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Institutional Funds Nexus: Izikhwama Zezikhungo

Q: Where are findings published?

Reviewed outputs appear on the publications page , and contributions to the Reports series are listed on Publish in Reports.

Q: How do I report an error?

Use corrections and concerns , or write to the integrity concern form. A correction is recorded as a new version, never a silent edit.

Pension funds, endowments, sovereign-adjacent institutional investors and long-horizon resilience. Institutional Funds Nexus is an established platform of The Global Risks Alliance.

Open Industry scope and publisher Mayelana ne-GRA

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

01Contents

Institutional Funds Nexus in seven parts.

In this dossier7 parts

01InkingaLong promises, uncertain worlds
02FrameworksWhat the work is read against
03Ukubuka konkeWhat 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

02Inkinga

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.

03Monitor

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 liabilities
1074Normal
Surplus at risk, 1-in-20
12pct of liabilitiesWatch
Interest rate hedge
68pct of liabilities
Collateral cover
2.0×Normal

Funding ratio above triggerGRA · Institutional Funds Nexus

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

Asset-liability console: the screen’s structure, terms and states for Pension fund P.Example names and illustrative values; a design, not a record or a live system.

04Topics

The questions this field works on.

Topic

Pension system resilience

Funding and longevity exposures.

Topic

Long-term risk

Climate, demographic and technology.

Topic

Asset-liability management

Investment and liability dependencies.

Topic

Liquidity and private assets

Market stress and private holdings.

Topic

Fiduciary governance

Mandates, controls and accountability.

Topic

Institutional concentration

Cross-portfolio exposures.

Topic

Stewardship and sustainability

Responsible engagement and measurement.

Topic

Intergenerational equity

Long-term savings and social conditions.

05Scenario model

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

Izindlela

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

Idatha

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

Transition and physical risk on a portfolio. Illustrative teaching model: it runs on the values set by the controls, not on measured data. 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).

Across the six pillars, led by Nexus Consortium

Experiments Amalabhorethri
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

06Frameworks

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

07Twin and cascade simulator

Trace a shock in Institutional Funds Nexus to the balance sheet.

Assembled from the Nexus Standards area profile Abanikazi bezimpahla nokuphathwa kwezimpahla: the shocks it names, the ezinqamula 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.

Izingozi

Windstorm
Geomagnetic storm
Dam failure
Widespread power outage (set off downstream)
Large forest disturbance (set off downstream)
Umlilo wamahlathi (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

Abanikazi bezimpahla nokuphathwa kwezimpahla
Ezamabhange Ukuhlanganiswa
Amasevisi emandla namagridi Ukuhlanganiswa
Amabhange amaphakathi nabaphathi bezezimali Ukuhlanganiswa
Ezokumba nokuthathwa kwezinsiza Ukuhlanganiswa

Controls

NS-0 Umthethosisekelo nezimiso
NS-3 Ama-UNI amarekhodi obungozi (uhlelo lolimi, ukuqhathanisa nezinhlelo ezindala, igunya lokwabela)
NS-9 Ama-UNI omongo (ukufakwa, izibonelo, izibonelo zohlelo)
NS-11 Ukuqinisekisa nokuqapha (ubufakazi, izifakazelo, ukuqapha ukuhambisana ngaphandle kokwethembana)
NS-14 Ukuhambisana nokuqhathaniswa namazinga angaphandle
NRS-U1 I-Universe platform profile: Asset Management Nexus
NRS-H113 Hazard family: Financial-system fragility (NHS-1 soc.financial-system)
NRS-N6 Infrastructure risk and resilience
NRS-C3 Hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity data
NRS-M3 Method fabric: Exposure and asset intelligence
NRS-N5 Biodiversity 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

08Ukubuka konke

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.

Who it serves

Its community

Pension leaders; endowment managers; trustees; institutional allocation teams.

Indlela esebenza ngayo

Its methods

Long-horizon stress; systemic exposures; governance.

What it produces

Its outputs

Fund resilience research; pension risk guides.

09Exposure, loss and capital

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.

Channel structure after the Basel Committee’s work on climate-related risk drivers and transmission channels; links shown are typical paths, not estimated exposures.

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?

Scenario families as defined by the NGFS; the curves are an illustrative combined pressure index, not NGFS variables or forecasts.

NGFS climate scenarios · Network for Greening the Financial SystemIFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures · ISSBTCFD recommendations · Financial Stability Board TCFDPrinciples for the effective management of climate-related financial risks · Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

10What the platform does

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.

Izindlela

Stress, exposure and governance

Long-horizon stress analysis, systemic exposure research and governance comparison.

Okuphumayo

Research and guides

Fund resilience research and pension risk guides, published once reviewed.

Umphakathi

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.

11Spatial finance

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.

Sixteen assets at real towns, and the share of portfolio value in the most exposed places.Hypothetical assets and design scores, not advice.

12Foundation and counterparts

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, Umphakathi Nentuthuko Yabantu, 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), Ubuqotho Bolwazi Nokwethenjwa Ngumphakathi shares the society field, and Capital Nexus convenes on the governance of public-purpose capital. Within GRA, Asset Management Nexus: Ukuphathwa Kwezimpahla and Actuarial and Quantitative Risk are close neighbours. Work can draw on the Foundry ezinqamula 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.

13Coverage

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.

Area

Pension system resilience

Funding levels, longevity, scheme maturity and sponsor strength in defined benefit, collective and public reserve schemes.

Area

Long-horizon risk

Climate, demographic and technology shifts that unfold over the life of pension promises and perpetual endowments.

Area

Asset liability management

Interest rate and inflation hedging, discount rates, cash flow matching and the surplus risk a fund chooses to run.

Area

Liquidity and private assets

Collateral calls, capital commitments, valuation lags and the denominator effect in portfolios with large private holdings.

Area

Fiduciary governance

Mandates, delegation, board skills, conflicts and accountability from trustees to managers and back to members.

Area

Institutional concentration

Shared benchmarks, managers, counterparties and holdings that link funds which look independent on paper.

Area

Stewardship and sustainability

Voting, engagement, escalation and disclosure by long-term owners, with the limits of what activity measures show.

Area

Intergenerational equity

How risk and return are shared between cohorts of members, taxpayers and future beneficiaries of a fund.

14Grounding

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.

Actuarial mathematicsFinancial economics and macro-financeScenario design and stress testingUkuhlaziya izinqumo ngaphansi kokungaqiniseki

See the STEM foundation of Institutional Funds Nexus

15Cycle

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.

Umbuzo I-Universe National, regional or institutional priority. Question in Institutional Funds Nexus
Ubufakazi I-Foundry STEM foundation of the platform. Evidence in Institutional Funds Nexus
Yakha I-Foundry Foundry. Build in Institutional Funds Nexus
Organise I-Universe Nexus ecosystem. Organise in Institutional Funds Nexus
Hlola I-Universe Universe (independent site). Test in Institutional Funds Nexus
Shicilela Imibiko Reports. Publish in Institutional Funds Nexus
Nquma Competent authority Competent authorities and institutions, through NXS-RLS (participants, agreements and handoffs). Decide in Institutional Funds Nexus
Vuselela I-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.

Amalabhorethri
I-Foundry
I-Universe
Nexus Standards
Imibiko
Risk Academy
Competent authority (outside the programme)

16Izinsika eziyisithupha

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 Amalabhorethri, 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.

Select pillars · hover lines18 / 18 handoffs

Indlela

The whole programme

Every pillar hands its work to another; together they close the year’s feedback loops.

L · F · U · S · R · A

Izinsika: 6 of 6
Ukudlulisela: 18 of 18
Amaluphu: 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

F01 to F14 are the recorded handoffs of the programme year, each with the artefact that moves and its phase; R1, R2, R3 and R4 carry work around the ring. A loop counts when every pillar on it is selected. Every pillar is led by the Nexus Consortium.

AmalabhorethriWhere 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.Amalabhorethri
I-FoundryWhere exposure and scenario evidence is built so supervisors, insurers and investors can read it.Institutional Funds Nexus in Foundry I-Foundry
I-UniverseWhere scenarios are tested in controlled exercises, and finance-readiness dialogues read what they mean for capital and cover.Institutional Funds Nexus in Universe universe.nexus
Nexus StandardsWhere disclosure and data rules are codified so risk evidence is comparable for finance and insurance.Finance, Insurance and the Economy in Standards nexustandards.com
ImibikoWhere sector analysis and the finance and insurance readiness series are published, with exposure and limits stated.Institutional Funds Nexus in Reports Imibiko
Risk AcademyWhere finance, insurance and public-finance professionals learn to read risk evidence, on Risk Academy.Faculty of Finance and Economics in Academy risksacademy.com

17INhlangano

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.

19Connected

Where this page leads across the Consortium.

20Imibuzo

Questions and answers.

Who publishes Institutional Funds Nexus?

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) publishes Institutional Funds Nexus and is responsible for what it publishes. 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.

Is Institutional Funds Nexus active?

Institutional Funds Nexus is an established platform of The Global Risks Alliance. Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.

How can I contribute?

Start with the participation paths or write to the contact form. An enquiry receives a reference; it does not create membership, a role or an assignment.

Where are findings published?

Reviewed outputs appear on the publications page, and contributions to the Reports series are listed on Publish in Reports.

Which values on this platform are real?

Indicator names, units, sources, methods and frameworks are real. Levels in figures and canvases are examples in a design. A programme replaces them with labelled evidence it owns.

How do I report an error?

Sebenzisa corrections and concerns, or write to the integrity concern form. A correction is recorded as a new version, never a silent edit.

Does the platform advise pension funds or endowments?

No. GRA does not advise on investments or transactions. The platform publishes sector-level research for the industry as a whole; each fund’s trustees and advisers decide for that fund.

Do funds share confidential data through the platform?

