Nexus Standards · Roadmap
First official release targeted for 2030
Roadmap to 2030
The Nexus Standards are being developed through an open, multistakeholder process towards a first official release of the full catalogue, targeted for 2030. Until then, each standard progresses from proposal to a first operational version, through deliberation in the Global Standards Council, national discussion in the National Standards Councils of the National Nexus Consortiums, and field simulations and exercises conducted by working groups and host institutions. Governments, competent authorities, standards bodies, industry, academia and communities are invited to take part.
Summary
- TargetFirst official release of the catalogue, 2030
- Council13 voting seats; adopts by two-thirds after a 90-day last call
- NationalEach National Standards Council decides in its jurisdiction
- StandardsNS-0 to NS-16 and 348 risk standards
- Current phaseFounding: calls for experts and constitution of the Council
Nexus Standards · proposed
Roadmap to the first official release, 2030
The programme moves from the founding of its governance bodies to the first official release of the full catalogue in 2030. Each bar shows a target window; dates are indicative and every adoption remains a decision of the Global Standards Council.
| Phase | When | What happens | Ends when |
|---|---|---|---|
| P0 Founding | October 2026 to March 2027 (target) | Founding calls for experts open; the Council's seats are formed; the inaugural session and the first quarterly review are held; working groups are formed (registry/participation.yaml, startUp S0 to S3). | The Council is quorate and the working groups have members. |
| P1 Proposals and first operational versions | January 2027 to June 2029 (target) | Each standard moves from OPEN to a proposal with its first operational version, wave by wave, drafted in the working groups and the technical committees. | Every standard of a wave has a first operational version. |
| P2 Deliberation, last call and national discussion | July 2027 to December 2029 (target) | Open review with a recorded disposition for every comment; a last call of 90 days for every new standard (NS-13); delegation by the Council to the National Standards Councils for national discussion. | Every comment is disposed of and every delegated national discussion has returned a position or a deferral. |
| P3 Field simulations and exercises | September 2027 to June 2030 (target) | Working groups and host institutions run simulations and exercises with the first operational versions in their own context, jurisdiction and industry, and file the evidence. | Each standard has field evidence from more than one jurisdiction or industry, or a recorded reason why not. |
| P4 Adoption decisions of the Global Standards Council | March 2028 to September 2030 (target) | Decisions on each standard, recorded by reference with their evidence, at the ordinary sessions of the Council. | Every standard of the catalogue has a recorded decision. |
| P5 First official release | October 2030 to December 2030 (target) | The full catalogue is released with DOIs and opened for national adoption. | The first official release is published. |
Global Standards Council adoption decisions for every standard of the catalogue, after last call, national discussion and field evidence. Source: registry/roadmap.yaml.
Population, settlement and hazards worldwide
The map is framed on the world as context for the jurisdictions in which national adoption is decided. Shown at first: population density, 2020 (Gridded Population of the World v4.11, NASA SEDAC, CIESIN, Columbia University) and night-time lights, daily (VIIRS Black Marble, VNP46A2, NASA LAADS DAAC). The layer drawer adds flood water, 3-day composite (VIIRS Global Flood Product); active fires and thermal anomalies, last day (VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m, FIRMS); and true colour (VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance). NASA products are served through NASA GIBS under NASA's open data policy, with acknowledgement; population density is GPW v4.11 by CIESIN, Columbia University, under CC BY 4.0; coastlines, boundaries and place names come from NASA GIBS reference layers (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and Natural Earth (public domain). Each layer shows its own observation date; full credits are given under the map.
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Where people live, night-time lights and the floods and fires public institutions answer to, framed on World.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place.
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- 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 H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- 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 H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- 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 H3 cells where shown (modified). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. CC BY 4.0
- VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- 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 H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- 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 H3 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. NASA open data
- Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
- Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
- Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
- Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not authority warnings.
- 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).
- Optional layers (3 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.
