GRA · Asset Management Nexus
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Asset Management Nexus
Public and private asset management, long-term risk, stewardship and systemic investment exposures. Asset Management Nexus is an established platform of The Global Risks Alliance.
- STEM methods
- 4
- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
- 9
- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
- 10
- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
- 2
- Reports series it contributes to
The workspace for Asset Management Nexus.
Portfolio risk and stewardship
Global equity fund · As of week 17 · Example interface, not a record
- Active risk4.3pct a year
- Top 10 weight33pct of NAVWatch
- Implied temperature2.1°CWatch
- Engagements open46Active
Sector weights vs benchmark
Stewardship priorities
| Company 1 | Transition plan | Vote against chair | Escalated |
| Company 2 | Water risk | Letter | Open |
| Company 3 | Board independence | Meeting | Progress |
Asset Management Nexus · Portfolio risk and stewardship. Portfolio risk and stewardship: example names and illustrative values, not a record.
The areas of capital markets and investment this platform takes on.
Asset Management Nexus studies how the investment industry holds, prices and stewards the economy’s risks: concentration across portfolios, liquidity in open-ended funds, long-horizon climate and nature exposure, the quality of disclosure and the use of ownership rights. It sets out the Global Risks Alliance’s shared view of the field for portfolio researchers, investment managers, asset owners and stewardship teams. Its pages describe mechanisms, data, methods and decisions, label every source, and give no investment advice.
Portfolio concentration
Common exposures, index concentration, factor crowding and the overlap that can turn many diversified portfolios into one position.
Fund liquidity and redemption
Liquidity mismatch in open-ended funds, leverage, margin calls and the tools that allocate the cost of redemptions.
Long-horizon risk
Climate, demographic and technology shifts that reprice sectors over the life of pension and insurance liabilities.
Stewardship and governance
Voting, engagement, escalation and the accountability of managers to asset owners and beneficiaries.
Data and disclosure
Sustainability reporting standards, vendor data, rating divergence and the lineage from issuer report to fund disclosure.
Infrastructure and real assets
Physical hazard, operational dependency and valuation practice in buildings, infrastructure and land.
Climate transition
Transition risk, transition plans and transition finance, with the limits on what climate-finance figures can claim.
Nature-related risk
Portfolio dependencies and impacts on nature, read through sector mapping and the TNFD LEAP approach.
Transition and physical risk on a portfolio.
Three scenario families after the NGFS framework move a sector portfolio through carbon costs and warming damages; the transmission view follows the losses to lenders, investors, public finances and households. Scenario: named assumptions about the future, not a forecast.
Controls
- Carbon price at the horizon, orderly path
- 200 per tCO2
- Delay before a disorderly transition
- 50% of horizon
- Cost passed to customers
- 50%
- Warming today above pre-industrial
- 1.30°C
- Warming per decade, current policies
- 0.25°C
- Damage coefficient
- 0.24% per °C²
- Years ahead
- 25 years
Readouts
- Worst scenario at the horizon
- −33.6% of value
Numbers, methods and sources
| Year | Orderly transition (% value) | Delayed, disorderly transition (% value) | Current policies (% value) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | −0.38 | −0.38 | −0.38 |
| 3 | −2.87 | −0.53 | −0.67 |
| 6 | −5.36 | −0.68 | −0.97 |
| 9 | −7.84 | −0.84 | −1.27 |
| 12 | −10.33 | −0.99 | −1.57 |
| 15 | −12.82 | −7.12 | −1.87 |
| 18 | −15.31 | −15.05 | −2.17 |
| 21 | −17.80 | −23.00 | −2.48 |
| 24 | −20.29 | −30.94 | −2.79 |
Methods
- Climate scenario families NGFS (2023), Climate Scenarios for central banks and supervisors, Phase IV
- Climate stress test of the financial system Battiston and others (2017), Nature Climate Change 7
- Damage function Nordhaus (2017), Revisiting the social cost of carbon, PNAS 114
- Transmission channels BCBS (2021), Climate-related risk drivers and their transmission channels
- Uncertainty fan (parameter Monte Carlo) Spiegelhalter, Pearson and Short (2011), Visualising uncertainty about the future, Science 333
- One-at-a-time sensitivity (tornado) Saltelli and others (2008), Global Sensitivity Analysis: The Primer, Wiley
Data
The model runs on the teaching values set by the controls. To calibrate it for a place, read it against these admitted layers and series, which this page’s map can draw:
- Urban extents Natural Earth
- Seaports Natural Earth
- Past year, daily temperature (ERA5 via Open-Meteo) Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), Copernicus ERA5 (C3S/ECMWF) · register open-meteo.public-pages
- Surface air temperature, daytime (AIRS) NASA AIRS · register nasa.gibs.context-live-layers
Across the six pillars, led by Nexus Consortium
- Experiments Labs
- Built in Asset Management Nexus in Foundry
- Tested at Asset Management Nexus in Universe
- Codified in Finance, Insurance and the Economy in Standards
- Published in Asset Management Nexus in Reports
- Taught in Faculty of Finance and Economics in Academy
The questions this field works on.