Not at this service level. Any future use of data from institutions is designed to be aggregated before use, under safeguards set out in GRA’s written competition policy.

ImibikoNikela

Nikela ngobufakazi kusuka kuleli khasi.

Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.

Global Risks AllianceInstitutional Funds Nexus: Izikhwama ZezikhungoFinance and Insurance ReadinessScenario and Stress-Test

Ungalokothi uthumele idatha yomuntu siqu, imininingwane ebucayi yengqalasizinda noma noma yini ongenalo ilungelo lokuyabelana ngayo. Umnikelo ubuyekezwa ngaphambi kokusetshenziswa; ukuwuthumela akunikezi ubuqambi noma amalungelo okuhlela, futhi ukusekela akuthengi muphumela.

Indlela esebenza ngayo

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.

Process explorer · Institutional Funds Nexus

How Institutional Funds Nexus works

8 steps4 stages

Institutional Funds Nexus: Izikhwama Zezikhungo

How Institutional Funds Nexus works

Amapulatifomu · Programme year · Amazinga · Imibiko

A platform joins a field to named methods, labelled evidence and the outputs it publishes, without becoming the authority it serves.

01 Scope
1. 01Field and familiesStart · The platform leadThe home states the field, its families and who it serves.
2. 02Topic dossiersRecord · Platform authorsTopics explain the subject with labelled evidence.
02 Evidence
1. 03Amalebula obufakaziRecord · GCRIEach value is labelled: observed, published statistics, estimated, modelled, scenario or unknown.
2. 04IzindlelaStep · Method ownersMethods come from the STEM Commons, each with one canonical page.
03 Work
1. 05Scenarios on the ezinqamulaModel · Foundry pillarScenarios run on the Nexus systems, labelled as scenario.
2. 06Standards that applyRecord · Nexus StandardsThe platform names the standards that apply. A validator report is evidence for review.
04 Publish
1. 07IzishicileloRecord · ReportsFindings are published through Reports with their limits.
2. 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.

Bamba iqhaza

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.

Indlela

National institutions

Ministries, statistics offices and agencies: a national desk and chapter, and a seat in the working groups. Izahluko zikazwelonke

Indlela

Sectors and professions

Operators, regulators, banks, insurers and professional bodies whose work touches Institutional Funds Nexus. Bamba iqhaza

Indlela

Learning

Courses and practice, with a record of every course completed. Free to study. Ukufunda okuvulekile

Indlela

Amazinga

Draft, review and adopt the methods and data standards with the working groups. Amaqembu okusebenza

Indlela

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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I-Global Risks Index

Wonke amanani kuleli khasi akhonjiwe: izingozi, isimo sezulu, izingxabano, umhlaba.

205 sources451 indicators905 hazards54 series195 country profiles

Values forming2026-10-23 · 22c6eed

Ukubuka konke

01 · ImithomboImithombo ebhalisiwe engu-205Inani ngalinye ligcina umthombo nelayisense lalo; amanani abambiwe ayabalwa.Idatha namalayisense
02 · Nexus StandardsNIS-1 ne-NHS-1izinkomba ezingu-451, izingozi ezingu-905; irekhodi ngalinye linayo i-UNI.Nexus Standards
03 · Inkombauchungechunge olungu-54, amaphrofayela amazwe angu-195Kubalwa ngokwamazinga; alikho inani elishicilelwayo kuze kukhishwe uhlelo.Values formingI-Global Risks Index
04 · Leli khasiInstitutional Funds Nexus: Izikhwama ZezikhungoAmamephu, izibalo nezinkondlo zifunda i-Index kumongo wezingozi, isimo sezulu, impi.I-API yomphakathi

Imithombo205ibhalisiwe, ngayinye nelayisense layo Izinkomba451NIS-1, izinhlanganisela eziyi-106, izinkomba zemikhakha eyi-20 Izingozi905NHS-1, ehlanganiswe ne-UNDRR-ISC HIPs Uchungechunge54womhlaba, womkhakha, wamasu, wobuchwepheshe, wezihloko Izimpawu zamazwe195isayithi elilodwa ezweni ngalinye

Uchungechunge kulo mongo izingozi, isimo sezulu, ingxabano

GLBIzinhlelo ZomhlabaNXS-GRX-AR-000002
THDisaster Risk Intelligence (DRI)NXS-GRX-AR-000111
GSAmadolobha OmhlabaNXS-GRX-AR-000068
GSIsimo Sezulu SomhlabaNXS-GRX-AR-000065

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GLBIzinhlelo ZomhlabaThe 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-000002HAZCLICONSOCFOOWATHLTENEINFFISFINECOCYBTECENVDEMGOVCRSMACSPC
TH-04Disaster Risk Intelligence (DRI)Izimpawu, okubonwayo, imifudlana yezehlakalo, amaleya omhlaba namaphakheji ezimo aguqulwa abe ubuhlakani bobungozi obuhlelekile bokulungela nokuhlela.NXS-GRX-AR-000111HAZCLICONHLT
GS-10Amadolobha OmhlabaUkuchayeka kwasemadolobheni, ukushisa, izikhukhula, izindawo zokuhlala ezingahlelekile, ukuncika ezinsizakalweni nesisindo sezomnotho samadolobha asengozini.NXS-GRX-AR-000068DEMHAZINFSOCCLI
GS-07Isimo Sezulu SomhlabaIngozi yesimo sezulu engapheli neyesikhashana, ukuchayeka kwezinguquko, izikhala zokuzivumelanisa nezindlela zezimo ezicatshangwayo kuya ku-2030, 2050 no-2100.NXS-GRX-AR-000065CLIHAZENVENEFIN
GS-01Global WaterAccess, scarcity, quality, floods and droughts, groundwater depletion, transboundary dependency and the couplings of water to energy, food, health and nature.NXS-GRX-AR-000059WATHAZCLIHLTFOOENEENV
GS-02Global EnergySupply adequacy, import dependency, grid reliability, affordability, extreme-weather exposure, critical minerals and transition pathways.NXS-GRX-AR-000060ENEINFCLIECOCYBMAC
GS-03Global Food and agrifoodAcute and chronic food insecurity, production shocks, import dependency, prices, fertiliser and logistics chokepoints, nutrition and pollination dependency.NXS-GRX-AR-000061FOOWATCLIECOCONSOCENV
GS-04Global HealthHealth security capacity, epidemic emergence and spread, heat and air-quality burden, health system stress and access.NXS-GRX-AR-000062HLTSOCDEMWATCLICRS
GS-05Global Finance and economyFiscal and public debt risk, financial stability, external dependence, inflation and growth at risk, and the macro-financial channels of physical and transition risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000063FISFINECOMACCLI
GS-06Global DevelopmentPoverty, inequality, human development, demographic pressure and displacement as the ground on which shocks become losses.NXS-GRX-AR-000064SOCDEMMACHLTGOV
GS-08Global DisasterMulti-hazard exposure, disaster losses and mortality, return-period losses, protection gaps and coping capacity.NXS-GRX-AR-000066HAZCRSINFSOCFIS
GS-09Global InfrastructureInfrastructure fragility, service continuity, interdependency of power, water, transport and telecommunications, and investment exposure.NXS-GRX-AR-000067INFENECYBHAZWAT
GS-11Global BiodiversityEnvironmental pressure, ecosystem condition, nature dependency of economies and the nature–climate–water–food feedbacks.NXS-GRX-AR-000069ENVCLIWATFOOECO
GS-12Global Earth observationWhat Earth observation can and cannot see of risk: coverage, revisit, latency and the observing systems GRIx depends on.NXS-GRX-AR-000070HAZCLIENVSPCTEC
GS-13Global Cyber and digitalCyber capability and threat exposure, digital dependency, connectivity resilience and the cyber-physical channels into essential services.NXS-GRX-AR-000071CYBTECINFGOV
GS-14Global Policy and institutionsGovernance weakness, state capacity, rule of law, preparedness frameworks and the institutional ability to anticipate and adapt.NXS-GRX-AR-000072GOVCRSCON