Layers and dates
- Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
- Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
- Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
- Active fires and thermal anomalies, last day: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
- True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
Key terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| First operational version | The first complete, implementable text of a standard: every part drafted under NS-4 with registered requirements, its conformance test definitions, example records, and its crosswalks to external standards. It has a UNI and a version, stays PROPOSED, and is fit to be used in field simulations and exercises. It is not adopted and carries no claim of conformity, certification or readiness. |
| First official release | The release of the full catalogue in which every standard has been adopted by the Global Standards Council after its last call, its national discussion and its field evidence, is published with a DOI by the Secretariat as publisher of record, and is open for national adoption, adaptation or reference by each National Standards Council. |
| Field exercise | A simulation or exercise in which an implementing institution applies a first operational version in its own context, jurisdiction or industry and records the evidence (records, attestations and findings) as artifacts under NS-1 and NS-11. Exercise types follow the established practice of discussion-based (seminar, tabletop) and operations-based (drill, functional, full-scale) exercises, with evaluation against declared objectives. |
| National discussion | The consultation a National Standards Council runs in its jurisdiction on a standard the Council has delegated to it, ending in a national position (adopt as is, adopt with profile, adapt, reference only, defer or decline). |
Drafting waves of the Nexus Risk Standards
The 348 Nexus Risk Standards are drafted in 4 waves, beginning with the foundations of the risk core on which the other series depend.
| Wave | Scope | Standards | First operational versions | Last call from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wave 1: Foundations of the risk core | Vocabulary, method, data model, evidence, clauses and conformance: everything the other series cite. | 13 | 2027-Q4 | 2028-Q1 |
| Wave 2: Anchor streams, hazards and programme | The six anchor streams and the nexus, climate, disasters, continuity, hazard profiles, scenarios, warnings, indicators, disclosure, Universe, Reports, adoption and the National Portfolio. | 111 | 2028-Q3 | 2028-Q4 |
| Wave 3: Technology, finance, policy and development | Every exponential technology, finance and insurance, policy and governance, development and society, intelligence and the system profiles. | 223 | 2029-Q2 | 2029-Q3 |
| Wave 4: Engagement | Public campaigns and engagement. | 1 | 2029-Q2 | 2029-Q3 |
Proposed new work items
Proposal NXS-STD-PC-000011 extends the catalogue in three parts: revisions of the foundation standards, new standards in existing series of the Nexus Risk Standards, and standards for frontier areas where no established standard yet exists. All items are proposed; designations are provisional until the Global Standards Council accepts the proposal. Targets: wave 1, first operational versions by the fourth quarter of 2027; wave 2, first operational versions by the third quarter of 2028; wave 3, first operational versions by the second quarter of 2029; last call from the third quarter of 2029.
Revisions of the foundation standards
| Standards | Revision | Wave |
|---|---|---|
| NS-10 | Trigger object | Wave 1 |
| NS-11 | Evidence registration through transparency services (IETF SCITT) and continuous verification | Wave 1 |
| NS-14 | Quality fields for crosswalks | Wave 1 |
| NS-14, NS-9, NS-16 | Layered profiles, from global to municipal and orbital | Wave 1 |
| NS-1, NS-3, NS-9, NS-16 | Place codes for areas below and beyond national jurisdiction | Wave 1 |
| NS-8 | Publication with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) | Wave 1 |
| NS-13, NS-4 | Versioning, maturity levels and retraction | Wave 1 |
| NS-11, NS-12 | Cryptographic agility | Wave 1 |
| NS-12 | Attestations of computational runs | Wave 1 |
| NS-10, NS-11 | Data sovereignty and consent fields | Wave 1 |
| NS-0, NS-13 | Governance dossier against the WTO principles for the development of international standards | Phases P0 to P2 |
| NS-15 | Vocabulary of systemic relations | Wave 2 |
| NS-3, NS-3b, NS-5 | Measurement, time scales and data freshness | Wave 1 and 2 |
New standards in existing series
| Provisional designation | Title | Wave |
|---|---|---|
| NRS-A13 | Cryptographic agility and post-quantum migration | Wave 1 |
| NRS-A14 | Attested computation and transparency | Wave 1 |
| NRS-A15 | Polyglot encodings and portable evaluators | Wave 1 |
| NRS-A10 | Zero-trust profile | Wave 2 |
| NRS-A11 | Zero-knowledge and selective-disclosure attestations | Wave 2 |
| NRS-A12 | Privacy-preserving risk analytics | Wave 2 |
| NRS-I8 | Real-time risk event and alert interchange | Wave 2 |
| NRS-C25 | Impact forecast and warning verification | Wave 2 |
| NRS-C26 | Cascade and dependency graphs | Wave 2 |
| NRS-T18 | Digital risk twins | Wave 3 |
| NRS-T19 | Assurance of AI warning models | Wave 3 |
| NRS-X13 | Critical entity and operational technology resilience evidence | Wave 3 |
| NRS-F10 | Physical-to-financial exposure records | Wave 3 |
Frontier standards
Frontier standards are developed in liaison with the specialist bodies of each field and under the programme's information-hazard policy.
