Systemic risk arises when shocks propagate through tightly coupled systems (finance, food, energy, health, information) and produce failures far larger than the initial event, as the 2008 crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic showed. This section of the Systemic and long-term risk subsite defines how interdependencies, propagation channels and tipping behaviour are recorded across all other areas, so that systemic assessments can be composed from sector records rather than built as one-off narratives. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Context entry PROPOSED for the Nexus Standards registry.
Nexus Standards (2026). Global and systemic risk: area brief, Systemic Risks (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/systemic-risk/global-and-systemic-risk/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The risk disciplines section of Systemic Risks. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
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Hazards and threats 5
Sectors 4
The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9
Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-14
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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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UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information ProfilesUNDRR and International Science Councilregister · undrr-isc-hazard-information-profilesPROV-O: The PROV OntologyW3Cregister · w3c-prov-oData Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) Version 3W3Cregister · w3c-dcat-3Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX)SDMX sponsors (BIS, ECB, Eurostat, IMF, OECD, UN, World Bank)register · sdmxEach 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).
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Sources 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.
GDACS global disaster alerts (events API, RSS, CAP)pending admission
European Commission JRC and UN OCHA · near real time
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IMF data services (WEO, IFS, FSI via SDMX)pending admission
International Monetary Fund · monthly to semi-annual
IMF terms of use (attribution); Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
build-time snapshotregister row exists
INFORM Risk Indexpending admission
European Commission JRC · annual with mid-year update
CC BY 4.0 under the Commission reuse policy
GRIx governed readregister row exists
World Bank Open Data and World Development Indicators APIpending admission
World Bank · quarterly
CC BY 4.0 for most datasets; Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Mix standards and clauses into a profile draft with citations; YAML or JSON; nothing is submitted.
Pending admissionVersion and feed state per standard; every row reads source feed pending admission until a register row admits a feed.
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.
GCRI Canada may admit systemic assessments composed from versioned sector records with stated assumptions as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
GRF may use shared systemic records as a basis for multi-stakeholder dialogue; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
GRA may read systemic scenario records when it considers portfolio-level and correlated 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.
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.
Composition rules and records for systemic risk across all domains.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
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 Global and systemic risk, 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.