GS-15Global Science and engineeringThe scientific, engineering and data capacity societies need to measure, model and reduce risk, and its concentration.NXS-GRX-AR-000073TECSOCGOV
SR-01Global PolycrisisHow crises become entangled: common causes, domino effects and feedbacks across climate, economy, health and security.NXS-GRX-AR-000074HAZCLICONFISFOOHLTECO
SR-02Conflict, fragility and human securityConflict risk and escalation, fragility, organised violence, civilian harm and the conflict–climate–food–displacement nexus.NXS-GRX-AR-000075CONGOVDEMFOOSOC
SR-03Supply chains, trade and chokepointsTrade concentration, maritime and overland chokepoints, input–output exposure and the propagation of supply shocks.NXS-GRX-AR-000076ECOINFENEFOOTEC
SR-04MineralsCritical-mineral concentration, processing dependency, price and export-restriction risk, and the environmental and social footprint of extraction.NXS-GRX-AR-000077ECOTECENEENVGOV
SR-05Fiscal resilienceFiscal space, debt sustainability signals, contingent liabilities from disasters, and pre-arranged finance.NXS-GRX-AR-000078FISMACFINHAZ
SR-06Displacement and demographic changeForced displacement, migration pressure, ageing, youth bulges and urbanisation as risk multipliers.NXS-GRX-AR-000079DEMSOCCONCLI
SR-07Food, water and energyThe food–water–energy nexus: shared stressors, trade-offs and joint failures.NXS-GRX-AR-000080FOOWATENECLI
SR-08Financial contagion and systemic financeInterconnected exposures, sovereign–bank links, capital-flow reversals and contagion through financial networks.NXS-GRX-AR-000081FINFISECOMAC
SR-09Planetary boundariesEarth-system boundaries and tipping elements as slow-onset, high-impact risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000082ENVCLIWATFOO
SR-10Ingqalasizinda yedijithali yomphakathiIdentity, payments and data-exchange infrastructure as public goods, and their concentration, cyber and continuity risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000083CYBTECGOVINF
SR-11Information integrity and social cohesionInformation disorder, polarisation, trust and cohesion as amplifiers of every other risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000084GOVSOCCONCYB
SR-12Health security and biosecurityPandemic and epidemic preparedness, antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic spillover and biosecurity controls, at public-safe level.NXS-GRX-AR-000085HLTENVCRSGOV
SR-13Strategic technologyConcentration and control of strategic technologies, export controls and technological dependency.NXS-GRX-AR-000086TECECOCYB
SR-14Global catastrophic and tail riskLow-probability, high-impact and global catastrophic risks: severe space weather, super-eruptions, engineered and natural pandemics, nuclear and frontier-technology failure modes, compound collapses.NXS-GRX-AR-000087SPCHAZHLTTECCON
TH-01WEFH-B InterdependencyThe water, energy, food, health and biodiversity systems read together: drought to energy stress, energy disruption to health stress, biodiversity loss to food-system stress, flood to water contamination, heat to…NXS-GRX-AR-000108WATENEFOOHLTENV
TH-02Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)Hazard, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, preparedness, redundancy and recovery readings for planning and learning, aligned to the Sendai Framework targets.NXS-GRX-AR-000109HAZCRSINFSOC
TH-03Disaster Risk Finance (DRF)Loss sensitivity, protection gaps, contingent liabilities and the readiness questions for pre-arranged finance, insurance and risk transfer.NXS-GRX-AR-000110FISHAZFINCRS
XT-01Artificial Intelligence and Agentic SystemsAI and agentic systems as physical infrastructure (compute, energy, water, materials and supply chains) and as a hazard source: failure, misuse, concentration and oversight gaps.NXS-GRX-AR-000088TECCYBENEWATGOV
XT-02Cyber and cyber-physical systemsThreats to operational technology, industrial control and cyber-physical systems across energy, water, health, ports and logistics.NXS-GRX-AR-000089CYBINFENE
XT-03Telecommunications, open radio networks and edgeTelecom resilience, open and AI-native radio access networks, private wireless, edge compute and spectrum constraints.NXS-GRX-AR-000090INFCYBTEC
XT-04Sovereign compute, HPC and cloudCompute dependency and concentration, cloud and data-residency risk, accelerator supply and secure compute.NXS-GRX-AR-000091TECCYBENE
XT-05Quantum-relevant securityCryptographic resilience and the migration to post-quantum cryptography across public and financial systems.NXS-GRX-AR-000092CYBTECFIN
XT-06SemiconductorsSemiconductor supply concentration, fabrication chokepoints, materials and equipment dependency and export-control exposure.NXS-GRX-AR-000093TECECOINF
XT-07Earth observation and space systemsDependency on satellites for navigation, communications and observation; orbital congestion, debris and space-weather exposure.NXS-GRX-AR-000094SPCTECINF
XT-08Drones, robotics and autonomous systemsAutonomous and robotic systems in logistics, agriculture, industry and security: failure, misuse and safety oversight.NXS-GRX-AR-000095TECINFCON
XT-09Sensors, IoT and industrial IoTConnected sensing and control across cities, utilities and industry: attack surface, data integrity and dependency.NXS-GRX-AR-000096CYBINFTEC
XT-10Digital twins and simulationDigital twins and simulation used for risk decisions: model risk, validation and dependency.NXS-GRX-AR-000097TECGOV
XT-11Digital identity and trustIdentity, authentication and trust infrastructure: exclusion, fraud, breach and concentration risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000098CYBGOVSOC
XT-12Positioning, navigation and timingDependency of power, telecom, finance and transport on positioning and timing signals; jamming, spoofing and space weather.NXS-GRX-AR-000099SPCINFCYB
XT-13Energy transition technologiesBatteries, hydrogen, grid storage, renewables and their supply chains, failure modes and transition risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000100ENETECECOCLI
XT-14Software and supply-chain integrityOpen-source and commercial software dependencies, build integrity and provenance across critical systems.NXS-GRX-AR-000101CYBTEC
XT-15Ubuchwepheshe bezempilo nokuvikelwa kwezinto eziphilayoBiotechnology capability and governance at public-safe level: laboratory biosafety, oversight and detection capacity; no capability information is published.NXS-GRX-AR-000102HLTTECGOV
XT-16Advanced manufacturingAdvanced and additive manufacturing, industrial automation and their supply, cyber and labour risks.NXS-GRX-AR-000103TECECOCYB
XT-17Distributed ledgers and decentralised infrastructureDistributed ledgers and decentralised physical infrastructure networks: operational, financial-stability and governance risk.NXS-GRX-AR-000104FINTECCYB
XT-18Climate intervention technologiesCarbon removal and proposed climate interventions: physical, governance and termination risks, read from published assessments only.NXS-GRX-AR-000105CLIENVGOVTEC
XT-19Neurotechnology and human augmentationNeurotechnology and augmentation: safety, privacy, equity and governance risks.NXS-GRX-AR-000106TECHLTGOV
XT-20Ubuchwepheshe obuhlangeneRisks that emerge where frontier technologies combine (AI with biotechnology, autonomy with cyber, compute with energy) and outrun single-technology governance.NXS-GRX-AR-000107TECCYBHLTGOV