| Provisional designation | Title | Wave |
|---|---|---|
| NRS-T20 | Neurotechnology risk and assurance | Wave 3 |
| NRS-T21 | Climate intervention: governance, monitoring, reporting and verification | Wave 3 |
| NRS-X14 | Orbital environment, space resources and planetary defence | Wave 3 |
| NRS-X15 | Ocean, seabed and polar commons | Wave 3 |
| NRS-P12 | Converging and catastrophic risks and long-horizon accountability | Wave 3 |
Testing the standards in operational settings
Before adoption, each first operational version is tested in practice. Working groups and host institutions, including National Working Groups, conduct discussion-based exercises (seminars and tabletop exercises) and operations-based exercises (drills, functional and full-scale exercises) in their own jurisdictions and industries, in coordination with the competent national authorities where appropriate. Findings are recorded as evidence and inform the deliberations of the Global Standards Council and of each National Standards Council.
| Step | What it involves | Where on this site |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Scoping | The host institution and the working group select the standard, the jurisdiction or industry, the exercise type and the objectives to be evaluated. | Develop a standard |
| 2. System model | The systems, hazards, couplings, controls, data sources and indicators of the context are assembled into a system model. | The system model and scenario simulator on each area page |
| 3. Conduct | Scenario injects follow the hazard cascades recorded in the Nexus Hazard Standard; participants produce the records, identifiers and attestations that the standard requires. | Hazard cascades and systemic couplings on each area page |
| 4. Evaluation | An after-action report, identified by a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), evaluates performance against the declared objectives and identifies gaps in the requirements. | The UNI and the resolver |
| 5. Deliberation | The report is filed on the public change record of the standard as evidence for review and last call under NS-13. | NS-13: the development process |
Exercise tracks
A working group plans each exercise with one or more host institutions; the host runs it in its own context and remains responsible for it. Exercises never involve live operations without the host's own authority and safeguards, and never handle personal or sensitive data without a lawful basis and the information-hazard policy.
| Track | Scope | Host institutions |
|---|---|---|
| WG-HAZ | Hazard families and multi-hazard warning chains | Open for registration |
| WG-IND | Indicators and indices in national and sector statistics | Open for registration |
| WG-MTH | Risk methods and models against reference results | Open for registration |
| WG-ONT | Vocabulary and ontology in data exchange between institutions | Open for registration |
| WG-DEV | Standards as code: identifiers, records and conformance tests in software | Open for registration |
| WG-CNF | Conformance assessment and attestations | Open for registration |
| WG-STR | Anchor streams (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity, infrastructure) and their nexus | Open for registration |
| WG-POL | Policy, rights and national adoption | Open for registration |
| WG-FIN | Finance and insurance | Open for registration |
| WG-AI | AI, agents and machine learning in risk work | Open for registration |
| WG-UNV | Universe platforms and domain packs | Open for registration |
| WG-ACD | Learning, training and exercise design | Open for registration |
| WG-ACC | Accessibility, plain language and translation | Open for registration |
Invitation to participate
Comment on any draft, propose changes, join a working group, host a field exercise, or form or join a National Standards Council. Participation is free and open through the public repository and every gateway; no fee and no membership are needed to comment.
