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Institutional Funds Nexus
Pension funds, endowments, sovereign-adjacent institutional investors and long-horizon resilience. Institutional Funds Nexus is an established platform of The Global Risks Alliance.
- STEM methods
- 4
- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
- 8
- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
- 5
- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
- 2
- Reports series it contributes to
Institutional Funds Nexus in seven parts.
- 01The problemLong promises, uncertain worlds
- 02FrameworksWhat the work is read against
- 03OverviewWhat Institutional Funds Nexus does
- 04What the platform doesShared understanding, never advice
- 05Foundation and counterpartsGrounded in method, linked to science and governance
- 06CoverageThe areas of capital markets and investment this platform takes on
- 07GroundingBuilt on named science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Long promises, uncertain worlds.
A pension fund promises income to members who may still be drawing it half a century from now. An endowment is expected to support its institution in perpetuity. To meet such obligations, institutional funds hold diversified portfolios of listed and private assets and rely on assumptions about investment returns, inflation, interest rates, longevity and contributions that must hold over very long horizons.
Those assumptions are exposed to risks that unfold slowly and then suddenly. Climate change affects the value of real assets and the companies funds own; demographic change alters the balance between contributors and beneficiaries; technology reshapes industries and labour markets; and pandemics change mortality in ways that are hard to model. Because many large funds own similar assets and use similar models, a shock that strains one tends to strain many at once.
Stress also transmits through liquidity. Funds that hedge liabilities with derivatives may face collateral calls when interest rates move sharply, and sales by many funds at once can deepen the very market move that caused them. Private assets, valued infrequently, can make portfolios look steadier than they are. The consequences reach beyond finance, to members’ retirement incomes, sponsors’ budgets and public finances.
Asset-liability console.
The screen a team would use to follow this field: its measures, states and decisions. Names are examples and values are illustrative.
Asset-liability console
Pension fund P · Valuation date Q3
- Funding ratio, % of liabilities1074Normal
- Surplus at risk, 1-in-2012pct of liabilitiesWatch
- Interest rate hedge68pct of liabilities
- Collateral cover2.0×Normal
Funding ratio projection
Collateral waterfall
| 1 | Cash and gilts | 358 | 0 |
| 2 | Index-linked | 311 | 1 |
| 3 | Credit | 1113 | 5 |
| 4 | Illiquid | 320 | over 30 |
The questions this field works on.
Pension system resilience
Funding and longevity exposures.
TopicLong-term risk
Climate, demographic and technology.
TopicAsset-liability management
Investment and liability dependencies.
TopicLiquidity and private assets
Market stress and private holdings.
TopicFiduciary governance
Mandates, controls and accountability.
TopicInstitutional concentration
Cross-portfolio exposures.
TopicStewardship and sustainability
Responsible engagement and measurement.
TopicIntergenerational equity
Long-term savings and social conditions.
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 Institutional Funds Nexus in Foundry
- Tested at Institutional Funds Nexus in Universe
- Codified in Finance, Insurance and the Economy in Standards
- Published in Institutional Funds Nexus in Reports
- Taught in Faculty of Finance and Economics in Academy
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OECD Core Principles of Private Pension Regulation | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | Principles for the regulation of private pension plans: governance, funding, investment, supervision, disclosure and protection of members |
| IOPS Principles of Private Pension Supervision | International Organisation of Pension Supervisors | Principles for risk-based supervision of pension funds: objectives, independence, powers, proportionality and transparency of supervisors |
| IORP II Directive | European Union, with EIOPA supervisory guidance | Governance, risk management, own-risk assessment, prudent person investment and member information for occupational pension funds |
| Santiago Principles | International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds | Generally accepted principles and practices for the legal basis, objectives, governance, investment and accountability of sovereign wealth funds |
| Pensions Regulator codes of practice | The Pensions Regulator, United Kingdom | The general code on scheme governance and internal controls, and the defined benefit funding code on funding and investment strategy |
| ERISA fiduciary standards | US Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration | Duties of loyalty and prudence, diversification and the exclusive purpose rule for private employee benefit plans |
| UK Stewardship Code and comparable national codes | Financial Reporting Council and national code bodies | Expectations for how asset owners and managers use ownership rights and report on stewardship activities and outcomes |
| IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, building on the TCFD recommendations | International Sustainability Standards Board, IFRS Foundation | Disclosure of sustainability and climate-related risks, opportunities, scenario analysis and metrics |
| Principles for Responsible Investment | UN-supported PRI | Voluntary principles and an annual reporting framework for incorporating environmental, social and governance factors |
| ISO 31000 Risk management guidelines | International Organization for Standardization | Principles, framework and process for identifying, analysing, evaluating and treating risk in any organisation |
Trace a shock in Institutional Funds 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 Institutional Funds Nexus does.