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Umthombo	Origin	Licence	Legal status	Commercial use
OpenStreetMap building footprints and height tags`osm.vector.buildings`	www.openstreetmap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenStreetMap planet extracts and minutely/hourly/daily replication`osm.planet.replication`	planet.openstreetmap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenFreeMap Liberty / planet vector tiles (OSM-derived style lineage; public host not used at runtime)`osm.openfreemap.liberty`	tiles.openfreemap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
VersaTiles OSM Shortbread vector tiles (OSM-derived COP catalog)`osm.versatiles.shortbread`	tiles.versatiles.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenFreeMap public instance (tiles.openfreemap.org) as the browser-direct vector basemap of the Risk Academy non-profit pages`osm.openfreemap.academy-public`	tiles.openfreemap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
VersaTiles public tile server (tiles.versatiles.org) as a browser-direct vector basemap of the Risk Academy non-profit pages`osm.versatiles.academy-public`	tiles.versatiles.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
OpenStreetMap Foundation vector tiles (vector.openstreetmap.org, Shortbread) on the Risk Academy non-profit pages, tiles only`osm.osmf-vector.academy-public`	vector.openstreetmap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
OpenAlex works API (api.openalex.org) as a live research source of the Risk Academy hub`openalex.academy-public`	api.openalex.org	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Crossref REST API (api.crossref.org) as a live research source of the Risk Academy hub`crossref.academy-public`	api.crossref.org	LicenseRef-Crossref-Metadata-Facts	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Europe PMC RESTful web service (www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc) as a live research and preprint source of the Risk Academy hub`europepmc.academy-public`	www.ebi.ac.uk	LicenseRef-EMBL-EBI-Terms-of-Use	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GDELT DOC 2.0 API (api.gdeltproject.org) as a live news source of the Risk Academy hub`gdelt.academy-public`	api.gdeltproject.org	LicenseRef-GDELT-Open-Use-With-Citation	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
ReliefWeb API v2 (api.reliefweb.int) as a live humanitarian source of the Risk Academy hub, once an appname is approved`reliefweb.academy-public`	api.reliefweb.int	LicenseRef-ReliefWeb-Terms	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
arXiv API (export.arxiv.org) metadata as a preprint source of the Risk Academy hub, through the relay or the daily snapshot`arxiv.academy-public`	export.arxiv.org	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Google News RSS search feeds (news.google.com/rss) as headline links on the Risk Academy hub, through the relay or the daily snapshot`google-news-rss.academy-public`	news.google.com	LicenseRef-Google-News-Feed-Personal-Use-Only	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (30 m global DSM), self-hosted Terrarium terrain archive`copernicus.dem.glo30`	registry.opendata.aws	LicenseRef-Copernicus-DEM	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Sentinel-2 Level-2A surface reflectance COGs (AWS Open Data, Earth Search catalogue)`copernicus.sentinel2.l2a.cogs`	registry.opendata.aws	LicenseRef-Copernicus-Sentinel-Data	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Copernicus DEM GLO-30 / GLO-90 COGs read on demand by nexus-raster`copernicus.dem.glo30.cogs`	registry.opendata.aws	LicenseRef-Copernicus-DEM	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
ESA WorldCover 10 m land cover (2020 / 2021) COGs`esa.worldcover.10m`	registry.opendata.aws	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Definition & Classification Review, 2025 Update of the Technical Report (Hazard Information Profiles classification, identifiers and multi-hazard method)`undrr-isc.hip-classification.2025`	doi.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (bundled same-origin GeoJSON)`naturalearth.admin0.110m`	www.naturalearthdata.com	LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Natural-Earth	APPROVED	`ALLOWED`
geoBoundaries gbOpen administrative boundaries API (ADM0-ADM5)`geoboundaries.gbopen`	www.geoboundaries.org	Per-boundary source licence (boundaryLicense), admitted per country by the boundary licence gate	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
ohsome OSM history API (operator-bound only)`osm.history.ohsome`	api.ohsome.org	ODbL-1.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Nexus self-hosted OpenStreetMap planet basemap (Planetiler OpenMapTiles profile, PMTiles)`osm.planet.omt.self-hosted`	planet.openstreetmap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenStreetMap Overpass API (bounded investigation / gap-fill)`osm.overpass`	wiki.openstreetmap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenStreetMap planet on the Nexus self-hosted Overpass engine (clone + minute replication)`osm.overpass.self-hosted-planet`	planet.openstreetmap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenStreetMap regional extracts (Geofabrik download server) for bounded engine builds`osm.geofabric.regional-extracts`	download.geofabrik.de	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Overture Maps buildings theme (GeoParquet)`overture.buildings`	docs.overturemaps.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Overture Maps places theme (GeoParquet, read in place)`overture.places`	docs.overturemaps.org	CDLA-Permissive-2.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
City of Toronto Open Data asset registers (facilities, infrastructure and heritage datasets)`toronto.open-data.asset-registers`	open.toronto.ca	Open Government Licence – Toronto (based on version 1.0 of the Open Government Licence – Ontario); not yet reviewed	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Ontario Data Catalogue asset registers (provincial facilities and infrastructure datasets)`ontario.data-catalogue.asset-registers`	data.ontario.ca	Open Government Licence – Ontario; not yet reviewed	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GlobalBuildingAtlas ODbL building polygons (OSM + Microsoft), research isolated`gba.odbl.polygon`	huggingface.co	ODbL-1.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
GlobalBuildingAtlas non-ODbL polygons (Google Open Buildings, CLSM, PSR-derived)`gba.bync.polygon`	huggingface.co	CC-BY-NC-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
GlobalBuildingAtlas LoD1 JSON linking polygons to height/variance`gba.bync.lod1`	huggingface.co	CC-BY-NC-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
GlobalBuildingAtlas 3 m building height GeoTIFF (GBA.Height)`gba.bync.height`	mediatum.ub.tum.de	CC-BY-NC-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
GlobalBuildingAtlas generation software (im2bf, im2bh, produce_lod1)`gba.generation.code`	github.com	MIT-with-Commons-Clause	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embedding dataset (annual, 64-band, 10 m)`alphaearth.satellite-embedding.annual`	developers.google.com	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
geoBoundaries gbOpen ADM0 to ADM5 boundaries (William & Mary geoLab)`geoboundaries.gbopen.adm`	www.geoboundaries.org	NOASSERTION	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
UN OCHA Common Operational Datasets, Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB, P-codes) on HDX`ocha.cod-ab`	data.humdata.org	Per-country licence published on HDX (license_id), admitted per country by the boundary licence gate	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
UN Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB), UN Geospatial / UN Statistics Division`un.salb.adm`	salb.un.org	SALB Terms of Use (2021). Copyright vested in the United Nations; "The SALB Data may be used… SALB Terms of Use (2021). Copyright vested in the United Nations; "The SALB Data may be used for only non-commercial purposes"; users are prohibited from changing the geometry or content without consent of the Contributor; derived products must credit "from SALB Data, United Nations" and the Contributor; access is revocable and non-transferable.	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
UN Geodata country boundaries (UN Geospatial BNDA, the basis of the UN Clear Map)`un.geodata.bnda`	www.un.org	Terms of Use of the UN Geodata: designed for the production of maps for the UN Secretariat;… Terms of Use of the UN Geodata: designed for the production of maps for the UN Secretariat; Outside Users may use the Data only for the purpose identified by the Geospatial Information Section; "Under no circumstances may the Data be used for commercial purposes"; the UN must be recognised as the source unless the data is altered or combined.	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb States and Counties (TIGER/Line geography)`us.census.tigerweb.adm`	tigerweb.geo.census.gov	LicenseRef-US-Government-Work	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Statistics Canada 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files (provinces and territories, census divisions, census subdivisions)`ca.statcan.boundary-files`	geo.statcan.gc.ca	Open Government Licence - Canada, version 2.0 (open.canada.ca record "2021 Census - Boundary… Open Government Licence - Canada, version 2.0 (open.canada.ca record "2021 Census - Boundary files", license_id ca-ogl-lgo; the service description states "Use Limitation: Open Government Licence - Canada"). Worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information, including for commercial purposes, on condition that the source is acknowledged ("Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada") and no official status or endorsement is implied. Approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-goc-ogl-canada-boundaries).	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
INSPIRE Administrative Units (EU Member State national mapping and cadastral agencies)`eu.inspire.au`	inspire.ec.europa.eu	Set per Member State dataset (no single licence). Each national dataset needs its own licence… Set per Member State dataset (no single licence). Each national dataset needs its own licence check before it can be admitted.	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
ISO 3166-1 country codes and ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes (International Organization for Standardization)`iso.3166`	www.iso.org	ISO copyright. ISO's help centre: purchased Country Codes "can be downloaded to your database… ISO copyright. ISO's help centre: purchased Country Codes "can be downloaded to your database and used in order to implement the standard ISO 3166. However, selling them to others and further reproduction is not permitted."	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Unicode CLDR subdivision ids and names (ISO 3166-2 based)`unicode.cldr.subdivisions`	github.com	Unicode-3.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
UN Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49)`unsd.m49`	unstats.un.org	United Nations terms of use (code list; attribution)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GADM database of Global Administrative Areas`gadm.boundaries`	gadm.org	GADM licence (free for academic and other non-commercial use; commercial use not allowed without permission)	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
World Bank Open Data (Indicators API v2, World Development Indicators and other catalogue datasets)`worldbank.open-data`	api.worldbank.org	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Eurostat dissemination API (SDMX 2.1 / JSON-stat statistics)`eurostat.dissemination`	ec.europa.eu	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
OECD Data Explorer SDMX API`oecd.data-explorer`	sdmx.oecd.org	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
UNdata (United Nations Statistics Division data portal)`un.data`	data.un.org	UNdata terms of use (free of charge; may be copied and redistributed provided UNdata is cited as the reference)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GBIF occurrence API and downloads (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)`gbif.occurrence`	api.gbif.org	Per-dataset CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0 (set by each data publisher)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
ERA5 reanalysis via the Copernicus Climate Data Store (C3S / ECMWF)`ecmwf.era5.cds`	cds.climate.copernicus.eu	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center active storms, forecast tracks and cones (Atlantic, East and Central Pacific)`noaa.nhc.tropical-cyclones`	www.nhc.noaa.gov	U.S. Government work (NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center), public domain per the NHC… U.S. Government work (NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center), public domain per the NHC disclaimer; approved by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-noaa-nhc-nws-spc)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA NCEI Access Data Service (climate observations and archives)`noaa.ncei.access`	www.ncei.noaa.gov	U.S. Government work (public domain) except datasets that carry their own restrictions (e.g. some non-U.S. station data)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