- governments and public authorities
- international and regional organisations
- academia and research
- industry and infrastructure operators
- finance and insurance
- civil society
- communities and Indigenous peoples
- implementers and developers
- standards bodies
Open calls for participation
Applications are acknowledged within two working days, reviewed within ten and decided within forty-five.
| Call | Window | Seeks |
|---|---|---|
| Founding call for experts to the working groups | 2026-10-20 to 2026-12-15 | expert, editor, chair |
| Open nomination for the three independent expert seats of the Global Standards Council | 2026-10-20 to 2026-12-01 | council-member |
| Nominations of interim regional members (applies only if the transitional provision is decided) | 2026-11-02 to 2026-12-15 | council-member |
| Review of the wave-1 risk core outlines (C1, C2, C3, C4, C8, C10, C11) | 2026-11-02 to 2027-01-31 | contributor |
| Experts for the core standards of risk science: uncertainty and evidence grading, scales, structured expert judgement, tolerability, extremes and compound events, catastrophic and existential risk, ethics and equity, units and measurement (NRS-C17 to NRS-C24) | 2026-10-20 to 2027-01-31 | expert, editor, chair |
| Independent reviewers for the families of the hazard atlas, three from at least two regions for each family (NHS2-R19), priority families first | 2026-10-20 to 2027-03-31 | expert |
| Members of the interim Frontier Safety Review Panel and red-team reviewers (biosafety and biosecurity, AI safety and security, critical-infrastructure security); applications treated in confidence | 2026-10-20 to 2026-11-30 | expert |
| Experts in ontology, metrology, software verification and conformity assessment for the requirement register, the NHS-2 machine representation, the conformance test suites and the conformity assessment scheme | 2026-10-20 to 2027-01-31 | expert, editor |
| Technical review and comment on the preparatory working drafts of the programme, in forty-three technical review areas (notice NXS-STD-DC-000034) | 2026-10-20 to 2027-02-12 | contributor, expert |
Working groups
| Group | Scope | Deliverables |
|---|---|---|
| WG-HAZ Hazard families | Drafts the hazard family standards on the Nexus Hazard Standard NHS-1, family by family, with the hazard science community. | Draft text of the wave-2 hazard family standards; NHS-1 review findings for its owners |
| WG-IND Indicators and indices | Drafts the indicator and composite standards on NIS-1 and reviews NIS-1 with its owners. | Draft NRS-C13; NIS-1 review findings |
| WG-MTH Methods and models | Drafts the method fabric standards on the Risk Master, with validation, uncertainty and VVUQ. | Draft wave-1 method core; VVUQ benchmark proposals |
| WG-ONT Ontology and vocabulary | Maintains the Nexus risk ontology, the native vocabularies in SKOS, the alignment and the harmonisation groups. | Harmonisation recommendations to the Council; ontology releases |
| WG-DEV Standards as code and developer tooling | Schemas, APIs, the agent interface, adoption kits, SDKs and reference implementations. | Reference SDKs; conformance fixtures; adoption kit releases |
| WG-CNF Conformance and assurance | Conformance levels and evidence quality levels in practice, test suites, attestation and zero-trust verification. | Conformance test suites per level; attestation profile |
| WG-STR Anchor streams and the nexus | Water, energy, food, health, biodiversity and infrastructure, and their coupling. | Draft stream standards and their profiles |
| WG-POL Policy, rights and adoption | Policy and regulatory standards, rights and data responsibility, national adoption and country profiles. | Draft policy standards; national adoption guidance |
| WG-FIN Finance and insurance | Finance, insurance, disclosure and risk transfer standards. | Draft finance standards; readiness dossier template |
| WG-AI AI, agents and machine learning in risk work | AI, agent and ML lifecycle risk, AI-ready data and evaluation suites. | Evaluation suites; model and data card profiles |
| WG-UNV Universe platforms and domain packs | Profiles of the Nexus Universe platforms and applied domain packs, with their stewards. | Reviewed platform and pack profiles |
| WG-ACD Academy and learning | One learning module per standard, learning by doing and credentials issued by GCRI Canada. | Learning modules for the wave-1 core |
| WG-ACC Accessibility, plain language and translation | Plain-language summaries, translations and accessibility of every standard and page. | Plain-language summaries; translation memory; accessibility checks |
Forms of participation
| Role | Who | May |
|---|---|---|
| Observer | Anyone | attend open sessions; read dockets and drafts; comment in public comment windows |
| Contributor | Anyone who accepts the contribution terms | submit every contribution type; comment on drafts at any time; offer test vectors; code and translations |
| Working group expert | A contributor accepted into a working group through an open call | draft in a working group; take positions in the group; be nominated editor |
| Editor | An expert appointed by the technical committee for one standard or part | hold the pen on a draft; prepare NS-13 proposals; dispose of comments with reasons |