Portfolio concentration
Common exposures and diversification.
TopicLong-horizon risk
Climate, demographic and technology shifts.
TopicStewardship and governance
Ownership influence and accountability.
TopicData and disclosure
Comparability and source limits.
TopicLiquidity and redemption
Liquidity mismatches and financial stability.
TopicInfrastructure and real assets
Physical and operational exposure.
TopicTransition risk
Business models and technology transitions.
TopicFiduciary boundaries
Responsible research versus advice.
TopicTransition finance
Transitions, stewardship and limits of climate-finance claims.
Trace a shock in Asset Management Nexus to the balance sheet.
Assembled from the Nexus Standards area profile Asset owners and asset management: the shocks it names, the systems and sectors that carry the loss, the controls that dampen it and the data that observe it. Pick an initiating shock and step through the cascade to see which exposures it reaches and where losses could concentrate. The Map view places the run on an example geography with open data. Every weight is a stated assumption. An exercise, not a forecast, a valuation, a rating or investment advice. To model a place of your own choosing, open the full System Builder.
Hazards
- Windstorm
- Geomagnetic storm
- Dam failure
- Widespread power outage (set off downstream)
- Large forest disturbance (set off downstream)
- Wildfire (set off downstream)
- Geomagnetically induced current (set off downstream)
- Ionospheric disturbance (set off downstream)
- Satellite space-environment anomaly (set off downstream)
- River flood (set off downstream)
- Flash flood (set off downstream)
- Mass displacement (set off downstream)
- Shoreline ice shove (set off downstream)
- Thermospheric drag surge (set off downstream)
- Radiation-belt electron enhancement (set off downstream)
- Seiche (set off downstream)
- Satellite-navigation disruption (set off downstream)
- Uncontrolled re-entry (set off downstream)
Systems and couplings
- Asset owners and asset management
- Banking Coupling
- Energy utilities and grids Coupling
- Central banks and financial supervisors Coupling
- Mining and extractives Coupling
Controls
NS-0Constitution and principlesNS-3Risk record UNIs (grammar, legacy crosswalk, allocation authority)NS-9Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme instances)NS-11Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations, zero-trust conformance observation)NS-14Conformance and crosswalk to external standardsNRS-U1Universe platform profile: Asset Management NexusNRS-H113Hazard family: Financial-system fragility (NHS-1 soc.financial-system)NRS-N6Infrastructure risk and resilienceNRS-C3Hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity dataNRS-M3Method fabric: Exposure and asset intelligenceNRS-N5Biodiversity and nature risk and resilience
Observation
- OECD Data Explorer (incl. Creditor Reporting System, insurance and pension statistics) (listed for reference)
- NGFS Scenario Explorer (listed for reference)
- GLEIF Golden Copy (LEI Level 1 and Level 2 data) (listed for reference)
- World Development Indicators (listed for reference)
- Number of companies publishing sustainability reports
- Market capitalisation of listed domestic companies (% of GDP)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
Example geography
- Western Europe: 152 hexagonal cells
- Rain rate, last half hour (IMERG), NASA GIBS
- Night lights tonight, outages (VIIRS Day/Night Band), NASA GIBS
- Vegetation disturbance alerts, 30 m (OPERA DIST-ALERT), NASA GIBS
- Carbon monoxide, smoke transport (AIRS), NASA GIBS
What Asset Management Nexus does.
Asset management risk is the set of risks investment managers and asset owners carry and pass on: concentration across portfolios, liquidity mismatch in open-ended funds, long-horizon climate and nature exposure and the quality of the data behind decisions. Asset Management Nexus, the Global Risks Alliance’s platform for the sector, explains these risks and the duties around them; nothing on it is investment advice.
Its community
Portfolio researchers; investment managers; asset owners; stewardship teams.
Its methods
Portfolio concentration; disclosure methods; long-horizon scenarios.
Its outputs
Portfolio risk briefs; stewardship evidence; professional research.
Where exposure in Asset Management Nexus travels.
The sectors that carry exposure in Asset Management Nexus and how a loss in one passes to the others, across portfolios and public finances.