NASA Earthdata Common Metadata Repository (CMR) search`nasa.earthdata.cmr`	cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Alaska Satellite Facility DAAC (ASF) data pool downloads`nasa.earthdata.daac.asf`	asf.alaska.edu	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as… NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC, USGS EROS) on-premises data pool downloads`nasa.earthdata.daac.lpdaac`	lpdaac.usgs.gov	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as… NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC) downloads`nasa.earthdata.daac.nsidc`	nsidc.org	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as… NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC) downloads`nasa.earthdata.daac.ornl`	daac.ornl.gov	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as… NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC, JPL) tool and OPeNDAP hosts`nasa.earthdata.daac.podaac`	podaac.jpl.nasa.gov	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as… NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) on-premises hosts`nasa.earthdata.daac.gesdisc`	disc.gsfc.nasa.gov	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as… NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested), as stated on the NASA Earthdata open data policy page; per-collection terms not reviewed	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
EM-DAT international disaster database (CRED, UCLouvain)`emdat.cred`	www.emdat.be	EM-DAT terms of use (registration required; free for non-commercial use; commercial use needs a CRED licence)	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
NOAA National Weather Service API active alerts (CAP v1.2 as GeoJSON)`noaa.nws.alerts`	api.weather.gov	U.S. Government work (NOAA National Weather Service), public domain per the NWS disclaimer;… U.S. Government work (NOAA National Weather Service), public domain per the NWS disclaimer; approved by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-noaa-nhc-nws-spc)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA National Weather Service API points metadata and gridpoint forecasts`noaa.nws.points`	api.weather.gov	U.S. Government work (NOAA National Weather Service), public domain per the NWS disclaimer;… U.S. Government work (NOAA National Weather Service), public domain per the NWS disclaimer; approved by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-noaa-nhc-nws-spc)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center convective outlooks (GeoJSON) and preliminary storm reports (CSV)`noaa.spc.products`	www.spc.noaa.gov	U.S. Government work (NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center), public domain per the NWS disclaimer;… U.S. Government work (NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center), public domain per the NWS disclaimer; approved by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-noaa-nhc-nws-spc)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
MET Norway Locationforecast 2.0 (api.met.no point forecasts)`metno.locationforecast`	api.met.no	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET) v3 events`nasa.eonet.events`	eonet.gsfc.nasa.gov	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; acknowledgement… NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; acknowledgement requested); EONET metadata is subject to the EONET disclaimer; event source links keep their own terms; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-open-weather-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) Open Data server (opendata.dwd.de)`dwd.opendata`	opendata.dwd.de	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Environment and Climate Change Canada MSC GeoMet (OGC API / WMS) and MSC Datamart`eccc.geomet`	api.weather.gc.ca	Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence (the licence page does not… Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence (the licence page does not name the Open Government Licence - Canada); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-open-weather-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
ECMWF open data (IFS and AIFS real-time forecasts)`ecmwf.open-data`	data.ecmwf.int	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Copernicus Emergency Management Service rapid mapping activations and products`copernicus.ems.rapid-mapping`	rapidmapping.emergency.copernicus.eu	Copernicus free, full and open data policy (Delegated Regulation (EU) 1159/2013, Regulation… Copernicus free, full and open data policy (Delegated Regulation (EU) 1159/2013, Regulation (EU) 377/2014; the EMS terms page now cites Regulation (EU) 2021/696); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
GloFAS global flood forecasts and reanalysis (CEMS-Floods, Early Warning Data Store)`copernicus.glofas`	ewds.climate.copernicus.eu	CEMS-FLOODS datasets licence (rev. 1); approved with conditions by the repository owner on… CEMS-FLOODS datasets licence (rev. 1); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
JRC global river flood hazard maps (flood depth by return period, European Commission JRC)`jrc.global-river-flood-hazard-maps`	data.jrc.ec.europa.eu	Not recorded in the repository; the release-specific terms (JRC Data Catalogue record or the… Not recorded in the repository; the release-specific terms (JRC Data Catalogue record or the CEMS-Floods distribution) must be confirmed by Legal/IP per release	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
WRI Aqueduct Floods hazard maps (riverine and coastal inundation depth by return period and scenario)`wri.aqueduct-floods`	www.wri.org	Not recorded in the repository; WRI dataset terms for the Aqueduct Floods release must be confirmed by Legal/IP	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
WRI Aqueduct 4.0 Water Risk Atlas indicators (baseline water stress and related sub-basin indicators; baseline and SSP projections)`wri.aqueduct-4.0-water-risk-atlas`	www.wri.org	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International as stated in the Aqueduct FAQ… Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International as stated in the Aqueduct FAQ (https://www.wri.org/aqueduct/faq, retrieved 2026-10-12: the Aqueduct 4.0 database is licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License"); the data page lists only "Creative Commons". Not confirmed by Legal/IP	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA, formerly WDPA) via Protected Planet (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN)`unep-wcmc.wdpa`	www.protectedplanet.net	Protected Planet terms of use (https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/legal, retrieved 2026-10-12):… Protected Planet terms of use (https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/legal, retrieved 2026-10-12): the materials and derived works may not be put to Commercial Use without the prior written permission of UNEP-WCMC (commercial use covers use by, for or to inform a for-profit entity and revenue generation by individuals or non-profits; UNEP-WCMC decides what is commercial; commercial users are referred to IBAT); no redistribution or sub-licensing of the data, including within derived works, without permission	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas (BirdLife International on behalf of the KBA Partnership)`birdlife.kba`	www.keybiodiversityareas.org	KBA terms of service (https://www.keybiodiversityareas.org/termsofservice, retrieved… KBA terms of service (https://www.keybiodiversityareas.org/termsofservice, retrieved 2026-10-12): KBA data may not be used for Commercial Use (use by, on behalf of, or to inform or assist a commercial entity, or revenue generation by individuals or non-profits) without the prior written approval of the KBA Secretariat; KBA Partners license commercial use through IBAT; no reposting, sublicensing, resale or redistribution, including within derivative works, without written permission; non-commercial conservation, education, scientific analysis and research use permitted without prior permission	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
CHIRPS quasi-global gridded precipitation (UC Santa Barbara Climate Hazards Center)`ucsb-chc.chirps`	www.chc.ucsb.edu	Copyright waiver stated on https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps (retrieved 2026-10-12): "To the… Copyright waiver stated on https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data/chirps (retrieved 2026-10-12): "To the extent possible under the law, Pete Peterson has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to CHIRPS. CHIRPS data is in the public domain as registered with Creative Commons." (a CC0-style waiver; SPDX identifier not confirmed by Legal/IP)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GEM Global Seismic Hazard Map (PGA for a stated probability of exceedance, Global Earthquake Model Foundation)`gem.global-seismic-hazard-map`	www.globalquakemodel.org	Not recorded in the repository; the plan records GEM hazard products as expected non-commercial… Not recorded in the repository; the plan records GEM hazard products as expected non-commercial (human gate G2); terms must be confirmed by Legal/IP	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
NOAA Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor System (MRMS) on AWS (NOAA Open Data Dissemination)`noaa.mrms.aws`	noaa-mrms-pds.s3.amazonaws.com	U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can… U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can be used as desired"); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA GOES-16/18/19 ABI and GLM on AWS (NOAA Open Data Dissemination)`noaa.goes.aws`	noaa-goes19.s3.amazonaws.com	U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can… U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can be used as desired"); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) on AWS (NOAA Open Data Dissemination)`noaa.hrrr.aws`	noaa-hrrr-bdp-pds.s3.amazonaws.com	U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can… U.S. Government work, public domain; NOAA Open Data Dissemination ("open to the public and can be used as desired"); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
WMO Alert Hub / Register of Alerting Authorities CAP official alerts`wmo.cap.alert-hub`	alertingauthority.wmo.int	WMO Unified Data Policy (Resolution 1, Cg-Ext(2021)), free and unrestricted exchange, plus each… WMO Unified Data Policy (Resolution 1, Cg-Ext(2021)), free and unrestricted exchange, plus each issuing alerting authority's own terms; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
USGS Water Data APIs (NWIS instantaneous and daily values, OGC API)`usgs.waterdata`	api.waterdata.usgs.gov	U.S. Public Domain (USGS information policy); approved with conditions by the repository owner… U.S. Public Domain (USGS information policy); approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-11 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-11-owner-top-sources)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL, European Commission JRC)`jrc.ghsl`	jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
WorldPop gridded population and REST API (University of Southampton)`worldpop.population`	hub.worldpop.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
INFORM Risk Index (European Commission JRC, Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre)`jrc.inform.risk`	drmkc.jrc.ec.europa.eu	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Statistics Canada Web Data Service (WDS) and 2021 Census Profile (SDMX API, CSD / DA level)`statcan.wds-census`	www150.statcan.gc.ca	Statistics Canada Open Licence (statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence, date modified… Statistics Canada Open Licence (statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence, date modified 2025-07-10; no version number stated)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NRCan CanElevation High Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM, DTM / DSM; STAC and GeoTIFF)`nrcan.canelevation.hrdem`	datacube.services.geo.ca	Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0 (stated on the open.canada.ca dataset record 957782bf-847c-4644-a757-e383c0057995)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NRCan Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping Program (FHIMP) flood hazard data`nrcan.flood-hazard-mapping`	natural-resources.canada.ca	Not stated on the FHIMP programme page (retrieved 2026-10-11); NRCan open.canada.ca records use… Not stated on the FHIMP programme page (retrieved 2026-10-11); NRCan open.canada.ca records use the Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0, but provincial and municipal flood maps produced with FHIMP funding may carry their own licences. Per-dataset check required.	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
City of Toronto Open Data portal (CKAN API)`toronto.open-data`	ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca	Open Government Licence - Toronto 1.0 (open.toronto.ca/open-data-licence, retrieved 2026-10-11)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Ontario Data Catalogue (data.ontario.ca, CKAN API)`ontario.data-catalogue`	data.ontario.ca	Open Government Licence - Ontario 1.0 (ontario.ca/page/open-government-licence-ontario, retrieved 2026-10-11)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenStreetMap Foundation standard tile server, BLOCKED for Nexus`osm.tiles.osmf-standard`	operations.osmfoundation.org	ODbL-1.0	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
OpenStreetMap US community tile service (default tiles of the OSM Americana style), BLOCKED for Nexus`osm-us.tile-service`	tiles.openstreetmap.us	ODbL-1.0	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
OSM Americana map style (CC0 style code, drawn on the self-hosted OpenMapTiles archive)`osm.americana.style`	github.com	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenMapTiles vector tile schema and cartographic design`openmaptiles.schema`	github.com	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Shortbread vector tile schema (VersaTiles basemap schema)`shortbread.schema`	shortbread-tiles.org	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Protomaps basemap daily planet builds (PMTiles, ODbL produced work), copied to Nexus storage`protomaps.basemap.daily-builds`	maps.protomaps.com	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Protomaps hosted Tile API, BLOCKED (commercial use requires paid sponsorship)`protomaps.api.hosted`	protomaps.com	ODbL-1.0	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
