe platform profile: Sovereign Capital NexusNRS-U23Universe platform profile: ReportsNRS-H65Hazard family: Planetary boundary transgressions (NHS-1 planet.boundary)NRS-H93Hazard family: Identity, trust and cryptographic failure (NHS-1 cyber.identity)NRS-H114Hazard family: Macroeconomic and fiscal shocks (NHS-1 soc.macro-fiscal)
Observation
- OpenAlex scholarly graph (listed for reference)
- DataCite metadata (REST API) (listed for reference)
- World Development Indicators (listed for reference)
- IATI Datastore (listed for reference)
- SDG Global Database (listed for reference)
- IMF data services (IFS, FSI, WEO, GFS) (listed for reference)
- NGFS Scenario Explorer (listed for reference)
- OECD Data Explorer (incl. Creditor Reporting System, insurance and pension statistics) (listed for reference)
- GLEIF Golden Copy (LEI Level 1 and Level 2 data) (listed for reference)
- ROR data dump (listed for reference)
- DesInventar disaster loss databases (listed for reference)
- Statistical capacity indicator for Sustainable Development Goal monitoring
- Statistical performance indicators (SPI): Overall score (scale 0–100)
- Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development
- Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
- Amounts provided and mobilised in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilisation goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
- Foreign direct investment, official development assistance and South-South cooperation as a proportion of gross national income
- Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)
- Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework
- Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding
- Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the sustainable development goals
- Number of companies publishing sustainability reports
- Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
- Proportion of individuals using the Internet
Couplings, indicators and sources
The couplings with other programmes, the indicators, the references and the data sources the programme draws on.
Couplings with other programmes
30 couplings link the areas of this programme with 8 other programmes, counted in both directions from the area profiles.
| Coupled programme | Couplings | Example mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Communities, Learning and Contribution | 6 | Most evidence enters from research outputs carrying DOIs, ORCID and ROR identifiers.GCRI Canada evidence pathway to Research, academia and education |
| Finance, Insurance and the Economy | 6 | Projects prepared with development finance often enter the GRA pathway for capital readiness.Development finance institutions to Capital pathway, The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) |
| Trust, Verification and Assurance | 6 | Capital-readiness files in the Readiness and Adoption programme cite EVALUATED attestations from evaluators outside the subject’s boundary.Verification services to Capital pathway, The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) |
| Governance, Security and Society | 3 | A government adopting Nexus Standards does so through the national adoption pathway and its recorded decisions.Public sector and government to National adoption pathway |
| Open Infrastructure and Developers | 3 | The sovereign deployment pathway in the Readiness and Adoption programme uses this package as its reference deployment.Sovereign stack to Sovereign deployment pathway |
| Data and Evidence | 2 | Dataset profiles, licensing gates and record UNIs defined in the data area are the core of what the evidence pathway reads.GCRI Canada evidence pathway to Data and datasets |
| Foundations and Governance | 2 | Open process records (proposals, dispositions, decisions) show how a programme was developed.Recognition pathway, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) to Open standards development |
| Humanitarian Action and Development | 2 | National profiles must stay consistent with custodian indicator reporting.National adoption pathway to International organisations and multilaterals |
Working groups, participation and learning
How to take part, the proposed working groups, the readiness pathways, learning at Risk Academy, the institutions of the network and common questions.
Participation and governance
- 01
Charter a working group
Select an area above, adopt its proposed charter and submit it as a public change record under NS-13; the editors decide with written reasons. Develop a standard.
- 02
Amend an area brief
Propose an amendment to an area profile, citing a peer-reviewed or official source.
- 03
Propose a data source
Propose a source with its provider, licence and delivery path for licence review.
- 04
National participation
Each participating country takes part through its National Nexus Consortium (NNC). The National Standards Council (NSC) decides adoption, adaptation or reference in its jurisdiction, and National Working Groups (NWGs) draft national inputs and run field exercises. Competent national authorities are engaged through official channels.
- 05
Contribute at the issuing body
Contributions to an external standard are made through the issuing body’s own channels; outcomes are reflected here as register changes. Movement and contribution.
Questions and answers
What is the status of Readiness and Adoption?
What is the basis of the area briefs?
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Every figure on this page is indexed: hazards, climate, conflict, the world.
The Index is the Consortium’s indexing system for risk data. Every indicator, hazard, series and country profile carries its Nexus Standards identifier, its source and its licence, so what this page shows can be traced, corrected and reused.
- 01 · Sources205 registered sourcesEvery value keeps its source and licence; withheld values are counted.Data and licences
- 02 · Nexus StandardsNIS-1 and NHS-1451 indicators, 905 hazards; every record carries a UNI.Nexus Standards
- 03 · The Index54 series, 195 country profilesComputed on the standards; no value is published until an edition is released.The Global Risks Index
- 04 · This pageReadiness and AdoptionMaps, figures and feeds read the Index in the context of hazards, climate, conflict.Public API
global, sector, strategic, technology, thematicSeries in this context hazards, climate, conflict
- GLBGlobal SystemsThe state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap…NXS-GRX-AR-000002Hazards · Climate · Conflict
- THDisaster Risk Intelligence (DRI)Signals, observations, event streams, geospatial layers and scenario packs turned into structured risk intelligence for preparedness and planning.NXS-GRX-AR-000111Hazards · Climate · Conflict
- GSGlobal CitiesUrban exposure, heat, flooding, informal settlement, service dependency and the economic weight of cities at risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000068Hazards · Infrastructure · Climate
- GSGlobal ClimateChronic and acute physical climate hazard, transition exposure, adaptation gaps and scenario pathways to 2030, 2050 and 2100.NXS-GRX-AR-000065Climate · Hazards · Finance
Country profiles the world
Every country profile carries the source and licence of each value. Correct a value or reply.
Hazard domains NHS-1
- Atmosphere and weatherNXS-GRX-AR-000135
- Solid EarthNXS-GRX-AR-000138
- Systemic and compound eventsNXS-GRX-AR-000148
Geodata and API open
Open layers on an equal-area hexagon grid, shown as densities per km² or as symbols: People · GHSL 2025People · WorldPop 2025Built-up areaPortsAirportsRoadsRailwaysRivers and lake centrelines.
/api/v1/public/grix · https://nexustandards.com/uni/{uni}
Developers · Data · Made with Natural Earth, Public domain; GHSL and WorldPop, CC BY 4.0.
Snapshot of the Index registries pinned 2026-10-23 · 22c6eed. Research and risk-analytics information: not a rating, an official classification, a warning, a benchmark or advice.
Contribute to Readiness and Adoption
Institutions and experts are invited to charter a working group, amend an area brief or propose a data source. National participation is organised through each country’s National Nexus Consortium (NNC) and its National Working Groups (NWGs); competent national authorities are engaged through official channels.
Status and use. The Nexus Standards are proposed standards developed through an open process under NS-13 and published for voluntary use; they do not constitute certification, accreditation or regulatory approval, and adoption remains a decision of the Global Standards Council and, in each country, of its National Standards Council. A UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies an artefact; it does not certify it. 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. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
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