Signature
Biodiversity and its partners
Biodiversity gives pollination and soils to food (0.6), watershed regulation to water (0.5) and zoonotic spillover and medicines to health (0.4).
W · E · I · F · H · B
- Sectors
- 4 of 6
- Relations
- 6 of 15
- Coupling
- 0.46 share of total
Strongest relations in play
- Food → Biodiversity · land conversion0.6
- Water → Food · irrigation0.8
- Water → Biodiversity · environmental flows0.6
- Food → Health · nutrition0.7
Diversified portfolios can share the same hidden exposures.
Asset managers and asset owners, such as pension funds, insurers, endowments and sovereign funds, hold a large share of the world’s savings on behalf of beneficiaries whose horizons run for decades. Modern portfolio theory teaches that diversification reduces risk, and for many risks it does. But some risks are systemic: they affect most assets at once and cannot be diversified away. Financial economists call this market or systematic risk.
Several forces make systemic exposure more pressing. Index investing and common benchmarks lead many portfolios to hold similar assets. Physical climate risks threaten real assets and the companies that depend on them across regions. Transitions in energy, technology and demographics change which business models remain viable. And liquidity can disappear across markets at the same moment, when many investors try to sell together.
When such exposures materialise, effects cascade. Falling asset values affect pension funding and household wealth; forced selling by some investors depresses prices for others; and stress in funds can spill into banks and markets. Asset management is therefore part of the financial system’s stability, not only a set of individual investment choices.
What Asset Management Nexus means for exposure, loss and capital.
The exposure, loss, scenario and capital views a risk officer, supervisor or ministry of finance would ask for, with the frameworks they report against. Structures follow supervisory and actuarial practice. Values are illustrative: never prices, ratings or advice.
Scenario pathways
How Asset Management Nexus could be stressed under the scenario families central banks and supervisors use.
| Scenario family | Transition risk | Physical risk | What a stress test asks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orderly | Early, gradual policy | Lower | Can the book absorb a steady repricing? |
| Disorderly | Late, abrupt policy | Lower to medium | What breaks under a sudden repricing and credit migration? |
| Hot house world | Limited policy | High and rising | Where do physical losses concentrate in collateral and insurance? |
Disclosure crosswalk
Where evidence on Asset Management Nexus fits the disclosure and prudential frameworks institutions report against.
| Pillar | TCFD | ISSB IFRS S2 | Prudential (BCBS, IAIS) | Evidence this page can hold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governance | Board oversight of climate-related risks | Governance requirements | Governance and risk appetite principles | Who owns the risk and how it is escalated |
| Strategy | Risks, opportunities and resilience | Scenario analysis and resilience | Strategy and business model principles | Scenario design and transmission paths |
| Risk management | Identify, assess, manage | Risk management processes | Internal control and ICAAP or ORSA | Exposure maps and loss views |
| Metrics and targets | Metrics used and targets set | Cross-industry and industry metrics | Data, metrics and reporting principles | Indicator definitions and units |
Precompetitive research on shared exposures and long-horizon risk.
Asset Management Nexus is designed to bring the industry together on shared, precompetitive questions: how common exposures are measured, how long-horizon risks are understood and how stewardship evidence is assessed.
Common exposures
Methods for seeing concentration across portfolios and benchmarks. See portfolio concentration.
Long-horizon scenarios
Scenario methods for climate, demographic and technology shifts. See long-horizon risk.
Disclosure methods
How data and disclosures can be compared, and where they fall short. See data and disclosure.
Signature outputs are designed to include portfolio risk briefs, stewardship evidence and professional research. They describe methods and evidence, never recommendations about securities, strategies or managers.
Assets on the grid, and the portfolio they make.
Where a portfolio’s assets sit, and how much of its value is most exposed. Hypothetical assets, not an assessment.
How the platform connects to science and to the other institutions.
The platform draws on four STEM methods held in the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) STEM Commons: financial economics and macro-finance, financial and risk engineering, scenario design and stress testing and econometrics. Its STEM applications show how each is used.
Science on the physical and ecological risks that reach portfolios comes from The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), notably Climate and Hazards and the Biodiversity Nexus. Governance dialogue on climate and nature is convened by Climate and Nature Governance at the Global Risks Forum (GRF). Within GRA, it works alongside Financial Stability, Climate and Nature Financial Risk and the Institutional Funds Nexus. See all counterparts.
Platform research is designed to feed the Reports Finance and Insurance Readiness series and Scenario and Stress-Test series, and a Universe exercise on portfolio stress under a transition scenario, described on the platform’s Universe page.