MapLibre demo tiles and style, BLOCKED (demo / CI set containing CC BY-NC-SA imagery)`maplibre.demotiles`	github.com	LicenseRef-Mixed-Including-CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
Overture Maps base theme (land, water, land use, infrastructure; GeoParquet, ODbL family)`overture.base`	docs.overturemaps.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Overture Maps transportation theme (segments, connectors; GeoParquet, ODbL family)`overture.transportation`	docs.overturemaps.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Overture Maps divisions theme (administrative divisions and boundaries; GeoParquet, ODbL family)`overture.divisions`	docs.overturemaps.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Overture Maps addresses theme, BLOCKED until a per-source licence gate exists`overture.addresses`	docs.overturemaps.org	Per-source ("All carry permissive open licenses. Some have special terms or require attribution."); not uniform	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Overture official PMTiles (overturemaps-extras bucket), BLOCKED for production by the publisher`overture.pmtiles.inspection`	docs.overturemaps.org	LicenseRef-Overture-Per-Theme	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
Natural Earth vector and raster data, all scales (1:10m, 1:50m, 1:110m), bundled same-origin`naturalearth.all-scales`	www.naturalearthdata.com	LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Natural-Earth	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (permissive family)`microsoft.global-ml-building-footprints`	github.com	CDLA-Permissive-2.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Google Open Buildings v3 polygons (used under CC BY 4.0, permissive family)`google.open-buildings.v3`	sites.research.google	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Google Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal dataset, BLOCKED (licence not stated on the retrieved page)`google.open-buildings.temporal`	sites.research.google	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GEBCO global bathymetric grid (self-hosted bathymetry / hillshade tiles)`gebco.grid`	www.gebco.net	LicenseRef-Public-Domain-GEBCO	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenAerialMap / Open Imagery Network imagery (per-image COGs, CC BY 4.0)`openaerialmap.oin`	openaerialmap.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
EOxCloudless / Sentinel-2 cloudless mosaics (all years), BLOCKED (commercial use needs an EOX licence)`eox.sentinel2-cloudless`	cloudless.eox.at	LicenseRef-EOX-Commercial-Attribution-RestrictedUse-1.2	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
Mapzen / AWS Terrain Tiles (Terrarium, multi-source), BLOCKED (EU-DEM component licence not stated)`aws.terrain-tiles.mapzen`	registry.opendata.aws	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
OpenSeaMap seamark chart tiles, BLOCKED (no tile usage policy published; render seamarks from the OSM planet instead)`openseamap.chart-tiles`	wiki.openstreetmap.org	CC-BY-SA-2.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
OpenRailwayMap tile servers, BLOCKED for for-profit use by the operator`openrailwaymap.tiles`	wiki.openstreetmap.org	CC-BY-SA-2.0	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
Wikimedia Maps tile service, BLOCKED (Wikimedia projects only)`wikimedia.maps.tiles`	foundation.wikimedia.org	ODbL-1.0	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
Who's On First gazetteer, BLOCKED until a per-source licence gate exists`whosonfirst.gazetteer`	whosonfirst.org	Per-source (CC BY 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0, CC0, MPL-2.0, Open Government Licences, custom terms, some… Per-source (CC BY 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0, CC0, MPL-2.0, Open Government Licences, custom terms, some sources with no licence link)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
OpenAddresses aggregated address data, BLOCKED until a per-source licence gate exists`openaddresses.global`	github.com	Per-source; the data "is not relicensed from the original sources" and "Individual sources will have their own licenses"	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GeoNames gazetteer (daily dumps, self-hosted)`geonames.gazetteer`	www.geonames.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
USGS The National Map basemap services and data (US public domain)`usgs.national-map`	www.usgs.gov	LicenseRef-US-Public-Domain	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products (CORINE, high-resolution layers, global land products)`copernicus.clms.land`	land.copernicus.eu	LicenseRef-Copernicus-Data-Policy	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
IMF data services (DataMapper, SDMX: WEO/IFS)`imf.data`	data.imf.org	"IMF terms — attribution required" (adapter string; terms version not recorded)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
WHO Global Health Observatory (OData API)`who.gho`	www.who.int	"WHO CC BY-NC-SA / terms" (adapter string; not verified)	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
FAOSTAT statistical database`fao.faostat`	www.fao.org	CC BY 4.0 unless the dataset metadata states otherwise; third-party series excluded (FAO… CC BY 4.0 unless the dataset metadata states otherwise; third-party series excluded (FAO database terms of use, https://www.fao.org/contact-us/terms/db-terms-of-use/en/, read 2026-10-19); the earlier adapter string read CC BY-NC-SA	PROHIBITED	`PROHIBITED`
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder API`unhcr.refugee-statistics`	www.unhcr.org	"CC BY 4.0" (adapter string; not verified)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
ACLED Armed Conflict Location & Event Data`acled.events`	acleddata.com	ACLED End User License Agreement (EULA), "Last Updated 8 July 2025" (retrieved 2026-10-12; not… ACLED End User License Agreement (EULA), "Last Updated 8 July 2025" (retrieved 2026-10-12; not an open licence and not yet reviewed by Legal/IP)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (GED) and Candidate Events (Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University)`ucdp.ged`	ucdp.uu.se	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
DesInventar disaster loss databases (UNDRR)`undrr.desinventar`	www.desinventar.net	"DesInventar / UNDRR terms / fixture metadata" (connector string)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
IPC Integrated Food Security Phase Classification`ipc.classification`	www.ipcinfo.org	"IPC public" (connector string; terms not recorded)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
FEWS NET Famine Early Warning Systems Network data`fewsnet.data`	fews.net	"FEWS NET terms / fixture metadata" (connector string)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
NGFS climate scenarios (IIASA NGFS Scenario Explorer)`ngfs.scenarios`	data.ece.iiasa.ac.at	Not recorded in the repository; scenario-explorer terms must be recorded by Legal/IP per phase	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
JRC global flood depth-damage functions (Huizinga, de Moel, Szewczyk 2017, EUR 28552 EN)`jrc.global-flood-depth-damage`	publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu	Not recorded in the repository; the report and its database are JRC publications whose reuse… Not recorded in the repository; the report and its database are JRC publications whose reuse terms (EC legal notice or a dataset-specific licence) must be confirmed by Legal/IP	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 5 (ISIC Rev.5), United Nations Statistics Division`un.isic-rev5`	unstats.un.org	United Nations publication; reuse terms not recorded in the repository. The UN website terms of… United Nations publication; reuse terms not recorded in the repository. The UN website terms of use page (un.org) could not be retrieved when this row was written (HTTP 403), so no licence text was read. Legal/IP must record the UN terms of use and any ISIC-specific copyright statement	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Earth Index embeddings (Earth Genome; SoftCon, 384-d, Sentinel-2 annual mosaics, GeoParquet points)`earthgenome.earth-index.embeddings`	source.coop	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Panoramax street-level pictures (federated instances; per-picture licence)`panoramax.street-level.pictures`	api.panoramax.xyz	Per picture as stated by the originating instance (etalab-2.0 or CC-BY-SA-4.0 observed 2026-10-12)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Mapillary street-level images (Graph API v4)`mapillary.street-level.images`	www.mapillary.com	CC-BY-SA-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
NASA ICESat-2 ATLAS products ATL03, ATL06 and ATL08 (NSIDC DAAC)`nasa.icesat2.atlas`	nsidc.org	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
NASA GEDI footprint products L2A, L2B (LP DAAC) and L4A (ORNL DAAC)`nasa.gedi.footprints`	gedi.umd.edu	NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy (full and open sharing; citation requested)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
NOAA GFS forecast (global 0.25 degree, 0-16 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.2.7)`dynamical.noaa-gfs-forecast`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA GFS analysis (global 0.25 degree, hourly) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.0)`dynamical.noaa-gfs-analysis`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA GEFS ensemble forecast (global, 31 members, 0-35 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.2.0)`dynamical.noaa-gefs-forecast-35-day`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA GEFS analysis (global 0.25 degree) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.2)`dynamical.noaa-gefs-analysis`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA HRRR forecast (CONUS 3 km, 0-48 hour) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.0)`dynamical.noaa-hrrr-forecast-48-hour`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA HRRR analysis (CONUS 3 km, hourly) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.2.0)`dynamical.noaa-hrrr-analysis`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA MRMS CONUS hourly precipitation analysis (0.01 degree) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.3.0)`dynamical.noaa-mrms-conus-analysis-hourly`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
ECMWF IFS ENS forecast (global 0.25 degree, 51 members, 0-15 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.0)`dynamical.ecmwf-ifs-ens-forecast-15-day-0-25-degree`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
ECMWF AIFS Single forecast (global 0.25 degree, 0-15 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.1.0)`dynamical.ecmwf-aifs-single-forecast`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
DWD ICON-EU forecast (Europe, 0-5 day) via dynamical.org (Zarr v0.2.0)`dynamical.dwd-icon-eu-forecast-5-day`	dynamical.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
CelesTrak GP orbital element sets (OMM JSON) for the Maps satellite layer`celestrak.gp.elements`	celestrak.org	CelesTrak usage policy (free public GP data; attribution to CelesTrak; one download per group per 2-hour update cycle)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
SGP4 verification element sets and reference states (Vallado, Crawford, Hujsak, Kelso, AIAA 2006-6753)`aiaa-2006-6753.sgp4-verification`	celestrak.org	Published verification data accompanying the AIAA 2006-6753 paper; no explicit licence stated	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program GeoJSON summary feeds for the Maps live earthquake layer`usgs.earthquake.summary-feeds`	earthquake.usgs.gov	U.S. Government work (public domain); USGS asks that it be acknowledged as the source; approved… U.S. Government work (public domain); USGS asks that it be acknowledged as the source; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-20 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-20-owner-hex-coherence, adopting the KEEP decision in docs/legal/LICENCE_DECISIONS_AND_AUDIT_2026-10-19.md)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
USGS ShakeMap event products (grid.xml MMI / PGA grid and MMI contours) for live event response and exposure accumulation`usgs.shakemap.event-products`	earthquake.usgs.gov	U.S. Government work (public domain); USGS asks that it be acknowledged as the source; approved… U.S. Government work (public domain); USGS asks that it be acknowledged as the source; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-16 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-16-owner-hex-integrations)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NOAA NHC / CPHC tropical cyclone advisory GIS (active storms, wind swath, forecast wind radii, forecast cone) for live event response`noaa.nhc.advisory-gis`	www.nhc.noaa.gov	U.S. Government work (NOAA/NWS), public domain; not to be modified and presented as official… U.S. Government work (NOAA/NWS), public domain; not to be modified and presented as official government material; no endorsement implied; approved with conditions by the repository owner on 2026-10-16 (legal/registers/legal-approvals.yaml#LA-2026-10-16-owner-hex-integrations)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NASA FIRMS near-real-time active fire detections (area API, VIIRS / MODIS) for the Maps live fire layer`nasa.firms.area-active-fires`	firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov	NASA Earth science data and information policy (no restriction on use; citation requested);… NASA Earth science data and information policy (no restriction on use; citation requested); FIRMS transaction limits per MAP_KEY	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GTFS-Realtime vehicle positions from feeds registered by an administrator (per agency) for the Maps transit layer`gtfs-rt.tenant-registered-vehicle-positions`	gtfs.org	Per agency feed licence (recorded in the Geo Provider Registry licence acknowledgement note for each feed)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Fintraffic Digitraffic marine AIS positions and vessel metadata (Finnish AIS reporting area) for the Maps live vessel layer`fintraffic.digitraffic.marine-ais`	www.digitraffic.fi	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Fintraffic Digitraffic road weather camera stations and preset images for the Maps live traffic camera layer`fintraffic.digitraffic.road-weathercam`	www.digitraffic.fi	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
