Global Risk Assessment Framework

The Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) aims to improve the understanding and management of current and future risks, at all scales, to better manage uncertainties and mobilize people, innovation and finance by: a) fostering interdisciplinary systems thinking with shared metrics and understanding and, b) enabling the identification of anomalies and precursor signals, as well as the correlations and dependencies of risks and actors to enable decision makers to act. Through actionable insights, tools and demonstrations at relevant scales to decision makers on a timely basis, the GRAF can build collective intelligence to steer societies towards an enhanced understanding and management of risk in all its dimensions, thereby realizing the goals and outcomes of the 2030 Agenda, the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement and the New Urban Agenda.

Moderator:

Gabriela Guimarães Nobre, Representative of the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth

Speakers:

David Green, Program Manager Disaster Applications for National Aeronautics and Space Administration United States of America

Renato U. Solidum Jr., Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Philippines

Kirsten Dunlop, Chief Executive Officer Climate-KIC

Kathy Baughman McLeod, Senior Vice President Bank of America

Aromar Revi, Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements; and Co-Chair, UNSDSN