Built on named science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Every claim on Asset Management Nexus rests on methods with a canonical page in the STEM Commons, so readers can see what a finding depends on and where its limits lie.
How work moves in this field.
A question becomes evidence, a governed build, an organised community, a controlled test, a reviewed publication and, finally, a decision taken by the competent authority under its own rules.
- Question Universe National, regional or institutional priority. Question in Asset Management Nexus
- Evidence Foundry STEM foundation of the platform. Evidence in Asset Management Nexus
- Build Foundry Foundry. Build in Asset Management Nexus
- Organise Universe Nexus ecosystem. Organise in Asset Management Nexus
- Test Universe Universe (independent site). Test in Asset Management Nexus
- Publish Reports Reports. Publish in Asset Management Nexus
- Decide Competent authority Competent authorities and institutions, through NXS-RLS (participants, agreements and handoffs). Decide in Asset Management Nexus
- Renew Universe Corrections and the next annual agenda. Renew in Asset Management Nexus
Each step of the cycle in the pillar it runs in; the decision stays with the competent authority, outside the programme.
- Labs
- Foundry
- Universe
- Nexus Standards
- Reports
- Risk Academy
- Competent authority (outside the programme)
How this works across the six pillars.
Asset Management Nexus works through six pillars of one annual programme, led by the Nexus Consortium, with GCRI, GRF and GRA each contributing in its role: explore, experiment and prototype in Labs, build, simulate and prepare in Foundry, convene and test in Universe, codify, correct and apply in Nexus Standards, publish in every format in Reports, teach in the open in Risk Academy.
handoff in playrecorded handoffno direct handoff
Programme yearAll phases
Route
The whole programme
Every pillar hands its work to another; together they close the year’s feedback loops.
L · F · U · S · R · A
- Pillars
- 6 of 6
- Handoffs
- 18 of 18
- Loops
- 17 closed
Handoffs in play
- F01Universe → Foundry · Admitted mission becomes a cycle project with a decision caseReadiness preparation
- F02Foundry → Universe · Core Build Report and go or no-go evidenceControlled build
- F03Foundry → Reports · Sealed observations and indicator series behind a profileCloseout
- F04Universe → Reports · After-action and scenario findings for chapters 10 and 13After-action review
and 14 more
- LabsWhere questions become experiments and prototypes: new methods, data and tools are tried in the open, with their limits on record, before the Foundry builds them, under the Nexus Consortium.Labs
- FoundryWhere exposure and scenario evidence is built so supervisors, insurers and investors can read it.Asset Management Nexus in FoundryFoundry
- UniverseWhere scenarios are tested in controlled exercises, and finance-readiness dialogues read what they mean for capital and cover.Asset Management Nexus in Universeuniverse.nexus
- Nexus StandardsWhere disclosure and data rules are codified so risk evidence is comparable for finance and insurance.Finance, Insurance and the Economy in Standardsnexustandards.com
- ReportsWhere sector analysis and the finance and insurance readiness series are published, with exposure and limits stated.Asset Management Nexus in ReportsReports
- Risk AcademyWhere finance, insurance and public-finance professionals learn to read risk evidence, on Risk Academy.Faculty of Finance and Economics in Academyrisksacademy.com
What the work is read against.
The platform does not set standards. It reads its evidence against the frameworks that competent bodies have adopted, so a finding can be placed where a decision-maker already works.
| Framework or standard | Body | What it sets |
|---|---|---|
| IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 | International Sustainability Standards Board, IFRS Foundation | General sustainability-related and climate-related financial disclosure, including scenario analysis and financed emissions for asset managers |
| TNFD recommendations and the LEAP approach | Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures | Disclosure of nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities, with additional guidance for financial institutions |
| TCFD recommendations | Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, Financial Stability Board | The governance, strategy, risk management and metrics structure of climate disclosure, now carried into IFRS S2 |
| UCITS Directive and AIFMD | European Union, with ESMA guidelines | Authorisation, diversification, liquidity management tools, leverage limits and supervisory reporting for EU funds and their managers |
| Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation | European Union | Entity and product disclosure of sustainability risks, principal adverse impacts and sustainable investment claims |
| IOSCO Objectives and Principles and the recommendations on liquidity risk management | International Organization of Securities Commissions | Principles for regulating collective investment schemes and managing liquidity in open-ended funds |
| UK Stewardship Code and other stewardship codes | Financial Reporting Council; Japan Financial Services Agency; ICGN Global Stewardship Principles | Expectations for how investors exercise ownership rights and report what they did and with what outcome |
| Principles for Responsible Investment and the PRI reporting framework | PRI | Six principles for signatories and the annual framework through which they report responsible investment and stewardship practice |
| GFANZ transition plan guidance | Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero | Components of net-zero transition plans for financial institutions and expectations of real-economy transition plans |
| CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct, and GIPS | CFA Institute | Professional conduct, research objectivity, suitability and fair dealing, and standards for presenting investment performance |
The same field, seen three ways.