IGN LiDAR HD classified point clouds (France; COPC LAZ, Lambert-93, IGN69 heights)`ign.lidar-hd.point-clouds`	www.data.gouv.fr	etalab-2.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) LiDAR as Entwine Point Tiles (AWS Open Data, usgs-lidar-public)`usgs.3dep.ept`	registry.opendata.aws	LicenseRef-US-Government-Public-Domain	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland AHN5 point clouds (LAZ per map sheet, RD New + NAP, EPSG:7415)`ahn.ahn5.point-clouds`	www.ahn.nl	CC0-1.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Fields of the World global field boundaries (PRUE model predictions on Sentinel-2, GeoParquet partitioned by country)`ftw.global-field-boundaries`	source.coop	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Public GIS portal directory (US federal, 50 states + DC, cities, counties, regional bodies; HUB Ocean Ocean Data Platform)`gis-portal-directory`	platform/source-registry/gis-portal-directory.yaml	NOASSERTION	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
GTFS Schedule (static) transit feeds uploaded by a workspace or read from a registered agency feed URL, for the transit feed registry and transit plans`gtfs-static.tenant-registered-schedule-feeds`	gtfs.org	Per agency feed licence, declared by the registering tenant per feed version (SPDX id or terms… Per agency feed licence, declared by the registering tenant per feed version (SPDX id or terms URL) and recorded with its attribution text	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Open-Meteo weather and flood API data (forecast, archived forecasts, GloFAS river discharge)`open-meteo.weather-flood-data`	open-meteo.com	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`PROHIBITED`
NASA GIBS WMTS imagery (EPSG:4326) for the Water Nexus map`nasa.gibs.water-layers`	gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
GPM IMERG precipitation rate (daily and half-hourly, near real time) via NASA GIBS`nasa.gpm.imerg`	gpm.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
VIIRS near-real-time products via NASA GIBS: Global Flood Product (3-day), land surface temperature, NDSI snow cover, corrected reflectance`nasa.lance.viirs-water`	www.earthdata.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
SMAP Level 4 analysed soil moisture (surface, root zone) and snow mass via NASA GIBS`nasa.smap.l4`	nsidc.org	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
GHRSST MUR sea surface temperature anomaly (MUR25) and sea ice concentration (MUR) via NASA GIBS`nasa.podaac.ghrsst-mur`	podaac.jpl.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
GRACE and GRACE-FO JPL mascon liquid water equivalent thickness anomaly (monthly) via NASA GIBS`nasa.podaac.grace-fo-mascon`	grace.jpl.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
GLDAS Noah land surface model underground soil moisture (monthly) via NASA GIBS`nasa.gesdisc.gldas`	ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NASA Blue Marble shaded relief and bathymetry (static composite) via NASA GIBS`nasa.earth-observatory.blue-marble`	earthobservatory.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003 greyscale shaded relief via NASA GIBS`nasa-meti.aster-gdem-v3`	doi.org	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NASA GIBS WMTS imagery (EPSG:4326) for the Energy, Food, Health and Biodiversity Nexus maps`nasa.gibs.field-layers`	gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NASA GIBS reference layers (Coastlines, Reference_Features, Reference_Labels), OpenStreetMap-derived, EPSG:3857`nasa.gibs.reference-osm`	gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights (daily VNP46A2 gap-filled radiance; 2016 composite) via NASA GIBS`nasa.laads.black-marble`	blackmarble.gsfc.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
FIRMS VIIRS 375 m active fires and thermal anomalies (near real time, vector tiles) via NASA GIBS`nasa.lance.firms`	firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
MERRA-2 reanalysis monthly incident shortwave over land and dust surface PM2.5 via NASA GIBS`nasa.gmao.merra2`	gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
MODIS and VIIRS atmosphere products (aerosol optical depth, cloud fraction) via NASA GIBS`nasa.modis-viirs.atmosphere`	www.earthdata.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
MODIS land products (NDVI, EVI, gross primary production, IGBP land cover) via NASA GIBS`nasa.modis-viirs.land`	lpdaac.usgs.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OMI tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (Aura) and OMPS aerosol index (Suomi NPP) via NASA GIBS`nasa.gesdisc.aura-omi-omps`	disc.gsfc.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
MODIS Aqua ocean colour chlorophyll-a (Level 2) via NASA GIBS`nasa.obdaac.ocean-color`	oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
WRI Global Power Plant Database v1.3.0 (2021) for the Energy Nexus map`wri.global-power-plant-database`	datasets.wri.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
WRI Aqueduct 4.0 baseline water risk (2023 release) summarised to hexagons for the Water and Food Nexus maps`wri.aqueduct-4`	www.wri.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
SEDAC Gridded Population of the World v4.11 population density (2020) via NASA GIBS for the Health Nexus map`sedac.gpw-v4`	doi.org	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NASA GIBS WMTS imagery (EPSG:3857) for the live, observed and reference layers of the public context maps`nasa.gibs.context-live-layers`	gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NASA SEDAC settlement and urban heat layers via NASA GIBS (HBASE 2010, urban expansion to 2030, urban heat island 2013)`sedac.context-urban-layers`	gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenStreetMap-derived place names and borders rendered by NASA GIBS (Reference_Labels_15m)`osm.gibs-reference-labels`	gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Open-Meteo free API on the three non-profit public sites (forecast ensemble, air quality, flood, marine, ERA5 archive)`open-meteo.public-pages`	open-meteo.com	CC-BY-4.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`PROHIBITED`
NASA POWER daily point meteorology and solar data (public context maps)`nasa.power`	power.larc.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue (JSON and CSV feeds) for the Technology and Digital Systems faculty incident timeline`cisa.kev-catalogue`	www.cisa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map geocoded cable and landing-station data (not licensed; recorded so it is not used by accident)`telegeography.submarine-cable-map`	www.submarinecablemap.com	Underlying geocoded data: paid annual licence only ('With an annual license, you can use these… Underlying geocoded data: paid annual licence only ('With an annual license, you can use these data sets for interactive maps, data visualizations, and more', https://www2.telegeography.com/license-geocoded-map-data; 'Access to the underlying databases remains restricted to paying subscribers', https://www2.telegeography.com/cite-telegeography-map, both read 2026-10-17). Public map images: 'Any reference to a TeleGeography map, URL, or any related screen capture' is CC BY-SA 4.0 with credit; 'TeleGeography's interactive cable map is not an embeddable resource' (same page).	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
OpenStreetMap submarine and terrestrial communication cables (communication=line features), build-time extract for the Technology and Digital Systems faculty twin`osm.submarine-cables`	www.openstreetmap.org	ODbL-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
United Nations Treaty Collection (treaties.un.org): status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General and treaty membership (not admitted; UN terms)`un.treaty-collection`	treaties.un.org	Terms and Conditions of Use of United Nations Web Sites… Terms and Conditions of Use of United Nations Web Sites (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/terms-of-use, linked from the treaties.un.org footer, read 2026-10-17): permission to download and copy materials is 'for the User's personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell or redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom' without permission; UN copyright notice (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/copyright, read 2026-10-17): 'All rights reserved' and no material 'may be used, reproduced or transmitted ... except as provided for in the Terms and Conditions of Use of United Nations Web Sites, without permission in writing from the publisher'	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`PROHIBITED`
UNdata (United Nations Statistics Division data portal) series on the Risk Academy non-profit public pages`un.data.public-pages`	data.un.org	UNdata terms of use (https://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse, read 2026-10-17): 'All… UNdata terms of use (https://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=UNdataUse, read 2026-10-17): 'All data and metadata provided on UNdata's website are available free of charge' and 'may be copied freely, duplicated and further distributed provided that UNdata is cited as the reference'; no commercial or non-commercial distinction and no automated-access restriction stated on the page	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
NASA SEDAC Global Agricultural Lands: Croplands, 2000 (CIESIN_SEDAC_AGLANDS_CROP2000 v1.0) for the Systems and Nexus Studies faculty twin`sedac.aglands-croplands-2000`	doi.org	NASA CMR use constraints for the collection… NASA CMR use constraints for the collection (https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/collections.umm_json?keyword=Global%20Agricultural%20Lands%20Croplands%202000, read 2026-10-17): 'Users are free to use, copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without restriction, as long as clear attribution of the source is provided'; no LicenseURL or LicenseText field	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
USGS ShakeMap and PAGER event products (event detail GeoJSON, ShakeMap grid and MMI contours, PAGER alert level and exposure) on the Risk Academy non-profit public pages`usgs.shakemap-pager.public-pages`	earthquake.usgs.gov	U.S. Government work, public domain ('USGS-authored or produced data and information are… U.S. Government work, public domain ('USGS-authored or produced data and information are considered to be in the U.S. Public Domain'; 'When using information from USGS information products, publications, or websites, we ask that proper credit be given', https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits, read 2026-10-17)	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Terrain Tiles (Terrarium PNG, elevation-tiles-prod on the AWS Registry of Open Data) as the browser-direct 3D terrain and hillshade of the Risk Academy twin builders`aws.terrain-tiles.academy-public`	elevation-tiles-prod.s3.amazonaws.com	LicenseRef-Terrain-Tiles-Composite-Open	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
NASA GIBS WMTS imagery (EPSG:3857) for the raster studio of the Risk Academy twin builders: true colour, sea surface temperature, land surface temperature, snow, sea ice, aerosols, night lights, precipitation, root-zone soil moisture, monthly air temperature and terrestrial water storage`nasa.gibs.academy-engine-layers`	gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov	CC0-1.0	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) API (api.first.org) as a browser-direct input of the Risk Academy vulnerability triage generator`first.epss.academy-public`	api.first.org	LicenseRef-FIRST-EPSS-Free-Use	APPROVED_WITH_CONDITIONS	`ALLOWED`
OpenAlex scholarly graph (works, authors, institutions, sources, topics)`openalex.works`	openalex.org	CC0-1.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Crossref REST API (bibliographic metadata of registered works)`crossref.rest-api`	api.crossref.org	Bibliographic metadata, almost none of it subject to copyright, usable for any purpose; some… Bibliographic metadata, almost none of it subject to copyright, usable for any purpose; some abstracts may be subject to publisher or author copyright (crossref.org REST API documentation, read 2026-10-19)	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Wikidata structured data (Query Service and dumps)`wikidata.cc0`	www.wikidata.org	CC0-1.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) data via the Atmosphere Data Store`copernicus.cams.ads`	ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu	CC-BY-4.0	LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED	`LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED`

