Readiness dossiers
Evidence for a financial decision is often scattered and its status unclear. A readiness dossier from The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) assembles the required fields, source evidence, status and open questions in one versioned document for independent review. It states fitness for a stated next step, within a stated scope and evidence state. It is never an approval, a rating, a certificate or an offer, and it is released only at the programme owner's written direction. It is the core output of Finance and insurance readiness.
- 01InstitutionThe Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
- 02Service levelR0: information and enquiries
- 03In briefThe short answer
- 04Required fieldsWhat every dossier is designed to contain
- 05Data standardFields every spatial exposure record carries
- 06AlignmentBuilt to be read against disclosure and supervisory templates
- 07The readiness ladderEach rung is a record, not a grade
GRA · Institution · service level R0
The short answer.
A GRA readiness dossier assembles the required fields, source evidence, status and open questions for a programme in one versioned document for independent review. It states fitness for a stated next step within a stated scope and evidence state, and it is never an approval, rating, certificate or offer.
Financial centres and urban exposure in World.
The cities where people, assets and financial activity concentrate, shown for World as an example geography for this subject.
What every dossier is designed to contain.
| Field | What it records |
|---|---|
| Next step and scope | The decision the dossier prepares for, and what is out of scope |
| Owner | The accountable programme owner, and the reviewer the owner names |
| Evidence register | Each source with its owner, date, licence and evidence label |
| Scenarios | The scenarios compared, with assumptions and what was not tested |
| Safeguards register | Environmental, social, legal, anti-corruption, data-rights and scientific-integrity questions, each with an owner |
| Diligence-question register | What a competent institution would still need to know |
| Version and corrections | The version history and every correction |
Fields every spatial exposure record carries.
| Field | Why a reviewer needs it |
|---|---|
| Location and geometry with coordinate reference | Exposure joins are only as good as geocoding; point, footprint or administrative-area precision changes the result |
| Asset or contract identifier, with LEI where an entity exists | Lets the reviewer reconcile to its own books without GRA holding them |
| Hazard layer, version and return period | Different vintages of a flood map give different exposure |
| Vulnerability function and its source | Damage curves are the largest single source of model uncertainty in many perils |
| Evidence label for every value | OBSERVED, OFFICIAL, MODELLED, ESTIMATED or UNKNOWN, never mixed in one number |
| Licence and data owner | Whether the reviewer may reuse the layer |
Built to be read against disclosure and supervisory templates.
Dossier fields are chosen so that they map to what a reviewer must later report: physical and transition exposure tables in the BCBS voluntary climate disclosure framework, financed emissions under PCAF and IFRS S2, and risk management information under the IAIS climate application paper. The dossier itself is not a disclosure. Method notes sit at GRA research methods; data provenance standards at GCRI spatial-temporal evidence.
Each rung is a record, not a grade.
- 01
Evidence assembled
Every source carries one label: observed, officially reported, institution-reported, estimated, modelled, forecast, scenario, expert judgement or unknown.
- 02
Scenarios compared
The range across scenarios is shown, not a single number.
- 03
Safeguards checked
Each open safeguard question has an owner.
- 04
Diligence questions registered
What remains unknown is listed openly for the receiving institution.
- 05
Release for independent review
At the programme owner's written direction, a competent party receives the dossier and decides under its own authority. GRA's role ends here.
A dossier climbs only as far as its evidence allows. A rung not reached is shown as not reached, and the reason is written down.
Who owns what.
Yours
You keep your background rights and your data. GRA uses data only within the rights you grant.
By permission
Publication of any finding follows review and permission; confidential data is never shared with another member or participant.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Readiness file | A document set describing a programme's evidence, risks, governance and data so that a competent institution can carry out its own independent review; it is not an approval, rating or offer of finance. |
| Evidence label | A tag naming the kind of evidence, such as observed or modelled, that should survive every summary. |
| Version of record | The fixed version of a work that a publisher formally declares published; later changes appear as dated corrections or new versions, never as silent edits, in the sense NISO's journal article versions recommendation uses. |
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
- BCBS voluntary framework for disclosure of climate-related financial risks (June 2025)
- PCAF Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard, Part A financed emissions, third edition (December 2025)
- IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 (ISSB), with the December 2025 targeted amendments to IFRS S2 GHG requirements (effective 2027)
- IAIS Application Paper on the supervision of climate-related risks in the insurance sector (April 2025)
- GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier data
Questions and answers.
Does a readiness dossier mean a project can be financed or insured?
Can a dossier fail?
How is a dossier different from a rating?
Around GRA.
Start with an enquiry.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. 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.