GCRI studies a field as science, GRF governs it and GRA builds shared financial understanding of it. Asset Management Nexus links to its counterparts so that work on one side is visible on the others.
- Water NexusInstitutionGCRIShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Food NexusInstitutionGCRIShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Energy NexusInstitutionGCRIShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Biodiversity NexusInstitutionGCRIShared fieldBiodiversity and nature, Climate and hazards
- Climate and HazardsInstitutionGCRIShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Disaster Resilience and RecoveryInstitutionGCRIShared fieldClimate and hazards
- Oceans and CoastsInstitutionGCRIShared fieldClimate and hazards, Biodiversity and nature
- Space and Earth ObservationInstitutionGCRIShared fieldClimate and hazards
Pages in Asset Management Nexus.
Industry scope and publisher
PageFinancial discipline overview
PageProfessional research
PageTechnology and emerging practices
PageResilience and finance readiness
PageResearch and industry programmes
PageAnalytical and data resources
PageProfessional community
PageProfessional learning
PageProfessional meetings
PageReports and sector briefs
PageMembership and research participation
PageContact the industry platform
PageAntitrust, independence and financial perimeter
PageSTEM foundation of Asset Management Nexus
PageChapters
PageHow work moves in this field
PageBuild in Foundry
PageTest in Universe
PagePublish in Reports
PageThe same field across the Consortium
PageTopics
Where this page leads across the Consortium.
Questions and answers.
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Why can’t diversification remove systemic risk?
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How Asset Management Nexus works.
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How Asset Management Nexus works
Platforms · Programme year · Standards · Reports
A platform joins a field to named methods, labelled evidence and the outputs it publishes, without becoming the authority it serves.
01 Scope
- 01Field and familiesStart · The platform leadThe home states the field, its families and who it serves.
- 02Topic dossiersRecord · Platform authorsTopics explain the subject with labelled evidence.
02 Evidence
- 03Evidence labelsRecord · GCRIEach value is labelled: observed, published statistics, estimated, modelled, scenario or unknown.
- 04MethodsStep · Method ownersMethods come from the STEM Commons, each with one canonical page.
03 Work
- 05Scenarios on the systemsModel · Foundry pillarScenarios run on the Nexus systems, labelled as scenario.
- 06Standards that applyRecord · Nexus StandardsThe platform names the standards that apply. A validator report is evidence for review.
04 Publish
- 07EditionsRecord · ReportsFindings are published through Reports with their limits.
- 08Authority decidesOutcome · The competent authorityDecisions and execution stay with the government, operator or licensed institution.
Asset Management Nexus home · Platforms · Shared methodsAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.
Take part in Asset Management Nexus.
Start from who you are. Answer an open call. Or form and lead a competence cell on the Asset Management Nexus platform.
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Sectors and professions
Operators, regulators, banks, insurers and professional bodies whose work touches Asset Management Nexus. Participate
Learning
Courses and practice, with a record of every course completed. Free to study. Open learning
Standards
Draft, review and adopt the methods and data standards with the working groups. Working groups
Communities and research
Universities, civil society and individual experts: projects, data and review. Write to the team
| Open call | Seeks | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Founding call for experts to the working groups CALL-FOUNDING-EXPERTS | expert, editor, chair | 2026-12-15 |
| Open nomination for the three independent expert seats of the Global Standards Council CALL-GSC-IND | council-member | 2026-12-01 |
| Nominations of interim regional members (applies only if the transitional provision is decided) CALL-GSC-REG | council-member | 2026-12-15 |
| Review of the wave-1 risk core outlines (C1, C2, C3, C4, C8, C10, C11) CALL-REVIEW-WAVE1 | contributor | 2027-01-31 |
| 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) CALL-CORE-SCIENCE | expert, editor, chair | 2027-01-31 |
| Independent reviewers for the families of the hazard atlas, three from at least two regions for each family (NHS2-R19), priority families first CALL-ATLAS-REVIEW | expert | 2027-03-31 |
| 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 CALL-FRONTIER-SAFETY-REVIEW | expert | 2026-11-30 |
| 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 CALL-CONFORMANCE-ONTOLOGY | expert, editor | 2027-01-31 |
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- 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
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