Idatha namalayisense

Indicators and domains

451 indicators NIS-1, izinhlanganisela eziyi-106, izinkomba zemikhakha eyi-20 GRIx indicator catalogue

CLIIsimo sezulu17 series
CONConflict10 series
FINEzezimali8 series
GOVUkubusa17 series
HAZIzingozi13 series
INFIngqalasizinda16 series
CRSCrisis7 series
CYBI-inthanethi19 series
DEMDemography6 series
ECOUmnotho13 series
ENEAmandla13 series
ENVImvelo11 series
FISFiscal7 series
FOOUkudla10 series
HLTImpilo12 series
MACMacro6 series
SOCUmphakathi12 series
SPCSpace5 series
TECUbuchwepheshe26 series
WATAmanzi10 series

Izinkomba zemikhakha eyi-20

GRIx Climate physical hazard indexNXS-GRX-AR-000112
GRIx Climate transition exposure indexNXS-GRX-AR-000113
GRIx Conflict risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000114
GRIx Lack of coping capacity indexNXS-GRX-AR-000115
GRIx Cyber risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000116
GRIx Displacement pressure indexNXS-GRX-AR-000117
GRIx External dependence risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000118
GRIx Energy security risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000119
GRIx Environmental pressure indexNXS-GRX-AR-000120
GRIx Financial stability risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000121
GRIx Fiscal and public debt risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000122
GRIx Food insecurity risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000123
GRIx Governance weakness indexNXS-GRX-AR-000124
GRIx Multi-hazard exposure indexNXS-GRX-AR-000125
GRIx Health security risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000126
GRIx Infrastructure fragility indexNXS-GRX-AR-000127
GRIx Socio-economic vulnerability indexNXS-GRX-AR-000128
GRIx Space-weather exposure indexNXS-GRX-AR-000129
GRIx Technology concentration risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000130
GRIx Water security risk indexNXS-GRX-AR-000131

Nexus Standards

NRS-A5Built-in licensing and rightsLicensing: deny by default; withheld values are counted.
NRS-A7Accessibility, plain language and translation of standardsAccessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA on every page and figure.
NRS-C1Risk vocabulary and ontologyVocabulary and ontology: NIS-1 indicators and NHS-1 hazards as the native terms.
NRS-C4Risk data model, identifiers and exchangeRisk records, identifiers and exchange: UNIs, observation keys, SDMX-compatible series.
NRS-C8Evidence, uncertainty and provenanceEvery value carries its evidence class, interval and provenance; missing is never zero.
NRS-C12Risk disclosure and reportingDisclosure and reporting: method versions, release notes, the correction log.
NRS-C13Risk indicators and composite indicesConstruction of every index: normalisation, weighting, aggregation, sensitivity and uncertainty (OECD/JRC handbook).
NRS-I2Risk communication and public-safe dashboardsRisk communication and public-safe dashboards: classes with probabilities, no league tables.
NRS-I3Model and data cards for riskModel and data cards for every model version and dataset.
NRS-M22Method fabric: Risk dataRisk data: licence-gated sources, harmonisation, quality dimensions.
NRS-M23Method fabric: Scientific assuranceScientific assurance: validation, verification scorecards, replication packs.
NRS-S6System profile: GRIx (Canonical data, provenance and risk)The GRIx system profile: canonical data, provenance and risk.

Nexus Standards

Izimpawu zamazwe

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Country profiles · the world

Iphrofayili yezwe ngayinye ineminye umthombo nelayisense lenani ngalinye. Lungisa inani noma uphendule · all country profiles

Izizinda zezingozi

905 hazards NHS-1, ehlanganiswe ne-UNDRR-ISC HIPs GRIx hazards

Umkhathi nesimo sezulu54 hazards · 8 families · 289 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000135
Umhlaba Oqinile47 hazards · 6 families · 190 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000138
Izehlakalo zesistimu nezihlangene47 hazards · 4 families · 257 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000148
Water systems41 hazards · 5 families · 318 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000136
Ice and snow18 hazards · 3 families · 59 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000137
Space and near-Earth17 hazards · 2 families · 54 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000139
Land and ecosystems39 hazards · 6 families · 207 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000140
Planetary boundaries and Earth-system tipping58 hazards · 7 families · 134 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000141
Pollution and hazardous substances63 hazards · 9 families · 207 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000142
Impilo nokuvikelwa kwezinto eziphilayo124 hazards · 21 families · 260 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000143
Built systems110 hazards · 13 families · 371 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000144
Information and cyber-physical systems48 hazards · 6 families · 127 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000145
Frontier and exponential technology109 hazards · 16 families · 186 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000146
Society, conflict and economy130 hazards · 14 families · 389 expert relationsNXS-GRX-AR-000147

Idatha yendawo ne-API

I-API yomphakathi not live

/api/v1/public/grixhttps://risksindex.com/api/v1/public/grix

Abathuthukisi · Idatha · Nikela

api.risksindex.com not live

UNI NS-1

NXS-<SCOPE>-<CAT>[-<DOMAIN>][-<SECTOR>][-<REGION>][-<ENV>]-<SERIAL>[@<VERSION>]https://nexustandards.com/uni/{uni}

UNIs are allocated by the Nexus Standards catalogue (NS1-R2), never typed by hand.

Maps and basemaps
- Imephu ye-Risk Observatorylivevulekile
- Self-hosted vector basemapgatedpublic
- Terrain and elevationgatedpublic
- Administrative boundariestestedplatform
Vector tiles
- GRIx risk product tilestestedpublic
- Tenant risk product tilestestedenterprise
- Hexagon lens tilestestedplatform
- Tile enginesgatedplatform
Raster and imagery
- Satellite imagery overlaysgatedvulekile
- Cloud-optimised raster tilesgatedplatform
- STAC mosaic tilesgatedplatform
- Earth-observation datacubestestedplatform
Catalogues and standard APIs
- STAC APIbuiltplatform
- OGC API Processesbuiltplatform
- OGC API DGGSbuiltplatform
- 3D Tiles and point cloudsgatedplatform
Spatial science and GeoAI
- Exposure on H3 cellstestedenterprise
- Geostatistical interpolationtestedenterprise
- Spatial autocorrelationbuiltenterprise
- Spatially blocked validationtestedenterprise
- Conflict exposure on H3 cellsbuiltenterprise
- Change detection from imagerytestedplatform
- GeoAI labellingbuiltplatform
- Earth-observation foundation modelsgatedplatform
- Spatial risk fieldsbuiltplatform
Live feeds and nowcasting
- Natural eventsgatedvulekile
- Earthquakesgatedvulekile
- Precipitation and cloud nowcast imagerygatedvulekile
- Nowcasting modelsplannedenterprise

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Natural events (NASA EONET)NASA EONET · 1 h
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Institutional Funds Nexus: Izikhwama Zezikhungo

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June 9, 20261 min read
From Asset Allocation to Beneficiary Resilience: Why Institutional Funds Nexus Connects Long-Horizon Capital, Mission Continuity, and Systems Intelligence
Pension funds exist to meet obligations to beneficiaries across decades. Endowments exist to support universities, hospitals, research institutions, cultural bodies, and public-interest missions across generations. Foundations exist to sustain philanthropic missions while funding social, scientific, community, environmental, educational, and humanitarian…
June 9, 20261 min read
Introducing Institutional Funds Nexus: The Long-Horizon Capital Platform for Pension Funds, Endowments, Foundations, Sovereign Funds, and Systemic Resilience
Institutional funds are among the most important long-term capital stewards in the global economy.

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Institutional Funds Nexus: Izikhwama Zezikhungo

Institutional Funds Nexus in seven parts.

Long promises, uncertain worlds.

Asset-liability console.

Asset-liability console

Funding ratio projection

Collateral waterfall

The questions this field works on.

Pension system resilience

Long-term risk

Asset-liability management

Liquidity and private assets

Fiduciary governance

Institutional concentration

Stewardship and sustainability

Intergenerational equity

Transition and physical risk on a portfolio.

Izindlela

Idatha

What the work is read against.

Trace a shock in Institutional Funds Nexus to the balance sheet.

What Institutional Funds Nexus does.

Its community

Its methods

Its outputs

What Institutional Funds Nexus means for exposure, loss and capital.

Transmission channels

Scenario pathways

Shared understanding, never advice.

Stress, exposure and governance

Research and guides

Who it is for

Assets on the grid, and the portfolio they make.

Grounded in method, linked to science and governance.

The areas of capital markets and investment this platform takes on.

Pension system resilience

Long-horizon risk

Asset liability management

Liquidity and private assets

Fiduciary governance

Institutional concentration

Stewardship and sustainability

Intergenerational equity

Built on named science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

How work moves in this field.

How this works across the six pillars.

Handoffs in play

The same field, seen three ways.

Pages in Institutional Funds Nexus.

Industry scope and publisher

Financial discipline overview

Professional research

Technology and emerging practices

Resilience and finance readiness

Research and industry programmes

Analytical and data resources

Professional community

Ukufunda kochwepheshe

Professional meetings

Reports and sector briefs

Membership and research participation

Contact the industry platform

Antitrust, independence and financial perimeter

STEM foundation of Institutional Funds Nexus

How work moves in this field

Build in Foundry

Test in Universe

Publish in Reports

The same field across the Consortium

Topics

Where this page leads across the Consortium.

Questions and answers.

Nikela ngobufakazi kusuka kuleli khasi.

How Institutional Funds Nexus works.

How Institutional Funds Nexus works

How Institutional Funds Nexus works

01 Scope

02 Evidence

03 Work

04 Publish