| Chair or convenor | Elected by a committee or working group from its members | convene; set the agenda; report to the committee or the Council |
| Council member | A holder of one of the thirteen voting seats | decide for the Council under registry/governance.yaml |
Expert communities
| Community | Who | Contributes |
|---|---|---|
| Science, technology, engineering and mathematics | Hazard, climate, hydrology, geoscience, epidemiology, ecology, statistics and data scientists; research institutions | Methods, models, validation, uncertainty, indicators, hazard definitions and test vectors |
| Developers and engineers | Software, data, ML, platform, OT and infrastructure engineers; open-source maintainers | Standards as code, schemas, APIs, SDKs, conformance suites, reference implementations and interoperability tests |
| Policy makers and regulators | Ministries, agencies, regulators, legislators, multilateral and regional bodies | Policy and regulatory requirements, national profiles, adoption, rights and public-interest review |
| Finance, insurance and investment | Banks, insurers, asset owners and managers, development finance, supervisors | Finance and insurance standards, disclosure, stress testing, risk transfer and readiness dossiers |
| Risk, resilience and humanitarian practitioners | Disaster risk, civil protection, utilities, infrastructure operators, humanitarian and development practitioners | Field requirements, warning and anticipatory action, continuity and recovery practice, worked examples |
| Communities, Indigenous peoples and local knowledge holders | Community organisations, Indigenous and local knowledge holders, civil society | Rights, consent, local knowledge, accessibility and public-interest review |
| Students, early-career professionals and educators | Academy learners, universities, trainers | Learning modules, worked examples, translations, plain-language summaries, reviews of drafts as part of learning by doing |
| Standards bodies and liaisons | National, regional and international standards organisations and their committees | Liaison, crosswalks at arm's length, alignment and national adoption |
Risk Academy courses and disciplines
3 courses and 3 disciplines of Risk Academy (risksacademy.com) that teach the knowledge and methods of the work set out in the roadmap. Each course lists its level, stream and learning hours.
Courses
Disciplines
The correspondence between courses, disciplines and the Nexus Standards is maintained with Risk Academy and is subject to its academic review.
Taking part across the network
GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF), The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) and Risk Academy work on the work set out in the roadmap in distinct roles (research and evidence; governance, policy and convening; capital, finance and markets; education and training). Each entry states why it corresponds and the step it offers; each institution sets its own terms of participation.
Research and evidence
GCRI Canada
Research programmes that produce the observations, models and assessments these records describe.
Nexus LabsDesigns and records pilots and testbeds, the setting in which proposed standards are exercised before adoption.Apply to this programme Nexus ReportsPublishes versioned and reviewed reports, including the annual synthesis against which progress on the roadmap can be read.Apply to this programme therisk.globalAll programmes of GCRI CanadaGovernance, policy and convening
The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
Tracks that convene public authorities, researchers and institutions on the governance of shared risks.
Governance NexusExamines council formation and institutional capability, the questions that shape the governance milestones of the roadmap.Join this track Research NexusHosts the research dialogue through which methods and evidence for each edition are reviewed across institutions.Join this track globalriskforum.comAll tracks of The Global Risks ForumCapital, finance and markets
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
Industry programmes in which financial institutions build a shared understanding of systemic risk.
Development Finance NexusWorks on country programme readiness, where adoption milestones meet the preparation of public investment.Join this programme globalriskalliance.comAll programmes of The Global Risks AllianceEducation and training
Risk Academy
Courses and disciplines that teach the knowledge and methods practitioners need to apply these standards.
Cross-Stream PracticumRAN-308 · Advanced · 26 learning hoursAn end-to-end risk assessment and action plan for a place and sector you chooseTake this course Policy and GovernanceRAN-307 · Intermediate · 21.5 learning hoursHow institutions, laws and people decide about risk, and how to tell whether policy worksTake this course Science Policy 101RAF-103 · Introductory · 19.5 learning hoursBringing evidence on risk to decision makers honestly, clearly and usefullyTake this course All courses and disciplinesListed in the education and training section of this pageQuestions and answers.
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