Pension fund risk is the risk that a fund cannot pay the promises it has made, through funding gaps, longevity, interest rates, inflation, liquidity or the weakness of its sponsor. Institutional Funds Nexus, the Global Risks Alliance’s platform for pension funds, endowments, foundations and sovereign-adjacent investors, explains these risks across generations and assesses no scheme.
Its community
Pension leaders; endowment managers; trustees; institutional allocation teams.
Its methods
Long-horizon stress; systemic exposures; governance.
Its outputs
Fund resilience research; pension risk guides.
What Institutional Funds 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.
Transmission channels
How a shock in Institutional Funds Nexus reaches credit, market, underwriting, liquidity and operational risk, and feeds back.
Scenario pathways
How Institutional Funds 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? |
Shared understanding, never advice.
Institutional Funds Nexus is designed to give the industry a common, precompetitive evidence base on long-horizon systemic exposures. Each fund and its trustees make their own decisions under their own mandates.
Stress, exposure and governance
Long-horizon stress analysis, systemic exposure research and governance comparison.
Research and guides
Fund resilience research and pension risk guides, published once reviewed.
Who it is for
Pension leaders, endowment managers, trustees and institutional allocation teams.
GRA is a nonprofit business league for the financial services industry. It does not lend, underwrite, rate, invest, advise on or arrange transactions, and readiness work is not approval. Nothing on this platform is investment, actuarial, legal or tax advice, a recommendation to any fund, or a solicitation. Analysis is sector-level research.
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.
Grounded in method, linked to science and governance.
The platform applies actuarial mathematics, financial economics and macro-finance, scenario design and stress testing and decision analysis under uncertainty from the STEM Commons hosted by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). See the STEM foundation page.
At GCRI, Society and Human Development, Future of Work and Skills and Cities and Built Environment study the demographic, labour and urban changes that shape long-term liabilities and assets. At the Global Risks Forum (GRF), Information Integrity and Public Trust shares the society field, and Capital Nexus convenes on the governance of public-purpose capital. Within GRA, Asset Management Nexus and Actuarial and Quantitative Risk are close neighbours. Work can draw on the Foundry systems NXS-DSS (decision cases and deliberation) and The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX) and contribute to the Finance and Insurance Readiness and Scenario and Stress-Test series. See counterparts across the Consortium.
The areas of capital markets and investment this platform takes on.
Institutional Funds Nexus studies how pension funds, endowments, foundations and sovereign-adjacent investors carry promises across generations: funding and longevity, the match between assets and liabilities, liquidity in stress, the quality of fiduciary governance and the systemic risks that no portfolio can diversify away. It sets out the Global Risks Alliance’s shared view of the field for trustees, pension leaders, endowment managers and allocation teams. Every page names its sources and methods, and none gives investment advice.
Pension system resilience
Funding levels, longevity, scheme maturity and sponsor strength in defined benefit, collective and public reserve schemes.
Long-horizon risk
Climate, demographic and technology shifts that unfold over the life of pension promises and perpetual endowments.
Asset liability management
Interest rate and inflation hedging, discount rates, cash flow matching and the surplus risk a fund chooses to run.
Liquidity and private assets
Collateral calls, capital commitments, valuation lags and the denominator effect in portfolios with large private holdings.
Fiduciary governance
Mandates, delegation, board skills, conflicts and accountability from trustees to managers and back to members.
Institutional concentration
Shared benchmarks, managers, counterparties and holdings that link funds which look independent on paper.
Stewardship and sustainability
Voting, engagement, escalation and disclosure by long-term owners, with the limits of what activity measures show.
Intergenerational equity
How risk and return are shared between cohorts of members, taxpayers and future beneficiaries of a fund.
Built on named science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Every claim on Institutional Funds 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 Institutional Funds Nexus
- Evidence Foundry STEM foundation of the platform. Evidence in Institutional Funds Nexus
- Build Foundry Foundry. Build in Institutional Funds Nexus
- Organise Universe Nexus ecosystem. Organise in Institutional Funds Nexus
- Test Universe Universe (independent site). Test in Institutional Funds Nexus
- Publish Reports Reports. Publish in Institutional Funds Nexus
- Decide Competent authority Competent authorities and institutions, through NXS-RLS (participants, agreements and handoffs). Decide in Institutional Funds Nexus
- Renew Universe Corrections and the next annual agenda. Renew in Institutional Funds 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.
Institutional Funds 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.Institutional Funds Nexus in FoundryFoundry
- UniverseWhere scenarios are tested in controlled exercises, and finance-readiness dialogues read what they mean for capital and cover.Institutional Funds 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.Institutional Funds 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
The same field, seen three ways.
GCRI studies a field as science, GRF governs it and GRA builds shared financial understanding of it. Institutional Funds Nexus links to its counterparts so that work on one side is visible on the others.
- CampaignsInstitutionGCRIShared fieldSociety and human development
- Cities and Built EnvironmentInstitutionGCRIShared fieldSociety and human development
- Society and Human DevelopmentInstitutionGCRIShared fieldSociety and human development
- Future of Work and SkillsInstitutionGCRIShared fieldSociety and human development
- Information Integrity and Public TrustInstitutionGRFShared fieldSociety and human development
Pages in Institutional Funds 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 Institutional Funds Nexus
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.
Who publishes Institutional Funds Nexus?
Is Institutional Funds Nexus active?
How can I contribute?
Where are findings published?
Which values on this platform are real?
How do I report an error?
Does the platform advise pension funds or endowments?
Do funds share confidential data through the platform?
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How Institutional Funds Nexus works.
Choose a view and press Play to follow the platform’s process, its programme year, the standards it applies and how its findings are published. The outline shows how the work is designed to run, not the status of any decision.
Institutional Funds Nexus
How Institutional Funds 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.
Institutional Funds 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 Institutional Funds Nexus.
Start from who you are. Answer an open call. Or form and lead a competence cell on the Institutional Funds Nexus platform.
National institutions
Ministries, statistics offices and agencies: a national desk and chapter, and a seat in the working groups. National chapters
Sectors and professions
Operators, regulators, banks, insurers and professional bodies whose work touches Institutional Funds 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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Bring together three to seven people with complementary skills: data, field practice, policy and communication.
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Write to the team with the cell’s name, members, area and region. You receive a reference and a contact. Write to the team
Choose a charter
Pick one focus: research and evidence, data and maps, standards review, or community preparedness.
Learn together
Follow shared study paths at Risk Academy, with practice and a record of every course completed. Hazards and resilience
Lead and report
Hold regular sessions. Publish what the cell learns through Reports. Bring findings to the working groups. Working groups
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- 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 pageInstitutional Funds NexusMaps, figures and feeds read the Index in the context of hazards, climate, conflict.Public API
Series 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
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Hazard domains NHS-1
- Atmosphere and weatherNXS-GRX-AR-000135
- Solid EarthNXS-GRX-AR-000138
- Systemic and compound eventsNXS-GRX-AR-000148
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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
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